Reflections

I think after 4mths of being in close proximity for long hours with the people i work with (or rather *cough* work for), some of their temperament has sort of rubbed off on me.
I've become much more impatient and have gained something of a bad temper.
I want things to be done stat.
I get mildly PO-ed when people dilly-dally when things can be done in half the time.
I multi-task such that everytime i sit down to do a discharge/write blue letters, i just have to talk to the other HOs in the vicinity (even the orthopods) or the nurses.
I get VERY angry when my post-exit time gets wasted by people/ridiculous calls from nurses when all i want to do is to finish my changes, get the list done and get out of the hospital asap. This irritation increases exponentially after 7.30pm.
I get twitchy when ward rounds are too slow.
Everything i do during call is done with the motivation of getting the patient into OT ASAP and facilitating discharge the next day.

I blame it all on the past 3.5months. I used to be so nice and patient and mild manner-ed lor!
But that said, I would really really really really miss the department after i'm gone. Really, I could not have asked for a friendlier working environment and i really enjoyed the cammeraderie betw the HOs and even with the seniors and bosses.

It's so nice to lend a much appreciated helping hand to a colleague whom you know is just dying under the workload.
Or have someone else help you so that we can all go off early tog or go for lunch tog.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

It was the medical students' last day with us on fri, and i was very touched and surprised to receive cards and sweets and chocolates from various groups of them. Some i dun even recognise.
I felt so bad that they are thanking me for working them like slaves, and i didnt even teach them much cos i was too busy.
Thus they have successfully guilted me into promising to give them tutorials in their medical posting, what i didn't realise until too late is that they will ALL be going to the same hospital next month. Oops! Hope they dun remember my phone number.
Speaking of which, I found out with my very own eyes that they actually have a TV in their lounge!!!! WTH!!! Hmmph!!!
Ph and I sneaked into their lounge and watched the China-Sin table tennis match with all the medical students on their last day, which was a welcome change from watching the Olympics in our fav patients room during rounds and TDS (that's another story for another day).

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have so many other things to blog abt my time here, its been really quite fun. Like the adrenaline high we get when we managed to get lunch successfully. Or that time i gathered the other teams' HOs on an impromptu outside lunch and we got well and truly caught by my bosses no less ("horrr! Caught you! How ARE the patients?"). (And a few nurses: "Jamie, just now afternoon i saw you all outside eating lunch leh!") How we have our fav theme song that i would start humming whenever it's time to visit a certain patient.

But i'm too tired now, cos i'm post post call.