13 Nov, 2024

Memoir of an intern Doctor… Day 94

Happy new year my beautiful people, and a happy new decade to you all. I wish you all your heart’s desires in this year. Also, I’m done with my 1 month Surgery rotation. Its been a rollacoaster…..a fun one. I don’t even know where all my previous fear disappeared to, all I know is that […]

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Memoir of an intern doctor….day 64

Day 2 in surgery. I was in surgical outpatient for the greatest part of the day. One patient who had been done a prostate biopsy about 2 weeks ago picked his histology results and brought them to my colleague for interpretation. The results were negative for malignancy. We expected this to be very good news […]

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Memoir of a medical intern…..day 63

From shooting prostate biopsies, to seeing a patient walking into casualty with a knife stab in his chest, and being late on day one . in my defense, I didn’t know these guys hold theatre morning meetings. I guess I’m forgiven but Damn! I like it already. Not that I like it because this young […]

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Memoir of an intern Doctor… Day 59

I had a hard laugh with a patient today. I have never laughed at a reason for why someone decided to seek health care, but this one killed me. Mother , 6 days in puerperium following cesarean section traveled 3 districts to reach here. Her concern was that her pain that disappeared completely and suddenly […]

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Memoir of an intern doctor…..day 58

Medical legal issues are becoming a thing in this country. I don’t know whether to attribute it to patients getting to know their rights or to the increasing rates of unemployment among lawyers….no offense lawyers, Doctors are unemployed too. So today, I witnessed an interesting senario. Lawyer X heard of a story about a certain […]

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Memoir of an intern doctor…..Day 53

In 8 days time, I’ll be moving over to Surgery for my 1 month rotation. But can I say I’m already worried. First of all, mass casualties freak me out. Then also people bleeding from any part of their body other than their vagina disturbs my brain( its the only bleeding I’m used to that’s […]

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