I am the New Rotamah Intern

The ward that I am looking after, Rotamah ward has medical, surgical, paeds and obstetric patients. I have 5-6 GP consultants coming in the morning to do ward rounds. Seriously, they all look almost the same...and I just cant remember their names, not to mention which patient is under their care. It took me 2 days to finally create my own patient list so that I get to update my list everyday like any other metropolitan intern :P But the GPs are way too efficient, probably because they are used to do all the clerical stuff by themselves (write progress notes, discharge summaries, medication charts, pathology and radiology slips) because they used to have only 2 interns covering the whole hospital wards, this year we have 4. I bet they are going to get spoilt by me...wahaha!

The nurses of my ward introduced me to other people, "Have you met YS? She is our new intern. We have our own intern now!" I guess I should be happy that I am owned by Rotamah? But they are really nice people, and they are very experienced, can do almost everything, except for signing the drug chart :P And thats what I am here for :)

Besides Rotamah, I also cover the dialysis and oncology units. I will get paged when they need a doctor to write up medications or to review patient who is not quite right.

When I get asked questions that I don't know, I always call for senior help :) I think this is probably the most useful bit that medical school taught me.

I spend more time writing drug charts, discharge prescriptions, discharge summaries, looking up results...than talking to or examining my patients. It's sad, but a doctor told me before, an intern is someone who can perform clerical jobs with a medical head. I can't agree more! Hopefully, after I have picked up all the skills of doing clerical work, I will have more time to spend with my patients :)