Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Sights and sounds from a mortality meeting

"So this week we have a couple of old people who dropped dead. Not interesting.. next."
"Clearly there is a lack of brain in this room!"
"Next time call the specialist because the cardiology MO didn't know how to read ECG, he will look at it and tell u 'don't worry, coz it's N-O-T-H-I-N-G..!'"
"You are all USELESS and HOPELESS, do you know that? The whole town knows it, all 13 states in Malaysia knows it.. can you get any more famous than that?"
"Why do you guys put a TB/H1N1 patient who is coughing away left-right-centre in the SAME cubicle with the HIV/immunocompromised patients??!!"
"Renal failure patient from another hospital, choked on a piece of bread while undergoing haemodialysis. Intubated, CPR unsuccessful, sent to our hospital and died. Nobody know how to do Heimlich Manoeuvre ar?"
"Renal failure patient, started on medication for gout (supposed to stop when gout resolves or patient develops diarrhoea).. houseman copied the 3-times daily dose onto the prescription slip for discharge for 3 months. So the patient being a stupid fellow kept on taking lar despite having diarrhoea. Later admitted to hospital urea and creatinine was sky high and you go and pump in fluids on the assumption patient was dehydrated?? Patient developed myocardial infarction and died in the ICU."

And people wonder why MOs and Housemen kept telling me off over the past couple of weeks "Don't be stupid enough to think of working here - it's like a MAD house."

2 comments:

Alex Tang said...

It may be chaotic and a MAD house but at least some people are saved.

GaRy said...

I suppose if we don't see the bright side of things, who would? :-)