And so it was the fateful day where our dpt has the grand ward round…
We thought that the HO/MO would be leading the round, but guess what, our consultant… let’s call him DBC bellows… ‘ok, who is incharge of this patient?’ (in a sing-song accent)… the HO/MO start to speak but… they get stopped by DBC who then looks around for…
‘AHHH, you two are here! who knows about this patient? quick tell us about him!’
R and I were like deer caught in headlights… but luckily, we have been busy bees in the ward, copying down all the histories and tracing results… heng…
But still it was scary presenting in front of the entire group, which included…
the shuai4 one who took me for my med end-of-posting exam… *smiles* he’s back to his shuai4 look!
the TALL one who towered over EW and ahleong during their end-of-posting exam (thankfully, he mainly skulked in one corner and tried to look nice)
and a myraid of other pple i knew nothing of but looked equally serious…
So it went… one patient after another, and us steadily feeling more and more useless and getting confused by numbers and wondering who got which sided lesion…
I so regret doing the HD area… -_- at last count before i left, the HD was FULL!
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on a happier tone, i absolutely adore this dpt that i’ve been posted to. Hope to enjoy the rest of the 6 weeks with them… though, next month, we’re changing consultants and um…. pls not let it be TALL-towering guy… *gulp* the current consultant really takes effort to teach us a bit at every patient’s bedside, practical things like maintaining INRs, which drugs to look out for… the nurses have been pretty kind to us, and treat us quite humanely haha… the HO is FANTASTIC! i think she’s really ‘powerful’! and despite being busy, she takes the effort to go through all the important things like how to write case notes/summaries/referrals/memos/IMRs/fill up forms, and practical stuff like meds, ICS…
the team also makes an attempt to get us welcome… like they make us have breakfast/tea with them… and the HO/MO always makes sure that we have our lunch with them… :)
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the only grouch i have is that i have NO TIME TO STUDY!!! and no time to properly clerk my own patients or to give them full exams!!! i must start doing that next wk… maybe come earlier to examine them first then go trace results…
today, the consultant asked me to explain INO and the MLF and PPRF and watnots… and i just grimaced… OMG…. it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo embarrassing!
and i am too tired now to understand / absorb all the crossing pathways in our brainstem!
