My third posting was O&G. yuck!!!!!! It’s the posting I hate the most. I hate the smell of liqua, the screaming mothers, the shouting nurses and the crying babies. But its compulsory of everyhouseman to go through it. I was lucky, because of the system making everybody going through O&G, we have more than enough of houseman in this posting. I was talking about 20 housemen at one time. Hahaha… So my calls weren’t that frequent. Maybe 4 to 6 calls a month. It was a drastic culture shock. I use to spend most of my time in the hospital. Busy and running about like a cartoon character. But here, I won’t deny it was busy but we had enough people to cover the business. Enough people in labour ward, in maternity, in gynea ward. Life was good. First time punching out at 5pm if I was not oncall. I actually had a life. I could go shopping, to the gym, hang out with friends, eat proper meals. WAH.!!!! This was heaven.
On call days, of cause was hell. In O&G, the labour ward does not sleep. Babies don’t actually have a schedule went they want to be delivered. They just come out when they want to. So on call days were hectic, emergencies LSCSs, big baby, TMSL, SMSL, cord prolapse (I had 2 cord prolapse) etc will happen when I am oncall. I am beginning to notice that I am “hot” (meaning – shitty thing will happen on my watch – even my MOs were afraid of me). But no matter how bad the call was, by 7am, an army of houseman will turn up at the door to relief us. So life was relatively better.
As much as I hate O&G, I enjoyed this posting. I got close to my MOs. Found my “drinking kaki” and my “clubbing kaki”. (as I said, u need a good support system). I guess I didn’t learn so much of O&G in the 4 months but more of life and there was much more to life rather than hospital life for a fellow doctor. I saw the light and got a glimpse of life.
Thank you.
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