Working on the Holidays/How new doctors suffer
Before I started working this week, my friend who did his training as a medical student in this institution told me that the number of patients would reduce drastically as people go to their villages to celebrate with family.
So far the cases seem to still be flooding in and becoming worse in terms of number.
This week I am in the Children's Emergency and it is nice that I can get a break from the wildlife of chemo and cancer to yet another type of wildlife...The Wild Life of the emergency room.
Unlike what you find in adult medicine where people are doing dangerous stuff like fighting with fists against people with guns at times, with children you get silly to serious emergencies.
Children will be at home and just decide to put a beans seed into their ear. I'm not the one who takes it out though, but it's annoying whenever they present to the hospital. The ENT surgeons are the ones to do it and I am sure they too are tired of it.
Yesterday
When I came to work yesterday, I found that there were two mortalities over the night.
One case was a child with Severe Malaria and the other was a case of Acute Glomerulonephritis (AGN).
I met the Malaria case in the hospital. I started out the process of blood transfusion.
I took the blood sample and I sent it to the lab for grouping and crossmatching.
The person that took over from me was a new house officer so it did not make things easy for him when the child died and they blamed him for it.
He apparently did not shot off the blood at the right time...he was a few seconds late and when the child died the parents knew that he was supposed to have shot it off but didn't.
When that happened the whole family wanted to beat the guy up...He told me he had to hide in the toilet.
His first call was duty and he had to hide in the toilet!!!
My first call
There was death too, one man who died protecting his family. He was shot. According to the story the shooters came for him anyway. But he died and no one blamed me for that.
The time my abilities as a doctor were questioned by a patient was when I was taking care of a patient postop and he was unconscious. As he started gaining consciousness he started requesting another doctor and would be upset whenever I came around him.
Back to the holiday
There is a Christmas party on the 23rd...It's by 7 pm and promises to be nice. I hope I am not as exhausted on that day as I was yesterday. I slept by 6 pm and woke up by 2 am this morning.
Hello @ebingo!
The truth is that being a doctor is not an easy task and even more so when dealing with children, this profession requires a lot of effort and dedicating a lot of time including vacations but it is well worth it and those who perform it are admirable.
So so true. I know a lot of seniours I want to be like in the profession. Some have even taken their energy to other fields outside medicine and are doing so well
It's very different and difficult to work on holiday as you are in party mood and don't want to work. But sometimes it's very urgent and someone need your help if you are doctors.
Doctor take a oth of Saving everyone life. So if we work also it's a once in a blue moon work.
Right. But I never knew it would be this tedious when I took the both or decided to be a doctor in the very first place
Friend @ebingo
I am a doctor too,.and I know how difficult it can be to work at this time of year in any hospital. The truth is that people do not understand many times, and one as a doctor runs the risk of contracting diseases as well as being assaulted by family members in the midst of their desperation, whether one does the right thing or not.
That is why it is not an easy profession.
Take care of yourself.
Oh my goodness. I fell ill this period.I am so happy they granted me a sick leave else I would have collapsed in the hospital.
It really is not easy. A colleague was even slapped at work recently.
Hi @ebingo. First of all I congratulate you on your work, working during the holidays to care for the health of others is already admirable. And I do not doubt that working in seasons like this is difficult, usually tend to increase the number of accidents of all kinds.
Hello @ebingo
Wow I didn't know you are a doctor and much less in the area of pediatrics, it must be an enriching experience to work for the health of the little ones, as for the topic you share I think it applies to all professions is not easy to work on vacation.
Best regards, be well.
Yeah...Been training as an intern for 7 months now.
It really is difficult during these periods.
Glad to know that you're a doctor and you're doing great work. Thanks to you for what you have done and doing now because with your work you're making an impact in people's lives. Keep up the great work and stay safe
Thank you for the kind words. I really appreciate it
very good
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