Was too busy finishing off my HO year with a big bang, what with EOD and EEODs… I’d totally gone numb from doing calls. And now, I AM numb from calls or the post-call like feeling. Have finally started my long awaited posting (but not with loads of trepidation) at the A&E and gasp! I feel post call almost every-other-day!
It’s a very different sort of feeling, being an MO. Apart from the mountain of responsibilities that you’re suddenly expected to bear, somehow you’re expected to know how to do lumps and bumps, to make decisions, to take ownership… I guess I’m just super lacking in confidence in my own judgment. (which really, I’m not the best person to make decisions) I think it’s helping that I’m in A&E so we all like take charge of our own patients, and got to have a clear management plan before clearing the case with seniors.
It’s still too early to comment about my new job scope, cuz I haven’t got rostered into resus yet. *Heavens, just thinking of it makes my knees go weak!* (haha…) Not like drool who’s almost ‘lao jiao’, every other minute I hear the PA system go: Dr XXXXXX Dr XXXXXX to resus now!
What I like about A&E so far is that the cases are almost entirely FRESH! I’m the first to see and clerk them! It’s a good revision of medical school and a good way to test my clinical acumen!
