Obsessed with being in hospital
Because my internet connection today is so corked up, I couldn't even get to talk properly with Dearie. Such a waste of my time, and to think that I was actually looking forward to today since both Dearie and I don't have to work tmr.
Decided to ring him for a short while and was really pleased to hear that he's selected successfully for the China Future Leaders' Programme!!!! I knew my boy can do it!! He's contemplating now about whether he should go to US though.
After he went to bed, I got so bored in my room that I decided to go to the hospital to sign a pile of blood, radiological and microbiology results. I have never seen those patients before, but will still have to sign them so that the secretaries and clerks can file them. It was a relatively huge pile, and because they're not urgent, the secretary told me to do it whenever I have spare time. So yeah...I got my ass down to sign them all and even did them an extra favour by filing everything up for them. So all they have to do on Monday is just put the files away into medical records. Thought I'll do extra since I'm bored plus it'll make them happy and make their life easier.
Then I headed up to my own ward and filed up the entire stack of results into files too. The nurses were quite shocked to see me streaming in with my tee and jeans. Apparently, they think I love the ward so much that I can't bear to leave it.
I've been doing a lot of venflons and bloods recently too, and I think I am improving. I actually managed to draw blood from a few well known difficult patients and put venflons in. There was a patient in my ward who has completely no visible veins, and many doctors have stabbed him numerous times, failed and gave up. I thought I was really unlucky to be called by my nurses to stab him because if my seniors can't do it, chances r I'm gonna fail in doing so since I'm less experienced. I didn't wanna make the nurses unhappy, so I challenged myself.
This sounds crazy, but I actually brought all my equipment to my patient's bedside, and told him that I am sorry for having been asked to stab him, and I am unsure myself if I'm gonna succeed since he's been stabbed so many times and so many doctors just gave up. But his "Have a go. You've got a lucky face, and I have a feeling u'll get it." boosted my confidence, and guess what? I really succeeded the first time!
I think he kinda likes me now, because he needed to be put on a drip a few days later, and my senior failed to put a line in. My little nurse on the ward wanted to have a go, but after inspecting his "veinless" arms, told me she's dropping the idea, and threw the ball back into my court.
My patient was delighted when he saw me coming with my tray of equipments again. "I'm not confident that I'll succeed again this time." I said. "U did it the first time. U can do it again. Come, have a go." he said. And for the 2nd time, I succeeded. I was so happy when I managed to flush the saline through, indicating that the line is in perfect position, and my patient praised me for being really good.
I was called to another ward to take blood from another difficult patient today. I was pleased that having not seen him for many days, he still remembers me and was telling his ward mates that I'm his special doctor...haha. Before I started, he warned me that he's a difficult one, and his veins are very very tiny. It's been a problem for many doctors. Having built some confidence from the earlier patient, I was determined to put myself through another challenge. Indeed he's difficult, because I failed to do so twice. I could give up during then, and throw the responsibility to my senior, but because I knew he had so much faith in me, I didn't want to disappoint him. I went for an odd spot this time...a vein I could feel at the knuckle of his thumb. That spot is close to the bone and because thumbs can move easily, I was worried of causing him pain and it's also not as easy to steady the thumb. But I managed to do it, and my patient said that I should be awarded a medal for causing him no pain at all, yet succeeding at such an odd spot!
I really hope to be really good at doing these things by the end of my first year of housemanship, because in future, if my juniors are not able to do it (in fact, when my hospital starts having medical students streaming in to my team, i'll be getting them to draw blood and put in venflons for me..), the ball gets thrown into my court, and it's going to be very embarrassing if I don't succeed.
I'm so tempted to get more practise by volunteering to help the phlebotomists to take bloods over the weekend. I bet they'll love me to bits if I do that. Plus, I get to practise too. Definitely a plan worth considering hor?
Decided to ring him for a short while and was really pleased to hear that he's selected successfully for the China Future Leaders' Programme!!!! I knew my boy can do it!! He's contemplating now about whether he should go to US though.
After he went to bed, I got so bored in my room that I decided to go to the hospital to sign a pile of blood, radiological and microbiology results. I have never seen those patients before, but will still have to sign them so that the secretaries and clerks can file them. It was a relatively huge pile, and because they're not urgent, the secretary told me to do it whenever I have spare time. So yeah...I got my ass down to sign them all and even did them an extra favour by filing everything up for them. So all they have to do on Monday is just put the files away into medical records. Thought I'll do extra since I'm bored plus it'll make them happy and make their life easier.
Then I headed up to my own ward and filed up the entire stack of results into files too. The nurses were quite shocked to see me streaming in with my tee and jeans. Apparently, they think I love the ward so much that I can't bear to leave it.
I've been doing a lot of venflons and bloods recently too, and I think I am improving. I actually managed to draw blood from a few well known difficult patients and put venflons in. There was a patient in my ward who has completely no visible veins, and many doctors have stabbed him numerous times, failed and gave up. I thought I was really unlucky to be called by my nurses to stab him because if my seniors can't do it, chances r I'm gonna fail in doing so since I'm less experienced. I didn't wanna make the nurses unhappy, so I challenged myself.
This sounds crazy, but I actually brought all my equipment to my patient's bedside, and told him that I am sorry for having been asked to stab him, and I am unsure myself if I'm gonna succeed since he's been stabbed so many times and so many doctors just gave up. But his "Have a go. You've got a lucky face, and I have a feeling u'll get it." boosted my confidence, and guess what? I really succeeded the first time!
I think he kinda likes me now, because he needed to be put on a drip a few days later, and my senior failed to put a line in. My little nurse on the ward wanted to have a go, but after inspecting his "veinless" arms, told me she's dropping the idea, and threw the ball back into my court.
My patient was delighted when he saw me coming with my tray of equipments again. "I'm not confident that I'll succeed again this time." I said. "U did it the first time. U can do it again. Come, have a go." he said. And for the 2nd time, I succeeded. I was so happy when I managed to flush the saline through, indicating that the line is in perfect position, and my patient praised me for being really good.
I was called to another ward to take blood from another difficult patient today. I was pleased that having not seen him for many days, he still remembers me and was telling his ward mates that I'm his special doctor...haha. Before I started, he warned me that he's a difficult one, and his veins are very very tiny. It's been a problem for many doctors. Having built some confidence from the earlier patient, I was determined to put myself through another challenge. Indeed he's difficult, because I failed to do so twice. I could give up during then, and throw the responsibility to my senior, but because I knew he had so much faith in me, I didn't want to disappoint him. I went for an odd spot this time...a vein I could feel at the knuckle of his thumb. That spot is close to the bone and because thumbs can move easily, I was worried of causing him pain and it's also not as easy to steady the thumb. But I managed to do it, and my patient said that I should be awarded a medal for causing him no pain at all, yet succeeding at such an odd spot!
I really hope to be really good at doing these things by the end of my first year of housemanship, because in future, if my juniors are not able to do it (in fact, when my hospital starts having medical students streaming in to my team, i'll be getting them to draw blood and put in venflons for me..), the ball gets thrown into my court, and it's going to be very embarrassing if I don't succeed.
I'm so tempted to get more practise by volunteering to help the phlebotomists to take bloods over the weekend. I bet they'll love me to bits if I do that. Plus, I get to practise too. Definitely a plan worth considering hor?
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