Wow,exciting and exhausted but still forced myself to blog.Its the 2nd day,we were posted at the paediatrics department!The day started as usual except for the part that they didn't provide us with breakfast.Well,no a big deal anyway.Group 1 including me headed wtih Sister Zaleha to the paediatrics clinic at the main polyclinic.Upon arrival,we were introduced to the Doctors before heading to watch our first follow up check up.A specialist and her housemen were conducting them.The 1st patient was a small Malay girl with the urinary tract infection.The cool part was the doctor approached the girl in a very friendly manner and it was like the girl was not on a visit to a doctor,more like a niece visiting an aunt.The 2nd patient was an Indian girl with a bacterial infection and was on antibiotics and another Chinese boy was having backaches.He was laughing all the way when the doctor was examining him,he felt the tingles i guess.LOL.And lastly,the fourth room was very interesting.A housemen was retriving a blood sample from a small girl,and we were suprised that it was totally a different procedure from the adults.The only thing I can explain is that they don't use a syringe at all.WEIRD BUT TRUE.Sorry,but I cant really explain the procedure.Anyways,the housemen had a very good advice for us,D IS FOR DEDICATION AND THAT IS ALL IS NEEDED IN MEDICINE.
After that,we headed to the paediatric wards at block A and block B.Owh yeah,before i forget,Sister Zaleha was explaining to me on how the cannister system works.Well,basically you just dial the number of the department you want the specimens to be sent(such as blood sample or urine sample)and place the cannister inside the machine that kinda like 'teleport' the stuff out.Then,wait for a moment at the cannister just goes out from sight.Simply superb.They started thsi system in 2004.Then,we just visited some patients in the childrens wards,and met a couple of Monash University students who were doing their rounds.They were kinda busy,but still managed to spend some time with us,explaining life in med school.About 12.30pm we headed to the cafeteria to have lunch and the best part was we really blended in like Doctors.HAHA.nice.
After lunch,we straight headed to the paed wards again to have a look at the semi ICU wards where all the new born babies were.Some of them were alright while some were premature and had some complications.The 1st section was for premature babies,and another a isolated ward for babies with penyakit berjangkit such as chicken pox.We looked around and saw so many babies.Some were healthy and ready to go back home while some had certain cases such as genetic diseases involving enzyme production.There was even a baby with severe jaundice and her skin was all yellow in colour!Premature babies about 800 grams and above can still survive in HSAJB but in foreign countries,babies at 400 grams may even survive with advance medical equipments.For a baby to leave hospital safely without any other complications,they had to be more that 1.8 kilograms.And yeah,the price of an incubator for one night is almost RM 1000.00 in private hospitals,but in the government its free.Great!And yeah,before i forgot,we 'lepaked' at the doctor's room for a while and found an MRCP past year papers book.Its a specialization course for doctors and the questions are all about diagnostics and treatment method.Wow,at least I even got to see a past year medical course paper.So cool.(Rather than past year SPM papers)LOL.Well,thats all for the 2nd day,not too interesting but really a knowledgeble one.I will keep everyone posted for the 3rd day!Signing off,Dr Suman Pillai.LOL.(Feeling like one already)!
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