Back to Work

Back to work today. Not too bad despite listening to the stories of all the dramas that occurred in my (and because of) my absence.

My patient list is back to just 7 people..woo hoo. Seronoknya. I'm busy but a bearable kinda busy. I hate it when the patient number increases more than 15. It's a bit too much. Especially if many of them are sick patients.

I really enjoy this rotation actually because I feel like I've learnt and "grown" quite a lot as a surgical intern. Balanced exposure to ward work, problem solving and actual surgeries. I started the rotation very very mentah and clueless about what to do. I didn't even know the ins and outs of drain tubes. Now I do and I've even seen them inserted during surgery.

This rotation also...
helped us interns know each other better. We work a lot together and do handovers every day and rely on each other for favours. Made new friends on this rotation. Plus the registrars on the units are consistent so you get to know them and vice versa. You know their modus operandi and how to get on their good side. (Compared to my medical rotation where my registrar was different every week!).

Just 3 weeks left of it. I think I'm gonna miss it actually. Especially the $$$. Hehehehe.


Hey today we had a suturing workshop to practice our suturing skills. In medical school we only did it on foam "skin". Today we had pork chops to work on. Euww gross kan. Not because it's pork but because it looks like a chunk had been cut off from a HUMAN thigh or something.