And so week 01 has come to a close, 51 more to go. A few things's have been established: 1. working is way different from anything that the past 5 years prepared us for. 2. I ve been given a lucky break in terms of department rotation for this 1st month. 3. Its very nice to have friends around in the same hospital to help/bug/have a bite with! :)
Daily work has been very manageable, thanks to the fact that workload is decent hence giving me time to learn and adapt. The learning curve has been steep though - getting used to making decisions, calling something normal and raising the alert at other times. Also in terms of dealing with patients, talking to them and dealing with mistakes - had lessons aplenty this past week. Still not fully confident of managing everything, still not looking forward to my 2nd call (tomorrow) but slowly, I am realising the unquantifiable rewards of the job: the rapport with patients, their relief with progress made and the joy with each successful (difficult) plug/blood taking. :)
And I sure know how painful it is to have a plug set (a channel into the veins to deliver drugs/drips) cos I ve had one set onto me for the experience of it - and boy, it is not pleasant. Hence it is praise-worthy how my patients bear with it without moving, many even tolerating multiple attempts - brave people indeed! And so, very satisfied that for 2 of my patients with difficult veins, I ve been rather successful, getting in with the 1st try..so much so that the dear old aunties refuse blood taking by anyone except me! Looking forward to seeing them everyday and see them get better and just appear more cheerful :)
My team's great too, with a very experienced consultant who can hold a conversation about anything in this world from medical stuff to biblical tales to rivers of the world and even tamil songs! He strongly encourages us to read around the patients we have and so the learning scope is wide with very enjoyable post-round discussions! And I am definitely not used to coming home and have no set work to do!! its almost like something's amiss that there's nothing that has to be studied or done..find myself with quite a bit of fair time now. Gonna take up something new soon.
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escapades from singapore - an attempt to capture in writing the experiences/emotions/ups & downs and pretty much everything else happening in my rather eventful life as a med student. its going to be tough capturing everything in words, but worth a shot I think!
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ROAD LESS TRAVELED
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
Robert Frost
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