I remeber mentioning that i will be going for this program... shortform PPKSD... and today.. i went!!! Strange.... I didn't felt as excited as before, on the other hand, i was worried.... no idea why.. hahhaa
So, as early as 8 am i mum sent me to the hospital.. It took us quite some time to find a parking in the public parking zone..... we went from one to anaother... but lady luck did not shine on us.....
Since mum's car has a HSA sticker, we tried the staff parking zone... the one mum used to parked her car when dhe goes to work..... We were lucky.... there were two parking lots there!!! hahaha.. should have gone there sooner....
After that, mum brought me to the ward where she worked.... A4 NICU.... although she's not working today.... she thought that the ward's sister might know something about this program and so she wanted to ask the sister where is the actual gathering place.....(as i had mentioned before that we were not informed of where we should go).... Thank God.... sister Kalsom was involved in this program too....!! So, i tailed her right from A4 to the PGMC (the meeting point)
After the registration, i went into the hall....as expected, we were supposed to wear a doggy tag...although i got kumpulan 2 but that wasn't the real placing..... i was later placed in Kumpulan 4....It was supposed to start at 9am... but it started 20 minutes later...
The timbalan director, Dr. Izan gave a short and boring speech....luckily there was a powerpoint presentation during the speech.... otherwise, i would have gone fishing.... judging by the fact that i slept late last night.... haha....ya.. by the way, ming keat went too.... saw him there.
So after the speech, the person in charge, Pn Salmah... divided us into groups.... there were altogether 74 people taking part in this program and we were divided into 7 different groups. So, as mentioned i was in Group 4 and we have 9 people in a group. 3 boys and obviously, 6 girls....haha
Before going for this program, i heard from the previous years participants that they actually visited the mortuary, labour room and so on... unfortunately, our group got all the boring units.... today was the surgical ward, male and female..... tomorrow the opthalmology department and A&E (most interested in).... wednesday, Plastic surgery ward and Wad timur5 kanak-kanak.... thursday, urology and wad pp1 and pp3 and finally friday, A&E again!!! Plus, we will also have to go on-call like real doctors do..... mine's tomorrow at the A&E.... wonder how's it like??? hahhaa luckily there will be 2 visits to the A&E otherwise, the whole programe will be super duper BORING!!!!!
Guess what we'd done today to the extend that i'll have to say that it's boring, lame or anything...
We went to the surgical ward, listen to Sister Enchon's explanation about the various wards in the surgical unit... as far as i can remember, there's the urology, neurology, plastic surgery .... these wards are divided into male and female.... and there's a children ward on the next floor.. Later, we were brought to the palliative care unit, although that's not under our list..... here's where the end stage cancer patients are... so poor thing, i can hear a patient crying out: aiyo aiyo constantly..... pity them....
So, after the brief visitation the 9 of us were divided into groups of 5 and 4.... i'm in the 5 -person group... and we were supposed to go to the male surgical ward.....apalah... so its the 3 boys and 2 of us girls hhahah.... but still, we carried on.... hahaa.... This program was supposed to expose us to the doctor's life in a hospital.... along the way, the sister asked some of the MO and Houseman to give us 'bakal' doctor some advice.... and you know what??? their advice were dicouraging..... like change your choice lah, have to make a lot of sacrifices lah (love life, society, and even family) and they even added that life as a houseman is going to be very terrible... 36 hours non stop of working...... it was also described as a labourer's job but theearnings of a bussinessman and blah blah blah
After that, the sister brought us to see a patient.... he's just had his spleen cut off..... we were told that he went 'rempit'-ing and met an accident.... so.....it's broken limbs plus an injured spleen.... so, they'd to cut off his spleen..... the spleen,produces red blood cells, thus, now he can only depend on his bone marrow lah...that's what the sister told us....and then we were allowed to see the patients' records... there was this 15 years old boy, also met an accident... for the same reason..... we were shocked to see his records.... there were words like alcohol, and smoking!!! at such a young age....+ the rempit thing... wah sei!!!
But, i didn't bother to read all of them..... the words are just tooooo smalll!!! Plus the doctors' handwriting were soooo 'artistic' that i can't decipher what they were writing.... haha hope that i don't become 1 of them....
Finally, after what seems like ages, we went for lunch at the cafeteria....
Guess what happened next..... while i was entering the cafeteria door, i was so deep in thoughts that i didn't realise that the floor wasn't flat..... and so..... i trip..... hhahaha... but lucky that i didn't fall down.... and there were quite a number of people walking in this direction... how embarasing!!!! Luckily i was in time to save myself..... thank God!! Otherwise i would have fall flat on my empty tummy!!!! Haiyo, enough of this part already.....hahaha
Next, went to the basement of Block A to sit while we waited for 2pm..... here's where i used to go when i was small.... remember those times when i come here with mum.... haha long story.....
Went back to where we came from--surgical ward... this time the 5 of us were supposed to go to the female ward but... the sister needs to attend a meeting.... so we again went back to the male ward....as the sister needed to attend a meeting too, she asked us to follow the doctors there and observe them when they are carrying out procedures.... i watched, but we were like 'flower pots' standing in their way, affecting their work.... haiz... i felt bad...mipo
But, still we had no choice but to stay on, otherwise we won't be able to get our scholarships....
Finally, we were allowed to go back home...
Tommorow.... will be a long day..... 8.30am till 10 pm... but again the A&E sounds interesting... that's where i want to be when i become a doctor in future... wonder will i change my mind after tommorow.... maybe, maybe not..... haha
Got to sleep early... today's been a tiring day for me.... stood on my feet most of the time... and now 'they' are starting to complain already.... hahaha
ok.... nitez.....GB
