long time since i feel this tired during on call. think my passive call today was worse than my active call yesterday. it's nothing extraordinary yesterday, with admissions for accidents and head injury, appendix, abdomen pain and, of course, upper gastrointestinal bleeding. done 2 OGDS (stomach camera), 2 operation, see CT scan for head injury and managing pt in full blown sepsis (severe infection). hardly anytime to sit down n rest my legs. but somehow manage to pull through the nite, although didnt get much sleep.
but really, the ward turned into nightmare today. so many admissions in the morning into our female ward. we have 9 elective admissions for operation tomorrow. 3 of them manage to be shifted to second class ward in another ward, but still we have extension of 6 in ward 17( and it is still before 5 pm). pt have to be placed in the middle of hallway and corridor near the toilet. so uncomfortable to both pt and working staffs. then i began my second call by starting a laparotomy case (major case for abdominal injury) early in the morning (w/ my specialist of course) and later have to review pts in periphery wards till 1 pm, before breaking off for a quick lunch and came back to hospital for another 2 urgent OGDS for bleeding cases. my colleague who is active call today started his marathon of appendix in operation theatre since morning. one of the scope i repeated on the same pt i scoped last night coz she bled from the site we took biopsy for tissue study. though the biopsy was indicated, i felt half-regretted for doing the biopsy for her.
i was stucked in the hospital till 5 something before i had chance to go home n took nap of 2 hours, before coming back to hospital to review a referral from medical department. my active call colleague finally came out from operation theatre and hopefully he wont need me to go back to the hospital tonight. the ward was so bad that three of our surgeons took turn to drop by and making sure e/thing is fine.
tomorrow i'm going to be elective operation for the whole day. though i'm not a religious person, but, oh well, God bless me to have good night sleep tonight. :P
Andrew Lee @ AGT & BGT
6 years ago