My first In patient. Do Doctors work only where they work?
I wake up with a sweat at one am and I wonder I wondered whether the patient I had admitted from the outpatient with TIA ( layman term as mini stroke) is ok in his room. It was my first admission after I joined my neurology residency. I had come back to my room and read about TIA in detail. Patients can get a major stroke after TIA. With this devastating information I had slumped on the bed exhausted with all medical jargon running in my dreams. Now sitting up alert, I wondered. I wondered whether I had forgotten to write any medication in the prescription chart. I wondered if the nursing attendant has given all the injections in their due time. I wondered whether I was too quick to leave him at the bedside and whether he had many more complaints to tell me. I wondered whether the nurse had collected all the test reports. I wondered if there were any abnormal test results and she had informed the ...