Tuesday, July 03, 2007


Not a good day


Forgot to call the prof who is supposed to give us tutorial this morning. Prof called secretary. Secretary called student. Student called student. Prof called student. Prof sounded pissed. Students called students to warn them.

Rushed out of ward rds to attend tutorial at 9:30am. Tutor asked if we had any cases to present. Didn't clerk any this morning cos was following ward rounds. Cases clerked last wk either presented already or discharged. Prof din look too happy with us. After a long and uncomfortable silence, went to look for a patient whom I clerked last wk to present.

Found that patient was still there. Asked politely if the op has been done (cos no signs to elicit if op has been done)

Me: "Mr ___, 他们帮你开刀了吗?"

Patient: "你没有脑的是吗?! 没有开刀怎样把肠拿出来?! 你可以用脑想一下吗?! 你有没有脑的....."

Me (with tremendous self-restraint): "ok ok, 只是问一下而已.." (polite smile and walks away b4 losing self-restraint)

Tutor eventually found another patient for us to clerk and examine. Managed to go thru the rest of the tutorial relatively unscathed. Phew..

Anyway on a lighter note: Ivy is the 1st to beat me at minesweeper flags!!!! Congrats!!! hahaha

posted by nwxiang at 12:30 AM |


Comments:
You gave chance la!
Cos i said it would be an interesting bday present :) haha

Anyway, next time when u get posted to CGH, u'll find that patients there are in general quite eager to be clerked and examine :)
# posted by Blogger efeu : Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:51:00 PM
 
i guess patients at NUH are over-harassed by students la.. too many students liao
# posted by Blogger nwxiang : Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:54:00 AM
 
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