this is my second call, and apparently, the PAO incident has spread like wildfire throughout the ranks of the plankton (ie. HOs) in the medical side anyway… I hope it doesn’t spread over to surg and ortho and worse, GASP, even paeds! hahaha…
so i was like innocently, feeling pretty bloated that day before my 1st call and decided to get, of all things, a chicken bao for dinner…
LNQ: i absolutely FORBID you to eat that bao!
me: er…
LNQ: cannot la, last time i ate bao, i had FOUR collapses! my staff nurse ate bao she also had collapses! my frd ate bao also had collapses!!! cannot eat, quick quick, take that thing away! (hahaha)
me: ok… (walks back to the auntie at the bao shop) auntie ah, my HO say hor cannot eat BAO on call leh…
auntie: ya, that’s why i dunno why you go buy bao…
me: auntie, u never tell me la…
auntie: aiya, i dunno mah, dun dare to anyhow say, later *touchwood* how?
me: ok… can change to something else, as long as it’s not bao?
auntie: ok ok… can can… (this auntie’s v nice)
yeah and today is the second call and HW said: OH you were the medical student that bought the bao huh… waaa we were all wondering who it was! haha so it was you!!!
yay. i made history.
[and for the record, just to explain to those who dunno what’s going on, there are some taboos on calls… ]
1. NEVER EAT A BAO ON CALL
because bao means ‘da bao’ which means to wrap up er.. dead body u know…
2. MUST CHANGE YR UNDERWEAR
the HO on my second call was practically laffing and yelling out in the kopitiam that she ‘did not change her underwear’, drawing scandalous looks from this ah pek in front of us in the queue…
3. DON’T SAY :WAA, TONITE I ONLY HAVE FOUR ADMISSIONS LEH.
because then at 7am you’ll have a whole chain of admissions because the emergency dpt pple suddenly felt very awake and itchy fingers and just HAD to admit some patients to keep you busy. (a bit like how they ‘tekan’ so many HOs by admitting numerous patients around 530-6pm. hrmph.
