Tuesday, September 22, 2009

SECOND SYAWAL

For most people in the rest of the world and Malaysia..they still celebrating Hari Raya..
me too celebrating "Hari Raya".
Yesterday, 1 syawal was great..I enjoyed the nicest sleep ever..ya i slept most of the day.
the next day was totally different.
at 7 am, i received a call from my colleague. She is sick..had runny nose and headache and she can't work today. i have to replaced her and have to do oncall today..
"ok la ..no problemo...take a rest ok..i'll cover you.."
what a surprise.. I just break one of the ancient rule of oncall: never take your colleague call otherwise you will be curse.

Ancient oncall rule no 1: Please follow the oncall list as on the timetable.

"nevermind la" it's just an ancient rule....and i'm replacing my sick colleague..God will bless me.
rush to the hospital...i was surprised to see the ward was empty...
yaaa....can finish work soon..

then,,exactly at 8.00am, 1 of my patient became unstable. he passed out fresh melaena...ie black stool..when you are a doctor..you will be obsessed with examining stool..we like to see patients stool very much...yellow is healthy...liquid and greenish not so good....but when it is black..is EMERGENCY..
black stool is a sign of internal bleeding...this patient had bleeding from his stomach..
he was unstable..without delay we send him to operation theater for emergency scopes to control the bleeding.
my second boss doing the scope.

really bad luck..we can't control the bleeder ..hence we have to do emergency laparotomy ie opening his abdomen (tummy) and stop the bleeding after entering the stomach. the operation took about 2 hours. we succeeded ...and so far he is stable in the ICU.
After that...i received calls from districts and from ER..there were 3 ladies with abdominal pain (sakit perut).
all of the patients need admission for urgent investigations.
2 patients came with pain over the testis (sakit telor la doctor)..
i have to admit them for pain control.


T
hen, i was rushed to the OT again...This time i have to do emergency appendicectomy..
hah..this is "kacang" ..a simple operation..
to my surprised again this is the most difficult appendicectomy ever.
it took me about 3 hours instead of usual 45 mins.
preparing for op.
i was damn tired after the operation..then i received another call from the ER.

Dr Bond!!
Please come to ER now..there is a 5 year old boy..fall from the house.

OK...i come now..

He was unconscious...we have to do urgent CT brain..
the unfortunate boy

Thank God..The CT brain didn't showed any bleeding from the brain..otherwise i have to send this boy to OT for surgery.

By this time it was about 11 pm...I was really tired, smelly and hungry .

I fall asleep on a chair till i received another call at 4 am..



Question: Please choose single best answer.

Why Dr Bond is busy on second day of Syawal?
A. He break the ancient rule of oncall.
B. It is a test from God.
C. It is a punishment from God as he didn't do his work well.
D. because he didn't give me duit raya.
E. He deserved it! padan muka
F. whatever la, apa-apalah.
G. none of above.

4 comments:

med_student said...

obviously d ans is D......yea!!

iqmedia said...

As I have thought... But why the h*ll r u replacing her???

Nevermind, god will bless u with oncall allowances... Hehe and with that some duit raya to med_student.

this is an example of overworked doctor but people rarely understand.

Have u seen the complaint on MGH?

drBOND said...

only 3 doctors available during raya.
1 is oncall yesterday..
so only left me available ..

Pearl said...

never heard of such a rule...
i would definitely replace a colleague if he/she was sick...