Jul 29, 2011

About surgery

So the dreaded Medicine posting begins this monday.I would've said dreaded for any other posting anyway.
Surgery- the subject, we need to talk.
Let me tell you why: First off I wasnt even prepared for internship mentally.All I thought during my last days of mbbs was to just get through the final exams. Before results, all I wanted was to pass (surgery obviously, not hard to guess). The ten days between the day my results were out and the internship began were fully devoted to touring the government offices and the lengthy paperwork.
Next I began my internship in all new surroundings.Surgery postings.
My first ward duty was in the septic wards.I never really liked surgery and I am obviously not a fan of dressing and draping Pyoceles and Fourniers gangrenes.I hated every minute of it.
I normally take a very long time to get adjusted to new people.And as an extern in this hospital, imagine.
                What I particularly hate about people who talk a lot and not work a lot is everything about them.I had the opportunity to meet such people in the first month itself.Not a good time to be bestowed upon with other's duties onto my already overburdened soul.
Now you know the background.

What I want to do different this time:
 1.I'm the only intern working in the whole unit.All the work is mine.If anyone else is helping me in it, its just a favor they are doing to me.After all internship is once in a lifetime opportunity.
2. Go back to 1.



Jul 15, 2011

How to spot an intern thats going to be super-hit doctor in the future.Or how not.

No.I dont get pissed when a patient or an attendant calls me sister and my male co-intern as doctor.
NO.I wont talk in length, with expressions and hand movements about a complicated case of wound cleaning and dressing I did that day and tell how horrible i felt after yelling at a woman in labor to shut up when doing my first episiotomy.
And Im definitely NOT excited about another day of routine paper work and running around blood banks.
Reason for my rant here:Somebody I know does everything above and talk hours about the same while I sit there and roll my eyes over the stories, only to be judged by my non-medical friends as how that somebody has the spark that makes a successful doctor and me..hmmmmm..I will gain interest eventually, maybe ?
I cant blame them.Obviously.They are my friends.They are always wrong.
Then why the post?
LOOK IM WRITING STUFF ABOUT HOSPITALS WHILE SHES JUST TALKING.