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Department of Medicine - Day 1

Hey  people!
Fasting and blogging don't really work well. So , here is one after a break.
First day at Osmania General Hospital was so typical.

The moment I enter the hospital , I see a corpse . Half a dozen people crying . Surprisingly , Like a cold blooded creature I moved ahead . 

After collecting my unit order , I moved towards the wards . The filthy path with  annoying arthropods and bad odour.I find a familiar face yet again ! Having  A familiar person your co intern is such a luxury . You have somebody to laugh along . You have somebody to share a bad experience. 

Both of us ran to check vitals. Nerve wreck, your ears don't work . No systole , no diastole . Hell yeah , I have Littman's but what if my ears stop listening to the roz ka BP song.

What was new?
Checking RBS ,  
memorising the room no.s for all the Investigation Departments (Microbiology , Pathology , Biochemistry) .
Filling up Arogyashree Forms . ( Oh God ! I did it ! )
Draining ascitic fluid .
More Injections . (Other than zofer ,rantac , Monocef )

Dumb Charades :
Interns are like doorbells . Everybody asks them stuff , and most of the times , they are clueless. This incident was one of a kind. 
A random person approaches me , give me a prescription , asks me to explain when medications are to be taken. I first thought to let go. But then , the good samaritan ( Ramzan Mubarak 🙈😜) wakes up and the conscience makes you to take up the task. 
The prescription had 7 drugs . 1 painkiller , 1 antacid  and the rest were all Vitamins. Who thought such placebos can be so taxing !
The game began. With all silly actions I explained him the drugs that had to be taken once daily. 
Then came the twice daily ones . He asked me to write the time on paper . So 9am , 9pm . Thumps up.
This was not enough. He was ready to eat up my head now . He wanted to me to explain as to why his clotting and bleeding time was low. Like really?  Dumb Charades for Bleeding and Clotting time . I sent him away. 

Z positive cases.
My college never harboured HIV positive cases , OGH has plenty of them. Out of a dozen patients admitted in our unit , 3 were Z positive. So , you arm yourself with double gloves .  
One of the patients was really kind enough to say :

Injection bohot acha diye doctor . Dard hi nahi hua . 😋

So far so much.



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