Friday, March 28, 2008
Its been a while not in college, have to attend a course by the government in general hospital in my hometown. Learn a lot of things during the 5 days.
First day, we were gathered in a meeting room, and they gave us some briefing about the programme, something about the hospital, safety precaution, bla bla bla......., all those normal speech u know. 25 ppl, only 6 chinese, other all malays. We were divided into 4 groups, each group 6 to 7 ppl. I was placed into Group 2 and our group was sent to O&G ward. We met a houseman doctor, Dr. Kevin, and he STRONGLY discourage us to become a doctor lol. Well according to him, doctor is hell, u get crap pay, get scoldings from the bosses, even the nurses can scold u, need to endure flying files and all that. Well, in short, don't be a doctor.
Second day, we were in the A&E department(accident & emergency). We were quite lucky as that day had a lot of emergency cases, accidents, stroke, heart attack and so on. Learn something about how to treat some emergency cases. After that, we went to the mortuary. No bodies, but they showed us some video how they do the postmortem thingy. One of the video was about a suicide case, they cut open the body, separate the skin from the flesh, tear the flesh apart, break open the sternum and pull every single organ out@@ U can see the body lying there but with nothing inside, only the backbone and the rib cage......
Third day, we went to the orthopedic department(all the bone thingy). Basically is just to sit in the clinic(4 doctors in a room) and see how they treat the patient and all that. When they are free, they will brainwash us, same thing again, not to be a doctor, don waste ur talent, don waste ur time and all that....... 10.30, we switched to the ENT department, again the same thing happen again.........
Fourth day, we went back to O&G department again~~ see Dr. Kevin again~~ But for me and 2 of the malays, we are the fortunate one. That afternoon, we were placed in the delivery department. Well we were not suppose to see someone to deliver as it is something to do with privacy and all that. So our group just sat there and do nothing. One case where a newborn baby has been ECG flat for 4 minutes(no heart beating for 4 minutes), the doctor doing the procedure still act like nothing happened, still can tell jokes with the nurses@@ dunno what is in her mind but at last the baby is saved...... 30 minutes before we gathered in the meeting room again, got one lady wan to deliver a baby, and at that time, no doctors were around and the staff nurse just came out from the room, tell us we can see the process but only 3 is allowed, so 3 of us went in, the 3 other group members can only wait outside, felt little bit sorry for them. The process was quite interesting, but for girls........ If they see the process, i bet they will not wan to deliver a baby in the natural way......
Fifth day, the most boring day...... Went to the wards, to see the patients for the whole morning(actually we were sitting in the reading corner and was sleeping LOL). In the afternoon, we were gathered again in the meeting room, then some briefing again, some talk, then the closing of the programme. And everyone of us got a cert for the programme.
This is one of the photo taken during the 5 days, and because of this, some patients and nurses called me DOCTOR LOL!!!
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Love this song, quite meaningful, listen closely to the lyric
