Saturday, September 15, 2007


一针见血


I guess only medical students can truly feel what 一针见血 means... That dark-red flashback into the syringe when you hit the vein is really satisfying.. not because we are sadistic, but because the suffering the patient went through is not in vein vain... and we dun have to poke again..

The most morale boosting thing that happened to me during my night call on thursday was an old lady thanking me for taking her blood. When I approached her with the bloods tray, she was actually quite worried, as she had already been poked several times just few hours ago. And whoever did the blood-drawing was unsuccessful. So she kept asking me whether I was confident. When I told her I'm year 3, she appear visibly relaxed. Perhaps she tot that I had been doing this for 3 years already. Then I went on to do a "one-shot, one-kill", which she was very grateful for.

"You are very good. Thank you very much!"

That really made my night..

posted by nwxiang at 3:24 PM |


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