Hate weekend on calls...

I HATE WEEKEND ON CALLS!!!!!

Not because I lose my Saturday and Sunday, but more about the crap bleeps I get from wards. I know I should approach my start of the day with a smile, and enthusiasm, but having experienced what a fucking pain weekend on calls are before, I know what's expected.

I have to say this again. Some nurses are BRILLIANT, while some farking don't use their brains. Stupidest bleep for the day, "Doctor, the patient is low in potassium and the team has written him up for potassium tablets. Can I give it?"

It makes me wonder if she feels dumb even asking me that question. I don't think it takes even a doctor to know if the answer is yes or no. And if the patient shouldn't be taking those tablets, then why the hell would that patient's team write him up for it?

And I bloody hate it when I get bleeped to do something when I'm busy or on ward rounds, and then when I manage to make time to rush down to do it, nurses start getting arsy and grumble abt why I'm taking so long to come down to do cannulation. CCB! I mean, if u can't wait 1 hr to administer the antibiotics, bloody find some ass to do the cannulation yourself. I'm peeved by the fact already that HDU nurses are incompetent, WORSE THAN ANY OTHER WARD NURSES, and I don't need another HDU nurse to remind me again of his/her incompetence.

Plus phlebs...knn (I'm being very vulgar today cos I'm upset!). Today, they went on strike again. How terribly irresponsible. And I turned from an on call doctor into an on call phleb today. Does that make any logical sense?

Honestly, this isn't the first time the phlebs went on strike on weekends, and they got me pissed off yesterday when they refused to go to the ward to bleed my patients because my ward is closed due to some diarrhoea "epidemic" going on. This does not make any logical sense to me, because if nurses and doctors are supposed to still enter a "closed" ward, no reason for any other health professional to say "No, I'm not going in." It's SHEER laziness and I am not willing to accept any other excuses.

Whenever I get pissed off like this, it just makes me want to climb up the hierachy even more. If I were a Consultant, I bet you NO ONE in the hospital will dare say anything back if I put my foot down and insist that things are done the way I want it. That's what power is all about, and I'm having to face all this shit because I'm only a junior doctor, a position so lowly that it doesn't deserve any respect from anyone in this shit place.

Few more months and I can bid farewell to those I dread in this hospital. I know I'm gonna face another type of shit back home, but I'll grumble abt it when it happens. And hopefully it wouldn't be that bad as here, since angmos are well known to be lazy and got the heck care attitude, which I am sick of.

I swear when I become a Consultant one day, I will NOT let any of these people step on my tail or get on my nerves. And I shall make sure what I say stands, and if I demand for something, I shall make sure it is done. No excuses or buts will be entertained. Period.