Day 4 of a long 2 weeks, with a weekend call right in the middle. Many ppl tell me that O&G is a very slack posting, get to go home at 4.30, calls you do nothing, etc etc. But i rather think not so. It's probably true dat u can relli slack and probably just fulfil ur duties as a HO, which is not dat little btw (i only finish the changes at 6pm today), since a lot of the responsibility rest on the hands of the MO instead. In fact, there is very little we can do. I was hoping someone would teach me how to VE someone, but apparantly we are not allowed to do dat.

I think, it's a question of how involved you want to be. You can relli be part of the team, or u can just be a scribe-bloodsucker-formfiller-drugprescriber. Quite enjoy working with ppl i dun usually tok to. So far been working with 2 rather hardworking ppl, ppl who dun push off their work, but actively attempt to finish more in less time. James is as inquisitive as me, though we have lotsa questions with no one to answer them.

Stayed back today to deal with some AOR (ie zaoing against medical advice) cases for benny, who's on call. Realise it's relli not easy to convince someone to stay, without sounding threatening or rude. Think i have a lot more to learn. In fact, everyday i learn something new, some from the mistakes i make, some from looking just plain ignorant and dumb. Maybe dats wat u mean by experience. It's even enlightening to have some senior tell u in ur face "you again? how come i can't get rid of you?". I think he means it. Though i haven't figured out why the hate.

I think part of the fear of the job comes from actually not being quite sure what ur job entails. Like arranging a crash C-section for the first time, or getting consent for the first time, or even writing amoxycillin 500mg tds for the first time. But i realise once u know wat to do, the job isn't quite as scary anymore.

Still adapting, and O&G is good, since it also teaches me surgical skills. Think in no other surgical posting do u get so much OT exposure. Even doing an episiotomy repair is interesting somehow. The nurses in the OT have called me at night many times to go to OT to assist... haha. Technically 2nd surgeon liao.

Back to the photos. Realise dat i can't quite remember the name of every stop we stayed at, or places we pass. So here are just some photos.



More amazing terraces.



If you look carefully, u'll see a rainbow.



The top of a hill we climbed.



The river bed. Apparantly during the monsoon, the river will flood and the gravel and sand u see will be submerged.



The view from one of the rest places where we had our lunch.