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While some people have been attached to nice departments like pediatrics or gynaecology, yours truly here has been assigned to the foreign sounding department of gastroenterology and hepatology, which in other words means digestive tract and liver. So I spent 3 days surrounded by everything to do with our alimentary canal and liver, and of course picked up many medical jargon related to these:) Bet I'll forget everything by next week haha. So before my memory fails me (which it NEVER fails to do so these few weeks after the 'A' Levels), let me try and summarize my days there:
Day One:
Arrived at 8.15am (work officially starts at 8.30am), and tried to find the Medical Affairs Department. I found it fairly easy, and prided myself on my efficiency, and then got LOST trying to find the gastro department. I spent 30 minutes rushing around the hospital trying to find it. Finally found it at 9.05am. The doctor I was assigned to, Dr David Ong, was doing ward rounds with the team, so I tagged along, together with 2 other guys (one from NJ and the other RJ). It's gastro dpt's turn to do general medicine, so the wards were pretty far apart, hence accounting for the many walking around the hospital that we did. After that followed Dr Maxine around for follow-ups, and then spent the afternoon talking to this doctor with weird eyebrows, and an ultra friendly Indian MO from Mumbai University.
After work, i rushed to Orchard to meet my friends for dinner, and then they gave me a mini surprise birthday party!:DDD haha I'm super touched, and very grateful to know that they made the effort to remember and celebrate my birthday with me. (And today I'm going out again to meet Joy and Kaylyn for dinner to celebrate my birthday!:D)
Day Two:
Ward rounds in the morning again, then spent the rest of the morning in an endoscopy room with Dr Eric Wee (super NJ senior, in which "super" is an indication of his age and not his superiority; he was pretty unfriendly to me) looking at people's oesophagus, stomach and duodenums, and once, this ah ma's colon haha. Still got shit inside. Very eye-opening, and there was this nice nurse who explained alot of things to me, like telling me that duodenum is divided into 4 sections. And I noticed that the scope seem to be able to reach only D2.
Nothing much happened today though.
Day Three:
Ward rounds in the morning, then went to see a liver biopsy with Dr Thwin. He brought us to a gastro motility room too (no point elaborating what it is here). I spent the afternoon in the clinic with Dr Ong (we rotated so I got the last day's turn) and I helped changed the bed sheet's twice! Yeah! Super fun, better than sitting there just listening to the patients only. Because Dr Ong was on bleeder's call, after clinic he had to rush to do an OGD on this emergency patient, so I rushed along with him (poor feet) and this emergency guy, he ate about 4 hours ago, so there were still food debris in his fundus! And through the scope we could all see it; he ate something white that looked like rice from some angles and kway teow from others. Tumour board meeting after that which was interesting initially, then became boring, and I left before the last patient was being discussed. It was 6.30pm already can!
Haha, fun but tiring 3 days!
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Hello, my name is Mylene.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Okay I'm back from my 3 days of work attachment at NUH! It was super tiring; doctors walk so fast! These 2 years of rushing to the bus stop to catch 156 daily have served me well.While some people have been attached to nice departments like pediatrics or gynaecology, yours truly here has been assigned to the foreign sounding department of gastroenterology and hepatology, which in other words means digestive tract and liver. So I spent 3 days surrounded by everything to do with our alimentary canal and liver, and of course picked up many medical jargon related to these:) Bet I'll forget everything by next week haha. So before my memory fails me (which it NEVER fails to do so these few weeks after the 'A' Levels), let me try and summarize my days there:
Day One:
Arrived at 8.15am (work officially starts at 8.30am), and tried to find the Medical Affairs Department. I found it fairly easy, and prided myself on my efficiency, and then got LOST trying to find the gastro department. I spent 30 minutes rushing around the hospital trying to find it. Finally found it at 9.05am. The doctor I was assigned to, Dr David Ong, was doing ward rounds with the team, so I tagged along, together with 2 other guys (one from NJ and the other RJ). It's gastro dpt's turn to do general medicine, so the wards were pretty far apart, hence accounting for the many walking around the hospital that we did. After that followed Dr Maxine around for follow-ups, and then spent the afternoon talking to this doctor with weird eyebrows, and an ultra friendly Indian MO from Mumbai University.
After work, i rushed to Orchard to meet my friends for dinner, and then they gave me a mini surprise birthday party!:DDD haha I'm super touched, and very grateful to know that they made the effort to remember and celebrate my birthday with me. (And today I'm going out again to meet Joy and Kaylyn for dinner to celebrate my birthday!:D)
Day Two:
Ward rounds in the morning again, then spent the rest of the morning in an endoscopy room with Dr Eric Wee (super NJ senior, in which "super" is an indication of his age and not his superiority; he was pretty unfriendly to me) looking at people's oesophagus, stomach and duodenums, and once, this ah ma's colon haha. Still got shit inside. Very eye-opening, and there was this nice nurse who explained alot of things to me, like telling me that duodenum is divided into 4 sections. And I noticed that the scope seem to be able to reach only D2.
Nothing much happened today though.
Day Three:
Ward rounds in the morning, then went to see a liver biopsy with Dr Thwin. He brought us to a gastro motility room too (no point elaborating what it is here). I spent the afternoon in the clinic with Dr Ong (we rotated so I got the last day's turn) and I helped changed the bed sheet's twice! Yeah! Super fun, better than sitting there just listening to the patients only. Because Dr Ong was on bleeder's call, after clinic he had to rush to do an OGD on this emergency patient, so I rushed along with him (poor feet) and this emergency guy, he ate about 4 hours ago, so there were still food debris in his fundus! And through the scope we could all see it; he ate something white that looked like rice from some angles and kway teow from others. Tumour board meeting after that which was interesting initially, then became boring, and I left before the last patient was being discussed. It was 6.30pm already can!
Haha, fun but tiring 3 days!