medical round
the usual rounds where a group of docs fly from bed to bed in the wee hours of the morning, pulling this trolley of files with them. at surgical/ortho rounds, the most senior usually barks out orders at top speed while the poor plankton aka HO scribbles them down… common questions heard are: any pain? no pain? can go home? what antibiotic is the patient on? in medical rounds, a smaller group of docs shuffle from bed to bed, carrying thicker files, the entire group scrutinises the endless list of medical problems. common questions heard include: what antibiotic is the patient on? what is his potassium? trace blood culture!
screening round
a new term coined specially for this (medical) posting. it involves a group of frantic shifting dullness touring the wards, hounding HOs and colleagues for cases that can be used for tutorial with ‘edna mode’. cases must satisfy the following criteria:
1. pt agreeable to being examined for tutorial
2. pt will be in bed at the time of examination
3. at least one student must have examined him/her already and signs should be present, and preferably correlate well with each other.
food round
applies more to the guys in my group. no food means that kandy will need 40mls D50%, sue-anne will moan about being hungry… it’s also fondly known as the ‘nutrition round’ (first time i heard it, i thought they were going to round with the TPN team!). Irene is the overall in-charge.
kopi round
this is very commonly seen and heard. i din use to do that until i started medicine sip. haha… my HO, whose name incidentally sounds a lot like mine, loves her kopi rounds. :) it’s this 15min break where we run down to get some kopi to keep ourselves awake for the rest of the day!
corridor round
one consultant in a certain hospital is well-known for this sentence:
“What are you all doing? Is this a corridor round?”
When you hear this, please pretend to look extremely busy, like you’re trying to find your tendon tapper or else pretend you haven’t really heard him and head towards the nearest patient to clerk/examine, or else you’ll really get it from that consultant. i had a narrow escape. phew!
eye exercise
most guys do this. it’s like usually at work they all got only one-track mind, but in the wards or library, they suddenly develop a heightened peripheral vision, and their extraocular muscles work OT trying to take in the sights of all the girls around them. some even appear to have ‘eyes at the back of their head’. others, like Boss, are more tech-savvy and have long installed a radar for this purpose. Well, detecting is one thing, but targetting with success is another. ;)
