Colonoscopies and laminectomies - hour 9 of the 24 hour duty that sucks

Actually, just one of both, but the plural forms sounded better as a title.

I had just finished informing the anesthesiologist and internist (for clearance) for a patient who was admitted a few hours ago. She's going to undergo a laminectomy tomorrow at 7:30 AM. I also did the IV insertion thing for her and did the history and PE for the chart (which nobody actually reads.) Also, a patient who's undergoing work-up* for chronic diarrhea is getting a colonoscopy tomorrow at another hospital. I called up a gastrointestinal specialist-guy at another hospital to fix it up for tomorrow. Then I informed the attending MD that the procedure she wanted had been arranged. I also had to explain to the patient himself about what was going to happen to him tomorrow. (Sir, you're going to get butt-f*cked tomorrow, and guess what, you're paying for it! Mwahahahaha!)

So now, I'm free! No more pesky procedures to do or patients to explain stuff to. Yay.










Damn, I'm bored.







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*work up - The doctors don't know what's wrong with you so we're going to do diagnostic tests until we make tsamba on a diagnosis.

This moonlight thing is beginning to grow lame

This blog entry is being assembled as I'm doing my 24-hour duty at a small private hospital here in QC. Even though I'm getting a little (minuscule) hospital experience here, it's starting to get old for me. Aside from the nurses, and the occasional consultant MDs who do rounds on their patients, it's me all the way with no one to talk to and the loneliness is killing me. I never thought I'd be saying this, but being benign* sucks. However, I'm guessing I'd feel sucky too if it were toxic** and I was still alone. The obvious conclusion here, dear friends, is that I hate doing single duty. I'm not used to this after spending the majority of my hospital duties with my clerk and intern blockmates in good old PGH. Even in rotations where there was only me as the duty intern, I knew I could always just skip over to the next ward and chat with another intern. Here? Wala. As in.

The consuelo de bobo in my duties here in the hospital:

1. DSL internet - Yay! I can post blog entries, and whine about my crappy duty and life.
2. Airconditioned quarters. - Excuse me, it's called a "callroom", not "quarters". (I'm still using PGH terms, God help me.)
3. Banyo - enough said.
4. Free lunch and dinner - Small servings, pero puwede na.

Well, that's it's for now, the duty nurse just called and just asked a question I don't know the answer too. Research muna ako.

Glossary:
* benign - walang ginagawa, konti patients, o walang kailangan gawin para sa patients. Suwerte ka, yahoo!
** toxic - madami trabaho, madami patients, paperworks, procedures. Tae ka, malas mo. Lol.

I'm currently hooked on...

God help me, but to my shame, I'm currently hooked on that stupid Brian Gorrell blog. It's the blog of an Aussie gay fag guy and about how he was scammed out of his money by his a-hole socialite boyfriend. It must be the skewering of a piece of shit socialite that's making me come back to it every day. Just like the time I got hooked on the Malu Fernandez scandal (what a pig!), the entertainment I get from reading these crappy socialites getting dumped on by their fellow Pinoys is simply amazing.

Other things I'm hooked on:
1. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - too bad the 1st season is over and the next season is still in October
2. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 - the best show on TV!


Things I should start:

1. studying for the USMLE.
2. Catch up on House MD and CSI (CSI Las Vegas. I'd rather die than watch CSI Miami)
3. Watch that Heroes show everybody is telling me to watch.
4. Watch that Lost show everybody is telling me to watch
5. Watch that Grey's Anatomy show everybody.. NOOOOO! NEVER!!!
6. Be kind to my patients.

Well, waddya know, I'm still blogging.

I thought I was done with this blog but I guess not. Here I am.