casualty contd.........................

4 night duties and 15days after when i look back at casualty posting it has been the most fulfilling posting.....it has been satisfying on the professional as well as on personal front......
professionaly it is needless to say that exposure to patients first hand is a different feeling all together........thinkin of all the possibilites for causes and racking ur brain for the management and sometimes not knowing what to do and so finally ending up referring the cases to seniors or to respective wards.......one thing i learnt most about was acute gastroenteritis or vomiting and diarrohea for the uninitiated........not only did we see the spectrum of the illness from the most mild cases to the really serious almost dead patients..we learnt something else....something very basic which may not be of much use later iin life but at that time we were proud of it........"to excel in the art of inserting cannulas for intravenous lines" (or drips for those not aware of this terminology)........in order to rehydrate these patients we excelled in inserting cannulas.....in any size n shape; of both the cannula n the patient.....here i must thank a particular senior resident from orthopaedics who took pains to teach me how to insert the i.v. cannula correctly........i must say he was a very down to earth person.......he saw all patients ......he did not differentiate them into paediatric cases or surgical or medical..........he did not feel lowly to start iv lines himself when other senior doctors told us that it was a nurse's job n not theirs.......he made almost all diagnoses correct n among all the chaos n mob of patients he took out time to teach a few things here n there.....n mind you in case someone did not know the answer he did not undermine or humiliate that person........he even stayed up most of the time on the night shifts (when all most all seniors went off to sleep by 1 or 2)......n to know that he did his post graduation from PGI just bowled me over.......cause he was so humble........no airs about himself.......i salute u sir n i wish there were more like u......

on the personal front i made new friends-pav ....bonded with my college mate yani........all this while we never had had so much of interaction especially with someone from the college of the hospital....but both me and yani bonded well with pav.........infact pav was the first one to mention that we were just like them(them here refers to those who have done their mbbs from india).........n that we were a lil different from other externees.........probably cause we took our work seriously or maybe the fact that we actually worked!!.......... anyhow wot pav said really touched me .....he said he felt like we were one of them......he is a very down to earth person n really helpful....people like him are rare to find......he also gave us advice on how to tackle interns who dont work or give u trouble........well the talk on this issue started coz dev just wouldnt work........he would keep sitting there not doing anything........waiting till someone really picked him out to do the work....giving stupied excuses like he didnt hav his specs......we did many suturings.but he....i can count ....maybe not more than 5 times........n cannulas that too ......maybe 10 .........whereas our counts were too high to be counted........

anyhow casualty ended and i felt that i learnt quite a few things......n now that i look back im very satisfied with the way it turned out n with the way i completed it..........hope my other postings turn out like this one too...........(amen!!)