failed

exam results are out, and i am not amongst the list of those who passed.
but i'm alright, i know i didn't study as hard as i should have, and this result is entirely my own doing. i will make sure i study a lot harder the next time round! :)

survived my passive calls so far, v happy :D
passives are awful calls. you get a million calls for post-op reviews, you take endless bloods, you see all the patients that cannot sleep/itchy toes/cannot pee/cannot BO/bleeding/chest pain/SOB/dizziness/nausea/pain pain pain/ etccc.
ARGHHHHHHH.
medicine is not my strong suit, clearly!
diagnosed a patient with nosocomial pneumonia my last call, but didn't start tazocin as nurses had just given augmentin 1 hour ago. wrote in casenotes to start tazo cm, and passed over to the ward HO next morning, but the attending refused to do anything for patient as patient appears well. OH DEARIE ME :( :( :(
i can only hope that the patient pulls through! :\ will go back and have a look at him another day.

dealt with a VVVVIP patient (some foreign politician's relative, prof's personal private patient), that my resident was ordered to clerk personally and take bloods from. hahaha.
thankfully she was very nice :)
the funniest thing was when my resident tourniqued her hand, stared at it in horror and told me: "i haven't taken blood in a damn long time", right in front of the patient! OH DEARIE ME.
thankfully patient does not understand english. HAHAHAHA!
luckily i set her plug, so all was well and good :D

my lovely senior resident overheard me whining to another intern about how crappy life in ortho is, and said:" still complaining??" hahahaha oops!

more rants about private and subsidised care later on!