Life of an Intern

Entering Internship after clearing the final MBBS was like a dream waiting to come true during those 4 n a half yrs….After all the hard work, getting to put the stethoscope around ur neck n walking along the corridors of the hospital when someone calls u “DOCTOR” from behind….sounds really nice!!but that’s all which is nice about internship…

March - Walking in the OBG wards on the first day…doing a night duty there on the second….searching for postnatal woman in postnatal ward only to find her in gynaec ward…filling investigation forms…checking bp’s..writing afternoon notes…posted in srirampura for the periphery postings…gave my first individual prescriptions in the opd…nothing more than diclo,pct n cpm….:)

April – Pediatrics was hectic….8-9 duties in the month….all 36 hrs….sleeping on the 5 foot sofa in the breastfeeding room in new hospital picu….rounds with dr.maiya was the only good part of it…

May – Back to OBG…same old story…ya forgot to mention about running to the lab to collect reports of the investigations….running around searching for murnal to get free n 50% concession signatures…Was sent to Chennai to attend the Ethicon Suturing workshop with ramu n nivedita….learnt a lot there!!

June – Orthopedics unit 2…those who know about it ‘ll realize about the ilizarovs n the dressings….stood long hours in ot holding the patients limb assisting dr.shah in ilizarov surgeries n went back to ward to the dressings of the same…duties were really good working with good pgs n learnt suturing wounds in casualty…

July – Off to Kaiwara for the rural postings….staying away from home for a month…getting up at 8-9…sitting in opd at phc…going for field work…eating bhatta’s food… trekking…started reading for the PG entrance sincerely with some group discussions….was fun..

Aug – Urban postings at the MK nagar health centre….trying to dispose off the medications due to get expired that month to the same old singh n tamilian families….hard kaur, nand kaur, harbhajan singh, akmalunnisa, n many more……i can start off a clinic in that area knowing so many people..

Sep – Medicine brought new work…taking patients to new hospital to get CT scan done…write notes on n on…..getting psyched up talking to psychiatry patients…went to old age homes as a part of the Joy of Giving week…worst of all was to listen the sisters say ” sir…aayamma is not there…so please do this job”:)

Oct – A n E…working for 12 hours a day…was very hectic…seeing patients with cold n cough at 3 in the night….gang-war case at 2 am with rowdies involved n calling the sadashivnagar police to help us n take them away…..convincing the patients attenders the need of ICU care for low platelets….asking them to take them to another hospital…getting blasted from them…n then chilling out in ophthal for the next 15 days asking patients to read out snellens chart n putting eyedrops in drops duties….

Nov – Back to medicine again….same old work....only change was working with new n better pgs…

Dec – Working in Plastic surgery…assisting most of the cases mopping n cauterizing n seeing how subtly they handle the skin n the soft tissue…nice experience!! Did night duty in surgery on the 31st…cutting cake in the parking lot to welcome the new yr 2010…was the first time ever I celebrated a new year :)

January – Dermat and Ent…nothing much about the depts….entrance exam time…back to serious studying after quite some time!!

February – working in the new block of MSR teaching hospital in OT in anaesthesia postings…giving spinals,intubations,i.v lines….Internship is about to end in another 2 weeks and looking back into it, I wonder if internship itself is all about managing being a ward boy, ot boy, attender, sister, brother n all apart from being a DOCTOR or only if I managed to do it that way!!!

Pramod