Week 2

Week 2 of Clinical School has official ended. It sure was tiring. This week is more beneficial than last week for sure. We spent most of out time at the hospital in wards. Most of this week is clerking patients with 1 SOPD(Surgical Outpatient Dept) where we stood for hours and 1 OT session where we yet again stood for hours.

Some of my batch mates took turns to draw blood from each other. Count me out of that. As it is, I am not fond of needles. In the hands of inexperienced 3rd year medic students is a NO NO for sure.

Today was my 1st A&E on call session. Just like the rest of the week, I felt out of place and clueless of what was going on, what I can do and how to do it. The MO asked us to do something something something (ie I had no clue what he said) and the thing I kept doing was call for Leong (my sem 8 senior). I did help out in plugging in the ECG leads though. That I could do, though Im sure a 8 year old who can differentiate red, yellow, green, black, brown and purple can do as well. hahaha

Then came in a case where I could actively assist. A patient was brought in to the A&E in cardiac arrest. We were summoned by the doctors to assist in chest compressions (CPR). It was my 1st time doing CPR on a real person (ie not on a modal) and it is way harder than it was during practices. We had to take turns among the 6 of us present and thankfully, the patient gained back his pulse. He is still in danger though due to the long transit to the hospital post cardiac arrest and have been moved to the ICU. Nevertheless, it was nice to have made myself useful and not just a moving obstruction in other people's way. hahaha

I like being in hospital. To me the way to learn medicine is by being wit patients and doing things hands on. If only there was no theory test, I would be spending my entire day and night at the hospital. =D Speaking of, I need to get past year papers from seniors. Still quite lost on what the ICA will be like. Cheers.