Woke up 5 minutes earlier today.... i couldn't bear to leave my comfy mattress, blankie, pillows and bolster....they seemed to be pulling me back to bed..... but, i knew i had to get up....
Had two pieces of bread for breakfast, then got ready to go out, embarking on my second day in HSA. As early as 7.55 am, daddy drove me to the hospital. I was earlier by 30 minutes to the time we were supposed to meet. hahaa as usual.... It's always better to be early rather than late...right???
Since i was early, i took a stroll to the policlinic, a distance away from our meeting point.. btw, we were supposed to meet at 2nd floor of the east wing. So, i walked.... saw one of our group members there, his name is chong hong... (or something like that).. hahaa... blur me.... next time i'll be going around and say: that who lor or that guy/ girl lah.... those kind of stuff... i'm never good at remembering names..... hhahaa...
Went to the poliklinik.... look see look see a bit.....there were many people there....and i walked around, appreciating every corner of that place.... hahaa (like real) hhaha..... after that, i went to the meeting point.. i don't want to be late, you know... haha
After that, the whole group of us were supposed to go to the poliklinik.... the opthalmology clinic....i have no idea how they arranged things, but unfortunately, the opthalmology clinic was closed, they only handle emergency cases today. So, we went to the surgical clinic instead... 3 of us in a group went into a clinical room... there were two doctors in there.. a guy and a lady..... and they were kind of friendly, much to my relief. They asked us why we want to become doctors?? and again told us that it isn't easy being a doctor.... even though they are surgeons, they also had a busy and hectic life...... tried to make us change our decision... but obviously, things like this won't make me change my mind.... i like to busy, the best is that i can worked the whole day, 'rocking' around the clock hahhahha....but it's just that my body wouldn't be able to take it.... my heart will start to complain.... and my limbs will go on a stike... haiz...
Anyway, this was very much better than yesterday's idling aroung, hanging around and blocking other people's way.... hahha
After lunch, we proceed to the A&E department... haha.... had been anticipating for this moment to arrive. Wah!! There's a major change ever since the last time i came in....want to know why?? Because it's all air-conditioned... haha so cold inside there..like it!! In other wards only the ICUs have air con.... but here, it's all air conditioned!! Iiyo!!
Tuan Hj Ismail brought us to the seminar room for a short briefing, then another staff brought us round the whole A&E... The A&E is divided into the green zone (minor cases), yellow zone (semi-critical) and red zone (critical) and a blue zone.
Everything is happening in the red zone... haha.. also known as the resuscitation room. Here, the criticallly ill patients were stabilised before they were sent into the wards... there was this male patient who got involved in an accident. he would've suffer from fractured legs as a result but because he did not buckled his helmet properly, his head was injured during the accident.... it ended up his wound needed to be stitched back... but i missed this part... Because there were many people there, mostly people like us... haha, i gladly gave them the opportunity to see lah.... afterall i'd been through this many many years before...
After that there was a patient sent in for SVT- superventricular tachycardia....her heartbeat was so fast (as shown on the monitor)... plus the fact that she was allergic to adenosine which make things worse for her, so the doctors had to use another alternative method to slow down her heartbeat... i don't know what is it call..... hhaha
Meanwhile, there was this poor little boy being sent in. He was riding a motorbike together with his father.... met an accident when his father tried to dodge an incoming car...then he fell into the drain... at that time, he was heading to agama school....so, he was seriously injured.... somewhere near his right knee.... that layer of flesh was peeled off till we can see the bones inside... when the doctor lifted his leg, it seems like this leg is going to be broken into 2 parts if he didn't handle it well....and this poor boy was like... sakit doktor.. sakit!! and it seems like he kept wanting to see his injury, because i heard the doctors kept telling him to lie down, don't see aftwerwards vomit and blah blah blah....i shan't elaborate about this part.....hahha...
After this there weren't many cases anymore.... we went to the seminar room and started chatting away... there were 9 of us but only 2 girls did the talking... Manjula and another girl, i forgot her name, again... haha... but she's a Kaur lah.. the only thing i know about her. they told us about all their embarrasing moments... we laughed and laughed....but when they asked the rest of us to say something, we just kept quiet. My reason: i thought that my jokes weren't as interesting as theirs and i might just make the room even 'colder'.... so it's better if i'd just shut up.... hahha
Tonight, stayed on for the on-call. Had dinner at the kafeteria.... 3 doughnuts hahaha
Went back to A&E, there was a patient with i think its heart attack and another one i don't know... an indian lady was sent in because she had attempted suicide..... that's the only things that happened.. sensing that the doctors would be better off without us, we again went and sit in the seminar room again!! Started chatting again.. or maybe its listening hahahha
Ok, that's it for today... tomorrow we have plastic surgery clinic and the Timur 5 children ward..it's going to be another boring day.... haiz... but overall, today's program was not bad, had a great time today, especially getting to know my group members better....
Nitez, god bless!!:)
