endin ur first postin very soon... well, times fly.
......1 down... 5 to go....

err, kalis, if i didn't read shakespear wrongly, macbeth's "period of duty" ended when someone cut his head off. u ought to find another quote.

Hi guys. No internet access in our rented house so only get to read this blog when I go home. Not too busy at the moment. When I'm not on call, I'm glued to the TV. Bought some books to read. At least now can spend some money on books without feeling too guilty. Always fall asleep while watching VCD with my housemates. Oh gosh, I think my life is going to be pretty monotonous. Somebody help!

who said anything about showing concern for people who mean nothing to us?

nicely put Suraya, just be grateful things are not as bad off as they were last time

Why am I in a profession which forces me to show concern for people who mean nothing to me, and at the same time takes me away from those I truly care about?

EPL EPL EPL!!! Life has begun!! Football season is back again and boy is it promising to be good. MU still strong, Arsenal still playing beautiful football, Chelski buying up all the players in the planet, and Liverpool... er oh they're all the way down there. oops

Saturday and Sunday just wasnt the same without football. Now there can be life after work

All seems quiet here... guess everyone must be busy with working life. Sigh... so lazy to work after convo break. Must apply for next leave, at least got something to look forward to.

If you've driven us into the darkness, will we not despise the light?

Happy convocation everyone! kind of anti climax since we have all started working

syitah: how did the rehersal go?someone must teach me how to wear that gown.

Wow Kai Inn does Yee Ling know abt Mary?

i intubated a patient last week my very first one. i failed once where the epiglottis is almost coming out from the throat. i don't think i will become a anaesthetist. wah. it was very underpressure when the ett just could not past through the larynhx and the spo2 is dropping. hey, what to do you are the only doctor in the ward, MO was in OT, nurses staring at you. luckily mary is with me that night.

anyway. i will be back to KL on monday, 11/8. looking for any kaki to go and have a couple of pint if possible. see you guys, bye.

Hi everybody,

Alan and I went to Bahau last week. It was a spur of a moment decision. Bahau is about 15km from K.Pilah. Bahau is definitely bigger than KP. More shops and food choices. Population mainly Chinese. Guess what, we played Daytona there.

During my last call I had to send a patient with GCS 6 to Hosp Seremban at 2am for an urgent CT brain. He was intubated and I had to bag him all the way during the 45minute journey. The road is windy and I was nauseated. This is evil, but I was secretly hoping that he will have a bleed so that he will have to be admitted to Hosp Sban or even neurosurgery HKL. The CT scan showed no obvious bleed, but the Seremban Surgical MO oncall decided to admit him anyway. I took a sigh of relief and (happily) pushed the patient to the Surg ward at 4.45am ... and guess who was the Surg HO oncall? Fabian. He must have been damned chuak to see me with this patient at a crazy hour like that.

... that's not all. When Fabian was attending to my patient, the staff nurse said: Dr Fabian, patient yang kat belakang itu asystole lah. Long live all housemen in the world!

oh what hell ipoh sounds like compared to the rest of you. anyways, no big complaints since i'm already stuck here. was on first call yesterday night. had two polytrauma cases left over from the night before. damn man's BP going up and down all the time. the other guy has been transfused with like 7 pints of blood already, gone through 2 DIVC regimes..... i hope he doesn't overload tonight.

had to attend some orientation today. stupid people. we have all been working for more than a month already and they are teaching us how to fill in lab forms and check blood now. might as well do it when we end our postings. radiologists are people from hell as usual. kept insulting HOs like they are God and knows everything. well, well.... mustn't blame them....afterall, they are the only ones who can see so many tones of grey.

on call again on friday. first call also. no light from heaven shinning at me i guess.

one more week to convo!!! cant wait to get a break!

post call right now... time to zzz

hello!! glad to hear about ur life in the other hospitals! Looks like u r all adapting quite well.

We here in KK seem more free compared to u guys, since we seem to be oversaturated with HOs, though that means that u can find more people snaking around.

Here in surgery we are expected to do appendicectomies, but due to the many HOs some are graduating without even doing one! this is a bad thing as once sent out to the district if they dont know how to do appendicectomy means have to send back QEH, leading to curses from specialists, MOs and HOs who have to clerk patients.

You can do practically anything here, the natives are generally very trusting towards doctors and allow us to do anything we like on them! Procedures are at a u ask, u probably get to do basis. Heard medicine more procedures but also oversaturated that they are only doing like 4-5 calls a month!

Taking 1 week leave for convo, from 10-17th of August! see u all then!

seok Hong: u r back in Penang meh,??!! Went to our home just now (~ 5.45 pm) but ur car still there. Thot u hav slept. What form do u meant we hav to sign??

And people, if we wan our representatives to get our jubah 4 us, how do we sign the surat kuasa? Do we hav to write one ourselves or the is any particular form to sign?? Well, cant wait to c u all again in convo...

Like SH said, life in HAS not bad at all, at least 4 me in Sur. However, i'm posted to this ward call K1 (just opposite SH's ward) where we start our morning rounds with our head of departments at 7 am!!! So we hav to b there earlier than him to cover all the cases n do our rounds b4 he came, but i think some other places might b worse...however, sumthing crazy bout my ward is that it is a acute emergency surg ward, so all the specialists n consultants, heard me ALL will come to our ward to do their own rounds, OWN rounds throughout the day. So we usu end up with at least 5 ward rounds a day and do not really hav time to do the ward works which we will be scolded for later...hhhaaaiii...what luck.

There's 2 chronic HOs here who never promote to other posting, not to say to MO....they r like in their 30s...1 Chi n another Ind...they never do any calls though..the Chi only works fr 8-4.30 pm (office hours) n disappears after that...the nd HO even more "kheng", only follow the morning rounds, then disappears for the whole day. Luckily they r not in my ward. But i think they r quite 'smart' though to keep life as a chronic HO...no need to do calls, 8-5 working hours n can do locum at night. They might even end up earning more than a MO.

Doing sur here in HAS is not bad. We got to do many procedures that the Head (bog boss) said we had to do at least 3 Appendicectomies, 3 chest tubes b4 we can 'pass' to other postings. Surgeons here r crazy, they manage everything even though they don't hav the sub-specialist to do dat. Thus, neurosurgeons in Penang and Ipoh r very gratefull to us here coz we seldom refer cases for them. Those considering Surg post-graduate might wanna consider working here coz as a trainee specialist, u get to do MANY procedures, n they hav proper tutorials and conferences for training specialists, even for us HOs.

Well, enuf bout my life. On 2 days leave to settle some convo stuff. Went to a tailor just now to made the lounge sut for convo. Hopes it'll turn out nice.

Everybody out there, wish all of u good luck and all the best.....hoe we can hav get-together during the convo.

Hi guys! I'm back at home for 5 hours because have to sign the convo form to ask buddy to take jubah. Alor Setar half day on Thursday, what.
I'm doing Ortho. Not bad. Some days work from 7 am to 4.30pm. Some days until 7.00 pm. Nurses and MOs nice. Did 5 passive calls and 3 active calls already. Next active call tmrw. Passive call have to go to OT for emergency cases anytime. Active call have to see cases which come in via A+E and cover the wards after office hour. Luckily here got MAs to do CMR and POP. Glad to say at least I can insert Steinmann pin. Haven't done Ray's amputation and refashioning yet. Having aching limbs after carrying patient's leg in OT.
Alor Setar good for surgery and paeds. Ah Ngou in surgery now. The surgeons here do everything, even neurosurgery. HOs have to do at least 3 appendicectomies.
MC in O&G. Workload not too bad because can go back 4.30 pm if not on call. But said gynae nurses not so helpful.
Guan Fook having a very , very busy time in Medicine. Even have to go back to hosp. fr 8.00 -10.00 pm to do research for the department.
Food here o.k. Can get Malay food and Chinese food quite easily. Our house comfortable but don't have much time to clean it.
Great hearing from you guys. Will see you all during convo:)