Second Ortho Night Duty

i've changed my layout because some people had problems viewing my previous one. picked an orange-brown prefab from blogger but the code was all wonky so had to settle for this grey, windswept look.

had my second night duty yesterday. bad night for me, good for the team. it was a trickle of admissions and we even had the opportunity to go for dinner with the team on call. interesting conversation i must say, though we never strayed far from medical talk.

case in point: 68 year old man with parkinson's who tripped and fell and ended up with a neck of femur fracture. his wife has been taking care of him all these while, and now, he'll be wheelchair bound for the rest of his life. she kept saying to us, "he's taking up all my energy!" and one can't help but feel sorry for the both of them. i'm sure her husband did not want to be in this stiff and helpless state, but his current condition is sorely testing her patience. she felt that an operation would be a "cure" for his state, and was dismayed to hear that the surgeons were not keen to operate. his pd isn't very well controlled because he gets these weird hallucinations when the methyldopa is increased, so to prevent that, he's being put on a lower dose of the drug. it is unlikely that he'll be operated on, so i'm not sure how the family will cope with the turn of events.

am wondering how different night duty at the western hospital will be like.