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.