The First Week of PGI
What has been my first week like as a PGI? It has been a week-long roller coster ride for me personally. After a month of furlow from work and pressure, it's back to the factory again, but this time only in a much better suit. Not only that, you get three free meals a day, have time to take a bath in the morning and still look OD(on duty) even if you're FD (from duty). But it has to take at least one week for the body to re-adjust and shift from vacation mode to work mode.
We were criticized for choosing the more lenient hospital as our hospital for training. Among the leading hospitals in the city, BOLMSH is perhaps less "toxic" when it comes to work load and pressure. CLMMRH is bluntly likened to the fiery shores of Hell, where souls experience beyond mortal torments and tortures. Riverside Medical Center is almost like CLMMRH but you get paid for the tortures they give you. BOLMSH is Paradiso! We PGIs may not remember every admitting orders we need to remember but there are at least two special orders we are quite familiar with, "Fast Drip saliva while sleeping" and "Log Roll q2 hours everytime while sleeping without fail!"
But it is not always just play time! We also encounter strict consultants and less sympathetic junior consultants. We also experience a generous bit of discipline and work. And we made it a point NOT to enjoy our stay in BOLMSH. We study too and open our books, make notes and do rounds early in the morning with consultants from the basement to the 5th floor of the hospital. We get reprimanded too and we are not spared from the criticisms. But there is something magical about this place that even in the middle of reprimand and critiques, we can still manage to smile, laugh in every cracked joke and infiltrate every corner of the hospital with our happy-go-lucky attitude.
Sometimes, some of our consultants think this "happy-go-lucky attitude" implies less seriousness and devotion in our part towards work and the commitment to physician-hood. What they don't know that we too feel the pressure but we don't make it obvious.
One week has gone by and 51 weeks more to go.
We were criticized for choosing the more lenient hospital as our hospital for training. Among the leading hospitals in the city, BOLMSH is perhaps less "toxic" when it comes to work load and pressure. CLMMRH is bluntly likened to the fiery shores of Hell, where souls experience beyond mortal torments and tortures. Riverside Medical Center is almost like CLMMRH but you get paid for the tortures they give you. BOLMSH is Paradiso! We PGIs may not remember every admitting orders we need to remember but there are at least two special orders we are quite familiar with, "Fast Drip saliva while sleeping" and "Log Roll q2 hours everytime while sleeping without fail!"
But it is not always just play time! We also encounter strict consultants and less sympathetic junior consultants. We also experience a generous bit of discipline and work. And we made it a point NOT to enjoy our stay in BOLMSH. We study too and open our books, make notes and do rounds early in the morning with consultants from the basement to the 5th floor of the hospital. We get reprimanded too and we are not spared from the criticisms. But there is something magical about this place that even in the middle of reprimand and critiques, we can still manage to smile, laugh in every cracked joke and infiltrate every corner of the hospital with our happy-go-lucky attitude.
Sometimes, some of our consultants think this "happy-go-lucky attitude" implies less seriousness and devotion in our part towards work and the commitment to physician-hood. What they don't know that we too feel the pressure but we don't make it obvious.
One week has gone by and 51 weeks more to go.
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