Doctors are respected (i guess so) because they are categorized as professionals with high IQ.......how about EQ???
No doubt that Malaysian doctors face tonnes of stress esp when they need to oncall and work non-stop for 34 hours. I guess no other profession can ever imagine receiving calls continuously while you are actually resuscitating a dying patient, hearing agony cries from patient's family members and at the same time, you have another patient waiting for u to see in other ward.........this is the time that we lost our EQ........
One true story happened 2 days ago........
Venue: a male ward in a government hosp
time: 10am
scenario: a patient with the diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal bleed secondary to bleeding varices (dilated, tortuous blood vessels) was apparently well and stable in ward for 3 days, suddenly vomitted a large amount of fresh blood and became drowsy.
Unfortunately, the reserved blood in blood bank was expired (since no new order for it for past 3 days).
A senior doctor attended the patient after being informed by junior doctors in ward, and after knowing that no immediate blood can be transfused to patient, he scolded the junior doctors: " No patient can die due to upper gastrointestinal bleed during my oncall. If this happen, i will give u a slap."
The junior doctors are so shocked to hear this (at least i am stunned at that moment)............what make a nice looking gentleman doctor to say such low EQ statement??? Is he born to have low EQ, or the working environment make him so???
Why is always junior doctors at fault?? Instead, the staff nurses have the responsibility to remind the doctors to keep blood in reserved in blood bank everyday, or call up blood bank to confirm the availability of blood daily.
Dear all senior doctors,
If problem occurs, please don't hesitate to teach us or even scold us (using better words) before give us a slap on the face.......the slap might be remembered forever, instead of the mistake done, and as a consequence, the true lesson is not learned.
Together we serve for our community and improve our EQ level...cheers to doctors!!!!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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