Been MIA for some time.. hmm let me recall what had happened... okie think i went sailing for a week which i kinda enjoyed though I complained initially. HAha. Was practically like doing nothing everyday onboard thanks to wonderful Dr Mathew who believes in doing everything himself. never seen any other MO like him before. A real nice guy. And can u imagine he's presently studying diploma in law at the meantime while serving his NS.. and he's aim is obviously a double degree.. Law + Medicine??!!? Can you imagine how powerful will that be?

He was telling me about the mistakes that doctors make in hospitals and i vaguely remembered there was this case where there's this patient who came in for some minor surgery. Prior to most surgery, patient has to fast for a certain period of time before entering the OT.. so this guy fasted and everything seemed perfectly normal to the doctors until just before the sugery, they found his vital signs deteriorating and slipped into coma.. so they panicked and scrambled to find out what's wrong wih him, and to their horror, his hypocount was 0.8 (hypocount refs to blood glucose level, and for normal ppl is 4.0 and above, so 0.8 is really very low...). They tried to revive him but it was just too late.. Apparently his hypocount was falling steadily all the while(probably a diabetic pat) just that nobody monitored and bothered to check his condition. Everyone assumed it's just another normal case and hence leading to their negligence. Sighz. though doctors are human after all, and have the right to make mistakes, but when such mistakes occur, who will be so forgiving? not the society, and certainly not the relatives of the deceased. Tough job.

He was also telling me about how lawyers in the US station themselves outside hospitals chasing after patients or relatives asking if they want to sue the doctors for wadsoever reason, causing them unnecessary trauma, pain or even death. Hah..

been rather busy at medical centre recently... sighz really tired.. will try to blog again soon.