i didn’t know i was that inspirational… ey, wenky, u blur ah…. sms me abt lunch when i was a gadzillion miles away from TTSH. how are you anyway?
anecdotes…
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there’s a doc in blah-blah hospital who took grand ward round (a total of 34 patients) without referring to any notes or case files!
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Trauma round:
(HO puts up an x-ray)
HO: xx year old man involved in RTA, xray shows a comminuted proximal tibial fracture.
Head-of-dpt: what is this fracture?
MO: unstable comminuted proximal tibial fracture.
HOD: no, no what is the NAME of this fracture?
medical student (whispers>: bumper?
HOD (to other MOs): what is this fracture? don’t so cheem lah!
Reg (trying to be funny): broken bone…
second medical student (whispers): bumper fracture…
HOD: what is the mechanism?
Reg: bumper fracture!!!
another doc: ey, nowadays all saab mah… where got so low?
HOD: so we can deduce wat? this is a jap model lah!
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HO: middle-aged year old man fell from a height of 5 storeys while picking mangoes…
entire group @ trauma round (taken aback, pauses, then everyone starts asking…): what mango tree? 5 storeys?!!
HO: yeah, he insisted…
doc: luckily he’s not a pilot, real problem with depth perception manz…
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