There are days when i REALLY wanna scream "f***. are u stupid or dumb?"

you are paid to solve problems. if i wanted someone to relay a message, i could easily get a computer.

1 simple telephone rule -

1) know what you are calling for

i absolutely cannot stand it when nurses, bankers or pretty much anyone calling me for something and throw me some weird ass term in their own language, and i paraphrase it back to simple english and ask that "does that mean this?" and they'll go like, "eh....hmm...orh...". if you dun bloody know what the term means, don't use it. and be prepared to answer my questions, not repeat the same term over and over again. hell, operator machines can do that. i dun need to pay someone a few thousand dollars to do this.

i think night calls seriously gives me a bloody short fuse now.

4 months into my posting. and i have come to a single conclusion

"Nurses - incompetent until proven otherwise"

but still the relationship between doctors and nurses is a fragile one, offend them and you nights can become nothing short of a living hell, but yet they are really times when they test my patience.

"doctors, i cant do a ecg cos im not certified". wtf made u think i was certified in doing a ecg? i just looked at the damn diagram and stuck the leads accordingly. what made you think i was trained in doing an episiotomy? i just practiced till i got it. granted, the first episiotomy had the hymen remnants seriously malaligned. for that, i apologise to the woman. you made the life of the womenfolk who came under my unfortunate hand that much better. and seriously, drawing bloods and setting plug also fall into the same category of "certification-before-i-can-do-it". and what benefits do they get in getting themselves accredited? nothing except more work, so what drives them to do it. NOTHING. so who sweeps up all these crap? the HOs. and now with all the residency shit, its seems like residents are now real doctors and HOs are nothing more than just a pair of hands/nurses/PCAs/porters/TLC/ah mas.

and even the most patient people have had their tempers tested to the extreme during a night call. when you have 2 new cases, 3 episiotomy repairs and 4 irritating midwives telling you "dr, i need to you to ink up postnatal meds for this patient URGENT. she is going up to the ward (and i'm going off. its the end of my shift)" there really is a well of emotions inside me threatening to burst out with a "FUCK YOU! just like you i have a pair of hands and there's only so much i can do. furthermore, some part of my work like clerking a new case involves some thinking and not yours which is mere carrying out instructions. there's no cortical activity involved in your work and there's like 1 of you for every 2 patients. i have 16 patients under me, and my MO refuses to clerk the case until i have seen it. so FUCK YOU VERY MUCH if you think inking up meds is urgent. "