Some Things...

...About Ward Work
check out this letter to the online forum. in summary, the writer is expressing her dissatisfaction of at receiving lousy service from local doctors, compared to those overseas. read also the comments made by the readers. it's not the first such letter, and it'll definitely not be the last. am too tired to blog properly but here are some thoughts:

1) medicine is really more of a service industry nowadays, rather than a noble profession.

2) people often demand too much, and this has nothing to do with respect to how much they pay to stay in the hospital. by "too much" i mean expecting the doctor/ team in charge to give their absolute attention, or for an instant diagnosis (after one x ray and one blood test) or for us to promise no complications during a procedure. doctors are humans, we need to spend time with the numerous patients that pass through the doors of a restructured hospital, we need time to investigate (however heard of a murder that was solved in a day?!) and only God can promise you "no complications".

many apologies if this sounds a bit harsh, but mumbler spent nearly two hours during exit rounds today dealing with something like these, so she is in a cynical mood. more accurately, it was the reg who did all the talking (hats off to him man, he was so composed throughout) and the two cases were very different, but by the time the rounds ended and our changes were settled, i was starting to question my ability to cope with such things for the rest of my career and wonder how much of medicine is treating people's anxieties/egos/misconceptions as opposed to curing illnesses.

...About People
mumbler is disappointed with some people. she saw it coming, but nothing quite prepares you for it. it seemed funny when parodied in our playhouse segment (that's for another post) but isn't so funny when it really happens.

cryptic thought: there are some things a girl knows, and can only keep to herself. what she can only do after that is to shrug it off and move on.