What a crazy start to my night duty on a Sunday!
Am assigned to the Fever Zone..the zone where no docs wanna be in, simply because it's always understaffed for strange reasons.
And my misery got worse when there's a sudden surge of patients into the Fever zone and I'm at war alone in this isolated area. Bleah.
Apologies to those who got pissed off after such a long wait and decided to cancel registration and seek professional help elsewhere. I was really trying my best to see the patients as quickly as I can, PLUS running from fever to non-fever zone countless times (and note that I have to gown up in PPE each time I enter the Fever area, and degown whenever I leave..grrr) because of attention-seeking people.
Looks like I'm not the only one in this shit since my nurses and seniors were also wondering what curse was cast on the department today for having this insane surge of patients on a Sunday.
Sunday nights are when a number of NS guys will start streaming in with whatever complaint they can come up with. I seriously do not think that every NS guy is "chao keng", but with the number of black sheeps around, somehow, as emergency physicians, we can't help but wonder at the back of our minds if it's just one of those acts whenever we know someone is from NS. And strangely, most of them come with their parents - something I can never understand because they're old enough to tell the docs what's wrong with them and aren't that ill that they need parents to come along with them. I'm mean, but it does entertain me a lot when I start speaking very sternly to them with bits of sarcasm when I know for sure that the patient in front of me is a malingerer. And true enough, once I go "You don't need a MC", the patient absconds IMMEDIATELY. Funny huh..
Ok..enuff for tonight. Got called to help out in non-fever areas already...ffffff...gotta degown again...fffff...
