The ortho ward

I would say that my oncall didn't turn out so well... I was sooo overwhelmed by how crowded the ortho ward was just now... and it was so unbelievably hot! And the familiar odour from my 1st experience in the surgical ward from 3rd year... Poor patients... and each patient had average 2-3 relatives around them, their body heat contributing to the unpleasantness... the hospital's really not strict at all with the visiting hours... people just walking in and out, noisy too... the conversations and the handphones (aarrgghhh!)... I couldn't even talk to all my allocated patients... only managed to talk to 2 of them... so I figured since I couldn't do much, I packed my stuff and left... planning to go earlier tomorrow morning to check out the rest of my allocated patients.

And there's this very consultoid houseman who tried to "boss" us around, but fortunately she didn't make it very far because she's too busy... she's such a joke... remind me NEVER to make such an ass of myself when I start my housemanship.

I'm better off studying tonight. Besides I have clinic tomorrow morning...

On a lighter note, I discovered that Yang was a photography buff today! I never knew... we were in the same posting for the 9 months and I never knew... I was actually hiding away in the Paeds room studying when suddenly he appeared out of nowhere (my faculty's big you see, so it's quite a coincidence that we chose the same place to study) and we just started catching up and suddenly we both realized that we're into cameras and stuff... so I think we chatted about cameras for close to 2 hours??? Very disturbed...

He has the Panasonic Lumix FZ20! So he's rooting for the FZ30! But I guess my heart's set on the Canon S2... it has more of the "gimmick" features I would use instead of the more technical and "pro" or SLR-like FZ30, which by the way cost RM400 more! But I'm in the process of checking out the other Panasonic models... and I'll probably pay Yang a visit this weekend to check his baby out.

And finally of course today poor Raj was telling me about his brush with shameful racism here, here in Kuching... I was appalled, but tried to not to be worked up about it... I didn't really know how to console Raj... just hopefully my listening ear was comforting enough for him...

Good night!