Round And Round We Go
Life is an endless series of rounds.
This downward spiral (pardon the pun) is detrimental to members of my team. Here's how :
- my FEET hurt - even Clarks and Hush Puppies can't save me
- my THROAT hurts - from repetitive case presentations
- my HOUSE OFFICER hurts - from scribbling what is essentially the same information over and over in the patient's notes
- my PATIENT hurts - how many times does an abdomen need to be palpated?
- my NURSE hurts - HO says to turn off the oxygen, MO says to put it back, specialist says to change to oral antibiotic and remove IV cannula, consultant says to continue with IV. Huh?
- the ENVIRONMENT hurts - God knows how many trees we can save by cutting down on paper use, which can be achieved through minimising entries in patient's notes. If it's going to be a seen by aka S/B entry ending with a continue same treatment aka CST entry, why bother duplicating it?
Everybody Hurts. Maybe REM was really singing about us.
6 comments:
Hey...doc fibrate... i have this funny feeling from reading your blog that you are extremely familiar...and perhaps i may be right. Do you happened to be in the 2001 batch of house officers sent to kuching? Perhaps from USM like your hubby?
Aiyo..thanks for re-living the hospital's typical scenes for me..kakakka..You poor thing...Beli Osim la..after work can squeeze squeeze that tired feet of yours...
Perineum : 2001 batch, indeed. I must know you then, but how do you know my hubby was in USM? I don't remember revealing that anywhere in this blog. Anyway, show yourself! Always excited to reconnect with someone from Kuching. :)
Eve : That's hospital life. Just saja-saja complain. OSIM...good idea!
hmm you are right...you didnt mentioned hubby was from usm.. hehhe.. anyways..its me, tan... obs and gynae... ring a bell??
I see you are into photography as well. Cool.. me too...but only beginner lah..feel free to see some of them... at http://www.flickr.com/photos/orcastyl/
Perineum : We thought it might be you or your room mate so we're not too far off the mark! It figures - perineum...ob/gyn...Your shots are pretty good. Beginner? No way - got fish eye lens some more!
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