i had an ok day today but it got ruined by a shitty ward clerk..
i had to go to the wards today to get some investigation results for my case patient. and i had a blister as well..so i thot id get one of those sticky dots to stop my "antalgic gait". so i went to the ward, looking for a sticky dot..went to the nurses station..and found a nurse who asked me wat i was doing..i told her i was a medical student and wanted a sticky dot..then she asked me if i was taking blood and i said no, i just haf a blister..anyways she got it for me..then i went outside on the couches to put it on..then out comes the ward clerk with that nurse, telling me off..saying how i can't just enter the nurse's station..and how i have to ask for permission cos apparently ppl haf been stealing drugs etc etc..(i already didnt have a very good impression of this particular ward clerk prior to this incident so i wasn't very happy already) but anyways, i persevered and then asked this ward clerk if i could go into the nurse's station to look up some results on the computer..then she tells me no i shouldnt cos they're really busy at the moment blah blah blah..(there was no one in the nurse's station when i went in before) then she tells me to try the other ward..at this point, i was like ok watever woman! so i went to the other ward and decided fine, i'll ask for "permission" to enter the nurse's station..except this time this ward clerk looked at me strangely and said to ask one of the nurses..who then told me to ask the house surgeon who very kindly gave me eclair access..so in the end i did get my patient's results..no thanks to the bitchy ward clerk!
the point of me venting my frustration is dat when did medical students ever need to ask for permission to enter the nurse's station?!?! how are we meant to do our cases if we can't even access patient files or even the computers for radiology and results? i felt so demoralised after my encounter with the evil ward clerk..medical students get treated like crap! we r seriously at the bottom of the hierachy..even the ward clerk gets to tell us off..wat is the world coming to? and we are paying high education fees to learn how to get treated like crap..
doctors may get treated like Gods but medical students def get treated like shit..medicine is so overrated..sometimes i question myself why did i even get myself in this situation..
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man. that tot sux. even tho i dun do med i think i cn appreciate how u feel. just coz students r the only 1s they can pick on aye! it's like that w some of the DAs at dent skol..there's no politeness there aye...n since u can't tel them to shut up...u just have to keep breathing n swallow the crap. ARRR~~ it's good we can often hide our expressions under the mask tho~ :p
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