First Day in Wards
Running through the crowded corridors to the Medicine Head's room. On reaching there the horror which was foretold revealed one after other before us. And here stopped the bunking of classes and after that it winded to just 2 classes in 3 months and that too with leave letter and explanation.
To the ultimate horror it was our unit's OP day plus the day before ie sunday was also an OP day. So the wards were thronging with people both on the bed and below it too. Another thing added to it that the House Surgeon batch has not arrived in the college after the results. So all the work on us + final years + post graduates. And when we reached one of the seniors called and asked us to see the procedure of putting a urinary catheter so that we can do it then and throughout the night.
In the meantime pg's demonstrated how to draw blood in syringe. Gloves, not very common in the wards, but being the first ward (belonging to HOD) we had atleast one for the day. Took a syringe, cotton and some betadine and the bottles and stood before the bed. Whatever they asked the only reply was 'No Problem, It would be all right'
Then tapping repeatedly to draw out the hidden veins. On seeing some taps it seems as though the veins are deep under the muscles and that we are straining to take them out. It would be then the patients will be saying that the last doctor took it very easily. Now imagining something to be a vein, and struggling to keep the shaking needle tip right over that its inserted. But blood is not coming, so as told keeping the needle inside rotating the needle round and pricking again at last it would come somehow.
And it would be while pouring it into the bottle, the bystander would say 'It was only just now that someone took blood'. And needle pricks and pouring out the whole blood on the floor by slipping out the syringe piston and dropping the bottle was also too common.
It would be better to talk in English, so that others would believe we know something and they dont understand our troubles. Nauseating smells and occasional hepatitis patients and uncops( as we call non cooperating patients) adds to the problems.
And day slips to night, but there is no stop in flow of patients. And occasional catheterings. Told each time that it should be extra sterile to avoid any urinary tract infection, but at last after losing several catheters on ground learns to concentrate more on procedure than on sterility. It would be while doing the thing that one remembers he forgot to take something and rushes to the nurses room. Only on seeing female ut, that one would believe how easy it was to put a male catheter. Finding the ureter, to the cleanliness it was horrendous.
Looking at the face of pg's there was no response at all. And at 5 am we got the courage to ask them to leave. Then they would say 'we were thinking why didnt you ask before'
To the ultimate horror it was our unit's OP day plus the day before ie sunday was also an OP day. So the wards were thronging with people both on the bed and below it too. Another thing added to it that the House Surgeon batch has not arrived in the college after the results. So all the work on us + final years + post graduates. And when we reached one of the seniors called and asked us to see the procedure of putting a urinary catheter so that we can do it then and throughout the night.
In the meantime pg's demonstrated how to draw blood in syringe. Gloves, not very common in the wards, but being the first ward (belonging to HOD) we had atleast one for the day. Took a syringe, cotton and some betadine and the bottles and stood before the bed. Whatever they asked the only reply was 'No Problem, It would be all right'
Then tapping repeatedly to draw out the hidden veins. On seeing some taps it seems as though the veins are deep under the muscles and that we are straining to take them out. It would be then the patients will be saying that the last doctor took it very easily. Now imagining something to be a vein, and struggling to keep the shaking needle tip right over that its inserted. But blood is not coming, so as told keeping the needle inside rotating the needle round and pricking again at last it would come somehow.
And it would be while pouring it into the bottle, the bystander would say 'It was only just now that someone took blood'. And needle pricks and pouring out the whole blood on the floor by slipping out the syringe piston and dropping the bottle was also too common.
It would be better to talk in English, so that others would believe we know something and they dont understand our troubles. Nauseating smells and occasional hepatitis patients and uncops( as we call non cooperating patients) adds to the problems.
And day slips to night, but there is no stop in flow of patients. And occasional catheterings. Told each time that it should be extra sterile to avoid any urinary tract infection, but at last after losing several catheters on ground learns to concentrate more on procedure than on sterility. It would be while doing the thing that one remembers he forgot to take something and rushes to the nurses room. Only on seeing female ut, that one would believe how easy it was to put a male catheter. Finding the ureter, to the cleanliness it was horrendous.
Looking at the face of pg's there was no response at all. And at 5 am we got the courage to ask them to leave. Then they would say 'we were thinking why didnt you ask before'
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