routine

7.25am-wake up...[6.45 alarm snoozed several times]

740-tea with biscuits [gooday]

by 8 be in wards..

this has been my routine since last few days [after i shifted out of my hostel]....not having food in the morning makes me land up with severe acidity at around 11[morning] and which ends in myself gobbling some junk food in canteen and finally end up skip lunch food [2 samosas,puff with tea and badam milk really kills ur appetite!].

monday

monday has finally arrived...that means its opd day and time for night duty...!!...to be frank i dont like just sitting in opd like a duck and prescribe med to the patients instead i prefer to work in emergency and in the wards....ok then guys bye for now...happy weekday!!..:)

p.s-
no more icu duties for me from this week instead we have SWINE flu duties here in our hosp[inaugrated just yesterday]....one intern and one senior resident are posted here on a rotation basis.

Envenomation

During rounds a patient bit by a snake says to our unit prof "saar(sir) it[snake] just hissed once and i got this bite"
myself and the pgs were literally rofl on hearing this..as if via bluetooth its venom got into his body!!

wtf moments

in the wards one patient attender comes to me and tells "doctor my husband's urine collection bag is full..wht shd i do?"...i just calmly replied back saying now whether shd i do the cleaning work also for her!!!...

in the morning post opd day when i confidently said to one of the pgs that i have done the work he had told me to do[ecg and xray] and pointed out my finger towards the patient he says "why are u pointing out in that direction when the patient is right in front of u"...actually wht had happened was there were 2 Anands in the wards and unfortunately i had done the investigations for the wrong person.

p.s-except cleaning and feeding the patients they make us do everything here[or atleast patients think we r here for tht sake]

life in med

this is my 2nd week in medicine and now i feel have quite well adjusted to my work...

on mondays i will be too busy as its opd day and on the same day after 4 will have emergency duty[till 4 in the morning]...this is one place where i really enjoy working...every case u come across here will be critical and hardly u get time to think on the spot there...from poisoning ,suicide cases to kidney,liver failure u get to see all sorts of cases and some times the patients input will be so high that u don't get beds for the patients and experience wise also u learn everything from a nurse job to that of a doc...
next day will be ur post opd day where the profs concerned see the cases and advice the pgs[its more of finding fault in what u have not done]...imagine one prof,2 assistant,7pgs and 3 interns going together for rounds...i just love this part and its when u get the feeling like a real doc...
on other days ur[read interns] just busy doing investigations and collection reports and writing discharge summaries....
overall i have started enjoyingmy work but unluckily my studies have really been affected.

p.s-one more night icu duty tomo.....so one more day of less sleep and more work....

Between the devil and the deep sea

my theory exams[yeah final yr medical exams!] got over just yesterday....52 weeks of final yr were decided in just 9 days...hope the results will be good.....now its time for practicals[from 17th]....4 days of drilling,torture and harassment by examiners!...

p.s-this time our external examiners are from Tamilnadu..hope they don't hold any personal grudge against us[u know the reason!]

patients

today we got to hear a really wierd history from one of our patients in the wards ...
it goes like this...

me[m]: whats ur chief complaint??[the symptom which made him get admitted]
patient:in low voice "my right testis has split into 2"
m: WTF[in my mind]!!!!!!!!??
patient: howdu saar[yes sir]..eidu varsha kelaga dana vadditu.ad aad mele nan bala gade ire beeja[means testis] yeradu aagide[5 yrs back had got kicked by a cow after which my right testis had split into 2]..adre one tingala nantara adu vondu aagithu[after a month or so it was of one piece]
m: are u sure of what u are saying???
patient: howdu saar!!![yes sir]
m: was abt to burst into a laughter but fortunately didnt do it...:D

then we decided to elicit his history more and on examining him found out that he had developed a cyst[cavity with fluid inside it-called spermatocele] just above his testis on the right side and this swelling had made him believe that he had got his testis split and after a month or so when the swelling subsided[due to absorption of those fluid] he had thought that his 2 pieces had got united]!!!...lolzzz

holiday

my surgery postings started this week and this time we are posted in the so called "worst" unit of the department...hardly they take any classes and most of the time we spend time wandering here and there trying to join other unit classes[with out much success]....u can go anywhere and do what ever u want no body cares in our unit:)...so this month most of the time we will be spending time studying in our library[instead of in the wards]
will be going to my native[Udupi] today and will be back only on monday...so this blog will be inactive till then...bye guys[and girls!]..:)

death

one of our patients in the ward died today due to liver failure...:(...my heart felt condolences to his family!..