Memoir of an intern doctor …day 49
My night duty and I loooved it. Very calm night. I got some sleep this time round. Maybe 3 hours . I loved it. I also love the fact that I haven’t complained about internship in days 😊
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Memoir of an intern doctor…..day 48
My colleague and friend (fellow intern doctor) has been having evening fevers, chills, general body weakness for the past 2 weeks. Strikingly, the evening fever patterns. She tested negative for all possible illnesses we could think of , but they were negative. We blamed it on fatigue. Her supervisor gave her a day off work, […]
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Memoir of a doctor intern….day 47
Its every student’s joy when their teacher complements their work. Its every Doctor’s joy when a senior doctor/ specialist complements their work. I was in these shoes today. I’ll tell you about it. Every Saturday morning, we hold CMEs as a hospital. The entire staff is there and every department takes turns presenting. One department […]
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Memoir of an intern doctor…..day 46
I can’t complain about work today, maybe the fact that I miss matooke. This part of the country doesn’t have much of it. Today we pulled off our first “party” as interns. We organised a birthday something for one of our colleagues. It was a good laugh. The best we’ve had all our time here […]
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Memoir of an intern Doctor…days 43, 44, 45
I knowww, I didn’t live 3 days in one, but honestly speaking, I feel like I did. Past 3 days, this could be the first time I’m sobber and not worried about who hasn’t had their ECHO done or whose hyperkalemia isn’t going down despite doing everything possibly available, and why a 90 year old […]
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Memoir of an intern doctor…day 42
Today, I had quite some pain to share, but I learnt of a friend’s illness 2 days ago. I somehow have forgotten about my own. My friend Emeru, 25 year old, very fit athlete with both an ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction, which he got following months of battling nephritic syndrome. He just finished school. […]
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Memoir of an intern Doctor…day 41
my colleagues and I decided last night that we’d wake up at 6am today and start the ward round so we get to finish very early and go to church for the first time this internship. We woke up, did everything as planned. But we didn’t make it to church. Somehow we failed to make […]
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Memoir of an intern doctor…. Day 40
We know no weekends. And we have accepted that. We are not complaining, just reminding our dear friends and families that we love you dearly even when we don’t call you much or make it to planned getaways and parties. We still love you. 325 days to go
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Memoir of an intern doctor….day 39
Today was good. I was sobber, I was alive and I believe I made the best decisions for my patients.
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Memoir of a doctor intern…..day 38
I completed my 30hours shift of no sleep but work today. Started my day yesterday and worked all through to the night . the night was very busy , so I got no sleep till morning and just crossed over to another day’s work. I actually got to shower at 11am the next day and […]
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