OT Today...

I'm back home in KL...just flew back from KK this evening...attending a course at Shangri-la KL from 5-7 June...so i got a free trip back home...how nice...:) it's quite late now and i really should be sleeping since the course starts tomorrow (er..this) morning...but i just had to type this post...while i still find it ridiculously funny..

Anyway, this (yesterday) morning i was in OT...and it was respiratory team's OT day...they get a half day slot for their rigid bronchoscopy under GA once a week..i think..i haven't been in OT for ages so i kind of lost touch de..so the 1st patient was for rigid bronchoscopy for foreign body removal...this old uncle's been having this foreign body stuck in his right lower bronchus for years but apparently no one has been able to remove it...so finally he was referred to our hospital's respiratory team...the whole procedure lasted about an hour...coz the respiratory physicians were having difficulty removing the foreign body (which turned out to be a tooth implant/part of a denture)...it was a little too big to go through the vocal cords...but finally after everyone had their turn at trying...the foreign body was out and both my specialist and i sighed with relief...

Then the whole team was self-congratulating themselves for doing such a good job...my specialist and i could only roll our eyes and giggle between ourselves...i haven't been in GA for that long...just over 1 year...but i've met enough surgeons and observed their characters...but i've never seen anyone with a more conceited and 'i'm mightier than thou' attitude....i mean, one of the consultant surgeon i know can do an abdomino-perineal resection or anterior resection in 2-3 hours (albeit with quite a considerable rate of complications) when the standard time is 4 hours or more...and although he does make conceited comments...but he doesn't drone on and on about how good he is...

So anyway, from 8am-2pm...all i heard was stuffs like... "we did a great job"..."that case was a difficult one but we managed to do it when others failed"..."we should take a picture of this and show it at our conference"..."that was a very smooth intubation"..."we should write a case report on this patient and publish it"....la la la....so i was quite entertained...laughing to myself behind the mask..hehehe...and gossiping about them with my specialist...hahaha...i'm such a horrible person...

Oh well, it's getting real late...and i'm definitely gonna fall asleep during the talks later..gonna bring the second book of the Twilight saga: New Moon to keep me awake later...and i'm going to 1 utama to catch Joanna Wang Ruo Lin at her showcase tonight...yea!