12th month HO
I quote someone, "No one is more dangerous than the 12th month HO."
I disagree with that statement. The 12th month HO is in fact the safest HO, because the experienced HO knows how to handle the different scenarios that can happen to a patient and is able to institute immediate life-saving measures promptly. Other than being proficient in the daily procedures, he/she is also able to navigate the hospital administration and get urgent scans or operations arranged.
If I may alter the statement, "No one is more dangerous than a HO who doesn't care."
And that is the pitfall we must refrain from. Although the end seems near, patient care is ever ongoing. We cannot stop caring and must always do things in the interest of our patients.
Unexpected
When you least expect it, life turns around and whacks you in the face.If you take life for granted, it will disappear in an blink of an eyelid.Grab life by its horns, and learn to live every moment.Appreciate everything and everyone in life, and live without regrets.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In remembrance of a loving grandfather...
Yoga-man
Omm...
I feel really stretched and relaxed
Omm...
Even though it was expensive
Omm...
I think it's worth the experience
Changes
Go do your changes.
That's the term we use for the work that is ordered during the morning rounds.
It's encompasses a wide area of stuff, from:
- taking blood
- getting scans
- doing discharge summaries
- referrals and reviews
- updating family
- off drains, lines
- inserting lines
- summarising old notes
- retaking history
And I'm sure the list goes on and on.
But whatever the changes are, we just have to do it.
At the start, I used to wonder why some of the changes are ordered. And also their significance in the management of the patient.
But somewhere, somehow, along the way, I've stopped wondering.
Because sometimes changes are ordered too arbitary.
"We haven't done bloods for a week, let's repeat them."
"Go get this scan urgent. I want it by today."
"Refer this patient urgently for left little toe itch."
It doesn't matter what the changes are, we just have to do them.
It doesn't matter how useful they are, we just have to do them.
It's too routine, we don't have to think.
Just do them
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