DONE DONE DONE...
...DONE with my pedia rotation! Wheeeeee!! Actually, I only feel like I'm done, but i'm only halfway through. I couldn't stand being inside FEU anymore, and I'm done with FEU's pedia department so I feel GREAT! GREAT!!!
My last rotation was the NICU (neonatal ICU), where the babies were soooo cute. My responsibilities included "catch"-ing the baby (from when they come out of the mother's womb) and newborn care, I got to make cord care on three babies! That means I measure and weigh them, then clean the umbilical cord and cut it off! And lastly, inject Vitamin K so they don't bleed spontaneously. I felt like such an important figure in their short lives! Haha
And then, the +++ of the job, I got to pick them up and play with them whenever I felt like it (and then put them back in their cribs when I was tired). Even if those stupid nurses keep insisting that we don't pick up the babies because they cry. MGA GAGA KAYO. If there's toys and you're bored, won't you play? If there's food and you're hungry, won't you eat? If there's clothes and you're... teka, I lost the point of my analogy.
Anyway, it got me thinking, how many of those babies kaya think I'm their father? They spent much more time with me in their first 2-3 days of life than they did with their parents. *I* picked them up when they were crying. *I* burped them. *I* stroked their faces and tickled their feet for my enjoyment.
Fun as it was, I'm glad it's over. The hassle of it was those babies LOVE being born in the wee hours of the morning. I wonder what's up with that?
Either way, now I can say, FUCK YOU PEDIA DEPARTMENT. Kiss my ass!! (To follow is a short -- but informative -- rant, you may skip it)
In that department, the residents are waaaay too serious, and they're really hateful. They pick and they pick and they pick until you're so fucking tired already, and then they continue to pick.
I know they, in turn, are also getting picked on. By the consultants. They live in perpetual fear of the consultants. That they might not live up to expectations, that they might do something not to the consultants' liking. Fear fuels their every move. And gosh, to say they have their lips glued to consultant asses' (note the plurality) would be an understatement.
There's a hierarchy that you cannot NOT notice, even as an outsider. We interns on the bottom, residents juggling their shitload of work, while trying to please their higher-ups, the consultants. How blatant the hierarchy is, that's hard to explain with words.
But, WHATEVER!!!! Right?! I'm out of there! And I never have to return, unless I choose to! :o))) (well, except for make-up, i accumulated about 5 days worth of make-up, but that can wait)
Now I'm at Children's Medical Center (aka Fe del Mundo Medical Center), which is in Banawe. Named after the innovator of the incubator, I thought it would be a really impressive hospital with lots and lots of patients. And me in the center, soaking it all up. :o) hehe.
It's not hahaha.
It's a relatively tiny hospital, with more employees than doctors. There's no other interns rotating there besides us, very few patients, no interns' lounge to speak of, and there's no where to eat!! Hahah, it's gonna be a lonely two weeks.
The residents are great! They're so nice and they treat us almost like their equals. I was shocked when I didn't get screamed at or na-sungitan as soon as I arrived. I was more shocked upon hearing the residents talk to their consultants as if they were friends! No half-bowing, no po's or kayo's. Great!!
That relaxed environment is so much more me than stupid, uptight FEU is!
Pero in fairness, it's quite noticeable that the FEU residents, besides being more tense and strict, seem more... competent. I know it's only been one day, but we all noticed kagad haha.
Today we had a lecture on Neuro. The chief resident reported. It was basic stuff, konti lang na-pick up ko because paulit ulit na that info, I know it by heart. I even got to answer a few of the consultants' questions. :o)
There was a post-test. Well, the consultant said that the residents had better score higher than us interns, or else...
They didn't. :oP hehehe. The residents were so cute! They were copying, and they were saying they didn't know the answer haha. Kala ko nagpapatawa lang, di pala! The one question was: what is the function of the medial recti muscles? One resident answered "duling-s eyes" hahaha. I love it!
(In fairness to them, Neuro isn't their specialty, they're pediatricians, and they seemed competent dealing with the patients).
The next couple weeks might be boring, but it'll definitely be relaxed! Which I'll need before my next rotation, the dreaded Jose Reyes. The smelliest and busiest public hospital known to mankind... *gulp*
My last rotation was the NICU (neonatal ICU), where the babies were soooo cute. My responsibilities included "catch"-ing the baby (from when they come out of the mother's womb) and newborn care, I got to make cord care on three babies! That means I measure and weigh them, then clean the umbilical cord and cut it off! And lastly, inject Vitamin K so they don't bleed spontaneously. I felt like such an important figure in their short lives! Haha
And then, the +++ of the job, I got to pick them up and play with them whenever I felt like it (and then put them back in their cribs when I was tired). Even if those stupid nurses keep insisting that we don't pick up the babies because they cry. MGA GAGA KAYO. If there's toys and you're bored, won't you play? If there's food and you're hungry, won't you eat? If there's clothes and you're... teka, I lost the point of my analogy.
Anyway, it got me thinking, how many of those babies kaya think I'm their father? They spent much more time with me in their first 2-3 days of life than they did with their parents. *I* picked them up when they were crying. *I* burped them. *I* stroked their faces and tickled their feet for my enjoyment.
Fun as it was, I'm glad it's over. The hassle of it was those babies LOVE being born in the wee hours of the morning. I wonder what's up with that?
Either way, now I can say, FUCK YOU PEDIA DEPARTMENT. Kiss my ass!! (To follow is a short -- but informative -- rant, you may skip it)
In that department, the residents are waaaay too serious, and they're really hateful. They pick and they pick and they pick until you're so fucking tired already, and then they continue to pick.
I know they, in turn, are also getting picked on. By the consultants. They live in perpetual fear of the consultants. That they might not live up to expectations, that they might do something not to the consultants' liking. Fear fuels their every move. And gosh, to say they have their lips glued to consultant asses' (note the plurality) would be an understatement.
There's a hierarchy that you cannot NOT notice, even as an outsider. We interns on the bottom, residents juggling their shitload of work, while trying to please their higher-ups, the consultants. How blatant the hierarchy is, that's hard to explain with words.
But, WHATEVER!!!! Right?! I'm out of there! And I never have to return, unless I choose to! :o))) (well, except for make-up, i accumulated about 5 days worth of make-up, but that can wait)
Now I'm at Children's Medical Center (aka Fe del Mundo Medical Center), which is in Banawe. Named after the innovator of the incubator, I thought it would be a really impressive hospital with lots and lots of patients. And me in the center, soaking it all up. :o) hehe.
It's not hahaha.
It's a relatively tiny hospital, with more employees than doctors. There's no other interns rotating there besides us, very few patients, no interns' lounge to speak of, and there's no where to eat!! Hahah, it's gonna be a lonely two weeks.
The residents are great! They're so nice and they treat us almost like their equals. I was shocked when I didn't get screamed at or na-sungitan as soon as I arrived. I was more shocked upon hearing the residents talk to their consultants as if they were friends! No half-bowing, no po's or kayo's. Great!!
That relaxed environment is so much more me than stupid, uptight FEU is!
Pero in fairness, it's quite noticeable that the FEU residents, besides being more tense and strict, seem more... competent. I know it's only been one day, but we all noticed kagad haha.
Today we had a lecture on Neuro. The chief resident reported. It was basic stuff, konti lang na-pick up ko because paulit ulit na that info, I know it by heart. I even got to answer a few of the consultants' questions. :o)
There was a post-test. Well, the consultant said that the residents had better score higher than us interns, or else...
They didn't. :oP hehehe. The residents were so cute! They were copying, and they were saying they didn't know the answer haha. Kala ko nagpapatawa lang, di pala! The one question was: what is the function of the medial recti muscles? One resident answered "duling-s eyes" hahaha. I love it!
(In fairness to them, Neuro isn't their specialty, they're pediatricians, and they seemed competent dealing with the patients).
The next couple weeks might be boring, but it'll definitely be relaxed! Which I'll need before my next rotation, the dreaded Jose Reyes. The smelliest and busiest public hospital known to mankind... *gulp*