ramblings...

just 5 more days to go in obg...already feeling nostalgic[and sad]...will miss those cute/tiny/innocent babies[thats the reason i wanna be a paediatrician]...moreover dont know whether i get to work here again in my life time[unless i take my pg here].

saw LONDON DREAMS movie...overall was a pretty good movie..but as some of them said think needs some reality check [do we need that?]...just learn to enjoy the movie as it is and leave behind the logic/reality check[which most of them dont]!!

doing surgery mcqs for entrance and am totally loving it...loving the logic behind  answering some of the qns and the way it improves ur overall clinical knowledge:)...my only regret is that i didnt do this during my surg postings[internship]:(

is anyone really interested in  wht u eat/see/drink??...frankly i dont enjoy twittering anymore....that way fb rocks...atleast can put some pics/chat/have fun;)

getting to see some pretty good nurses around wards these days....actually its fun talking to some them[;)] and appr the dedication they show unlike some stupid,overgrown useless senior sisters[totally hate them to core]

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anyone seen the movie MOON?

heights of ignorance

heights of ignorance-

a private physician writing NIMHANCE instead of NIMHANS in his reference letter to us...

he doesnt deserve to live on this planet!

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bored of life/internship!!

butter fingers

flash back-

When i was in school and playing cricket i was a terrible fielder and known for throwing easy catches away..i still remember my bros[especially my twin] shouting their ass off @ me for leaving those silly catches...guess tht trait has continued till today....

curent situation-

on sat while on duty had to conduct one delivery[due to some peculiar reason] and when was all ready to catch it[baby] and  fraction of a sec after she delivered i find my hands totally empty...baby had just slipped and fallen into the bucket...[umbilical cord had prevented it from falling off completely]

p.s-

luckily baby was fine and nothing unexpected happened...:)

my name is...

While working in wards[obg] i come across many people with so weird funny names...like this one lady whose name was "Akkamahadevi"...looks like her parents were too impressed with the goddess and wants to  recite it their whole life.Likewise i have seen many couples where husb's and wife's names sound so similar like Gangappa/gangamma,manjunath/manjula,Mangappa/mangamma etc....dont know whether they married for their names or changed it after marriage....

p.s-

my close friend has contracted swine flu while he was on duty...and luckily has managed to get 10 days leave with attn[that too in med]....everytime i mess him he tells me that he is fine and enjoying his life like never before...lucky dog!!

costly shot

gave a RhoGam injection to a just delivered[LSCS] lady today which happens to the costliest inj i have given till date...2ml inj=roughly 1.5k

House M.D s06

go to wards>write tons of discharge cards>then to duty room-gossip/eat/drink coffee>come back home by afternoon....

atleast its better than those stupid 12 hrs labour duty shifts...but i miss those cute babies:(!!

p.s-

any one watching house s06??..it totally rocks!!

write,write.....

after deliveries now its time to send them packing home...thats wht i did today and will be continue doing it for next ten days[rotation]...we have wards now for another one month and many cases which i saw[read delivered!] few days back seems like were getting discharged today and so had to write the discharge card summaries....overall i think[ward works] are far better than labour duties.Atleast no more frustrating 12hrs shift,cheap sleep and shouting till patients hear and come for daily rounds.

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when told many among relatives were unable to digest the fact that i had conducted so many deliveries...they just think i have just assisted[which i  havent]/witnessed or may be bluffing abt the whole thing...lol....on the other side there r quite few ones who get really surprised and keep asking me how i did/do that etc....[:D]....

short and sweet

at last labour duty over...total was 58!!...wht a relief...[but i miss those babies:(]

leaving for shimoga today to attend my cousins marriage...guess i need a brk after a month of heavy work...

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a patients attn who were happy with the baby[which i delivered] distributed us sweets in the ward...!!

still not out

tomo being my last day in clw[clean lab ward] makes me really happy,nostalgic and satisfied.....happy coz no more 12hrs/day duty[which i hate the most],nostalgic coz delivering and making babies cry[just love them to pinch!..lol] will always be a sweet memory to me and satisfied coz i always wanted to learn this[conducting labour] and am content with my count[50 till now] and hope tht some day some parent rememberes me for wht i have done to them:)

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when making a cpr to a baby with a paediatrician few days back i realized that 23 yrs ago i was in tht baby's position[me being prematurely born had to be in nicu for a month] and now tht same baby is in a position to do the same on others....indeed life is like a ....

miracleS

miracles in life-

1-a just born asphyxiated baby surviving after almost 10 minutes of nonstop cpr[by myself and a paediatrician]+adrenaline trail....we had almost decided to declare it dead to the party concerned...after successfull resuscitation it was shifted to nicu immediately.[but our concern was the amount of brain damage baby would have suffered due to the episode]

2-a lady delivering a "healthy" baby instead of urinating in bathroom...

3-an anaemic mother surviving the delivery and coming out of it as healthy as any mother....

4-me not delivering a single baby yestersay in 24 hours

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god is indeed sending his much needed blessings upon the needy!;)

she came,saw and delivered.....referring to a patient whom i delivered within minutes of getting admitted at 4 in the morning

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yesterday was my coolest duty...only one delivery in 24 hrs with lots of sleep in between;)!!

do nos matter?

3+3+6+4=16!

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no of deliveries conducted by me till now[in 4 days]....

my twitter link...http://twitter.com/pratapu[just in case]

little moments of joy

i feel overwelmed and indeed very happy when i-

-see the baby's head suddenly popping out of the mothers womb[oops!] and rotates[called restitution]

-for the first time hold the baby in my hands and direct it towards the mother lying there exhausted[really appr them for this kind of hardship they undergo]....

-take the baby for suctioning and on putting the tube inside its tiny nose it Sneezes[atchoo!!]

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just check this out...a womans quest for 100 kisses in paris....wth!

a senior staff in my college to my friend[male!] "tell me if u taking mrcs exams,even i will take so that we can study TOGETHER"!!!!...wth[2]

 

Delivery man

after 12 hours of labour duty-

i have delivered[independently] 3 babies[statistically quite less compared to my other cointerns]

assisted for about another 3!!...

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still amazed[and surprised] with the way i conducted my first one...just some moves here and there and within a few secs i had a healthy female child crying in my gloved hands[for which the mother gratefully thanked me!!:)]

Mr Catcher

My first day in obg was as wierd as it can get....first of all its a subj which seems so greek and latin to me[learning theory and doing it practically r so diffn] and a 12 hour continous night shift in the first day itself was something hard to digest[though we had done many double duties in med]...Luckily now am in a ward[srlw] where cases r quite less and luckily i can sleep atleast for 4-6 hours during night shifts.

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1-yesterday as soon i entered the room i saw many preg ladies lying on the bed ready to be delivered...it was such a weird feeling...didnt know wht to say or do..i just had to like a zombie roam around a bit for some company[other cointerns:P]

2-from drugs to equipments used seemed new as if i had read this subj long back...guess i have to do my home work properly...!:(

3-2 days brk now...next duty is on sunday!!...

4-the best part is that sisters do most of the work here[unlike in med,surgery] and we just have to sit back and order them/impress them[?]!!..;)

life goes on

new place,new people,new work!!...

atlast my surgery postings came to an end today with a pre-ot duty...didnt had much work[post duty] except for preparing 4 patients for ot tomo....finally had to say bye to our pgs and come home..Obg[from tomorrow] now will be in a diffn hosp with diffn setup,people and faculty!!...[wish me good look!!:)]

p.s-

me doing my last wound suturing @ casualty on monday night.....it was a classical assault case with a chisel!![as usual]!!..lol..

could anyone make out tht am a lefty?;)

an experience..

today we had ANC[antenatal-pregnancy] clinic duty where we clinically examine the pregnant ladies and advise them regarding their health,prescribe medicines and do a thorough followup.
overall we examined abt 50-70 ladies [19yr to 35yr old ones]....few among these was so shy for examination tht she almost refused to co-operate...this is one problem we always come across with opposite sex patients....[still remember the male patient in our surgery opd who almost masturbated when one of my friends examined it!!]
The sad part was tht both our BP apparatus weren't working properly(readings were on the lower side) and we had to just guess it and fill in their opd books....no one really cares abt it here[generally in govn institutes] and hope none of them turn out to be hypertensives!...and another problem in these govn places are the attenders[read sweepers,chaprasees] who act as if they own the place and some times they really mistreat these poor patients!

some things[people] never improve!!

Delivery vs Engagement

Mechanism of delivery of a baby can always be compared to a girls Engagement[in India!]...

When a girl gets engaged[Engagement-1] and enters her in-laws house for the first time she greets them first[Flexion-2] and then turns and haves a quick glance[Internal rotation-3] at her future husband..impressed by all this she is then crowned[Crowning-4] by the pujari who is in turn a doc-DR[Delivery of head and Restitution-5,6] and at last she gets married in a exterior hall[External rotation-7] and conceives later and delivers[Delivery of shoulder-8]

p.s-this story was made by myself and my friend during obg pracs viva....

Quotes

“You know, when you welcome a child into the world, you witness the birth of your child, and you've been there for that nine month period, you realize that there's no doubt, there's no question that women are the stronger of the sexes. There's no doubt. Any man who had to carry a child for nine months would cave in about month or two. And then delivery, you know labor? Yeah, it's over with. So yeah, I would certainly like to explore that. Sure.”
-Johny Depp

p.s-snap was taken in our obg pracs class:)

even a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

study holidays for the exams have just started this week and am all geared up for that....
now have exactly 32 more days for the preparation and am hoping to utilize it as efficiently as possible[this time have to prepare for both pracs and theory unlike in previous yrs]...have started with surgery and still have 3k pages to go[including other subjects]....
wish me good luck guys:)...really need it this time!!...

p.s-
have decided to cut down on my browsing and will not be visiting other blogs quite frequently as before but will try to visit them when ever possible....:)

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