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.