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after 11 days non stop of slogging at work, with 1pm to 11pm shift last 7 days...so tired...tired to the point i became cranky.

For example. I usually bitch about nurses behind their back (with little remorse, oh come on. we all do), but i'm usually NICE when i'm with them, honestly, i am! (within reasonable means). But today i actually told 2 nurses off.

1st one bleeped me FIVE BLOODY minutes after one of her colleague called me to do the VERY SAME discharge script for a patient. I didnt shout la. i juz asked  'is it a script for so-and-so patient? your colleague juz called me 5 mins ago for the same thing. I'm in a middle of assessing this patient who's query PE (ie. someone who could DIE), I will get there as soon as i can'. phoah. good to get that off my chest. I wonder if she managed to detect the sarcasm in my tone.

2nd nurse called me at 10pm when i was in a middle of dealing with 2 sick patients (one with hyperkalaemia and another with renal failure (creatinine 900), again, both with far more urgency than what she was calling me for). 'Doctor, can you come and change this patient from our ward to the other ward on the computer screen? She has transferred there now.' wahliao. you kidding me ah. this close to tell her to f off. Out of my good-heartedness. i attempted to do it (i duno y either). Didnt manage. too bad. told her and told her off. It is the nurses/clerkess' job to manage all these. it is not my bloody responsibility to change the patient on computer screen for you.

the 3rd call. at 10.45pm. 'doctor, this patient is just post-op now, someone has written up painkillers for her but didn sign it (when medications are not signed by doctors, nurses cannot give it to the patients). wahliao. 无语 .................but have to say. not the nurse's fault la.

Good. glad that it's over.

Have to say, despite all those above, had quite a good time, ironically. Coz after 5pm, every1 else's gone home. Me alone till 11pm, have to deal with a lot of things. Therefore get to deal with a lot of medical issues, exciting ones, ones that you have to think and try can figure out what the patient has, get to become a REAL DOCTOR...(instead of doing all the paper works, discharge letter after discharge letters during the 8 - 5pm shift). yea...REAL DOCTOR.

going to prague on saturday for 5 days to unwind...(very timely)