Working Girl

N.B.:Some of the visual pictures in the last paragraph may be graphic and a bit gross.Parental Guidance is advised for this post.
Maybe "errand girl" would be more apt.I'm now posted in Paediatrics but I never get to do any cool stuff any more.My job description involves mainly tracing reports(no,I don't draw them out)ie I have to go to the required department and look for the required report and bring it back!Isn't that exciting?Just what I always dreamed of doing when I finally finished studying!The closest I come to anything clinical is the four hourly blood pressure montoring(something that we learnt in first year,isn't that exciting!)which I'm supposed to lose sleep over.And let us not forget the all important work of escorting patients to various OPDs or getting sanctions from the AMO(still not sure what that means) to make a particular investigation free.I almost forgot...every emergency day we have to see that each patient has soap...can you believe that...soap and if they can't get it get it for them somehow!
Yours truly has been elected "intern to be most tortured".I have the dubious honour of being the intern in charge of family screening.This means that if any child with tuberculosis is admitted(God!How I dread that!)I have to go through an extremely laborious procedure to get them tested for the same(because obviously the alternative would entail less work for the interns)rather than get them to do it themselves.
Luckily for me,when it rains,it doesn't really pour,unless its actually raining in Bombay because we all know how that ends nowadays(Yes,I love mixing my metaphors and making horrible puns!).On a reference to Neurosurgery,I got to witness a ventricular tap.For the non medicos,that means I got to watch the extra fluid around the brain being drained off...a simple but really cool procedure(no comments about sadism)especially when performed by a competent and skilled professional and a one which I would neber have seen as an intern otherwise.And for someone who's interested in Surgery,it was like the heavens had opened and pored their blessings down on me(there I go again with another metaphor aout the rain).
So,on the whole,this posting hasn't been too bad...and if I'm stiil posting in two weeks,that means I made it out alive in one piece,only to be overwhelmed by Obstetrics & Gynaecology.The light at the end of the tunnel...my Surgery posting seems to be sooooo far away!

Liff As I Know It!