oh, did i told u all tat chun hieng is getting married on 15/11/04.to congratulate him-0128843917

The real carren: please inform me if they are starting a ent dept.

Also, my friend recently went to jab hasil in seremban, and after much tapping of the calculator, it seems based on our EC form (which we must bring there before we buka file) we don qualify to pay taxes yet. we have to wait for the next EC form which comes in Jan 2005. Thus, more money for us this year!!! I think....

Also, does anyone know about the APC? I called KL to find out more but it seems that our TPC is still valid and we have to be confirmed first. Can anyone validate my info?

wonder if they psy unit there?

hi there, adeline here, not carren (ya, she forced me to admit this if i used her password ;P)

i'm now in manjung (hosp seri manjung). it's kinda near lumut and sitiawan. nearer ipoh than teluk intan was, so that's one plus point. apparently less patients but also disproportionately less doctors, sigh.....

i'm currently MO plus HO cos the whole hosp only got 2 HO. yup that's right n apparently ipoh has 20 HO in paeds alone (one to set line, one to hold the pt, one to fill the forms --- n doing 4 calls per month ---- this told by my specialist). on leave now, managed to trick my boss. dunno what to say regarding dr situation here. we look like we got 4 mo in paeds but one is extremely pregnant n not doing calls n will soon go for maternity n breast feeding and what have u leaves. one thing bout district hosp is that u end up doing hell lot of calls (weekends included) n u do it all alone---- yucks.

ok good things bout manjung. nurses help us a lot. i think we cant do solo call without them. all the blood taking n line setting they try to do for u, i mean for the kids. but babies u gotta do urself most of the time. paeds ward nurses here are nice. i like them. bosses n senior mo's also nice. n i start work at 8am. (yay! no more waking up at 6am to go to work!)

i'll be going to ortho next month. somehow, hospitals other than ipoh hosp in perak are all in confusion. we dunno how long is each rotation for each posting for us, n neither do our boss n pengarah know anything.

everyone surely thinks that one of the advantages of being in district are that the patients are less fussy n nicer right? ----Wrong! Manjung fellas are real smart a** n they love the IV drip. trust me, even the granma would demand IV drip for AGE patient taking orally well n not dehydrated. i think the people here are propagating some gossip regarding the healing powers of our lovely NS. sometimes we just start a slow iv to shut them up as we are too busy to argue. this results in a ward full of IVD kids who are well enuff to walk around cheerily pushing the drip stands along. luckily my boss more than knows this certain peculiarity among the people in this region n never questions the un needed IVD.

apparently chun wearn is coming to manjung too. khairul is already in ortho here. anyone else keen? it's a specialist hospital n we're short. welcome all he he he (evil laughter). till next faraway time. bye n take care guys.

Will become permanent M.O. in anesth.

Hi,

Being casualty MO is kind of fun. You just work the shifts, you see fresh presentations (which is good for sharpening diagnostic skills), and there is no chronic stuff to follow up. The boring things are URTIs at 2am, somatization disorder patients; and really tenat old people that you dont know what is wrong with and dont know which dept to refer to.

I have requested to be permanent in Anest and it is approved. I will go back to air-cond rooms on October 1st. The anesth dept here really takes care of it's MOs. There are only 4-5 calls a month, we get postcall day off, and Day 2 postcall pm shift. Nope, I dont plan to be an anesthetist, just want the extra time to study. Plus being a permanent MO in any dept will also mean that Seow Voon and I will not be transferred to the peripheries.

By the way, Mong Tieng will be transferred to Alor Setar in October to do Peds.

hey man, what about me being a MO morning and HO in the night. have to cover the whole cardiac ward and CCU all alone. there were a HO and MO last time but but now i have to do both the donkey jobs with my cardiologist wagging their tail at the clinic and rest room. still have to do HO's call like other HOs.
i enjoy working in CCU with the air-con and better nurse/patient ratio and good opportunity to keep staying in cardiology line, but like most of us still uncertain about our real liking. been thinking to join anaesthesiology... we are living in this place with little control of my future? so far to go and yet so little sured path to take. is this what we want when we applied for our medical school 6 yrs ago?

dun worry, totally understand the re-transition to HO. this had been the sweetest 4months, had my own room, own desk, own nurse, n even with air con.....drug reps treat u like king, patients tot look at u with awe, n for once, felt like a doctor...but all these gonna end soon.. wil b goin to medical too........
hell.

A soul of water,
A soul of stone.
A soul by name,
A soul unknown.

The hours unmake
Our flesh, our bone.
The soul is all;
And all alone.

Clive Barker, Abarat

See the truth all around;
Our faith can be broken
And our hands can be bound;
But open our hearts and fill up the emptiness
With nothing to stop us
Is it not worth the risk?