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25th July 2008

Quick Blogs for 2008-07-25

  • Two separate job offers in my mail this morning … would be tempting to get away from the frustrations of the place :P #
  • Looking forward to the weekend - just got 30 clinic patients and 1 baby to deliver before I can properly relax #
  • Discovered a problem with Google Spreadsheet - won’t let me enter dates in the dd/mm/yyyy format, only the backwards way with month first :\ #
  • @ruraldoctoring - home is best place for the doctor to be imho. Midwives are better at patiently enduring a long labour than us docs are :P #
  • Condoleeza Rice is in Perth today and they dragged her to a school assembly http://tinyurl.com/5d98fo Surely there’s better things to do? #
  • Heading off for lunch and then home. Still have a patient in labour so will have to return to the hospital at some point for the delivery #
  • Chinese restaurant for lunch today - Chicken and cashew nuts - very tasty! #
  • Heading home at last. There’s a bottle of red with my name on it waiting #
  • Nothing can spoil a good day like bureaucrats - especially nursing ones. It’s not patients that make our life difficult - it’s bureaucracy #
  • From a screaming baby at work to another screaming baby at home. Baby Mia needs a bottle I think. #



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25th July 2008

A day’s work

Haven’t done this for a while so here’s a snapshot of a day’s general practice clinic for me. In view of patient privacy I’ll mix this up and not go into much detail but here’s a list of the consults today :

  1. Antenatal checkup 32 weeks
  2. Child immunisations
  3. Antenatal checkup 29 weeks
  4. Abdominal pain - postnatal
  5. Baby immunisations
  6. Antenatal checkup 36 weeks
  7. Hormone implant
  8. Quick walk over to the hospital for a ward round to see a couple of post-op patients and their babies, and to check on my patient in labour. Narrowly avoided getting caught in the rain on the way back.
  9. Neonatal check-up
  10. Baby immunisations
  11. Child immunisation
  12. Antenatal checkup 24 weeks
  13. Antenatal checkup 35 weeks
  14. Child immunisation
  15. Child immunisations
  16. Antenatal checkup 20 weeks
  17. Antenatal checkup 37 weeks   […by this stage the day is looking quite repetitive, but that’s fine by me.. usually it’s not quite this homogenous though]
  18. Miscarriage
  19. Depression
  20. Eczema
  21. Antenatal checkup 14 weeks
  22. Child immunisation
  23. Child immunisation
  24. Wound infection
  25. Burn
  26. Antenatal checkup 29 weeks
  27. Ear infection
  28. Eye problem
  29. Baby with abdo upset
  30. Peripheral oedema
  31. Injured finger
  32. Abdominal pain
  33. Knee injury
  34. Antenatal check 38 weeks

And that’s my day.  Well mostly - I still have a patient in labour who could deliver any time this afternoon/evening.  And a pretty good day for appointments too - only had 2 who didn’t turn up which is a lot better than some days. Last appointment was 1350 and it’s now 1401 and I’m leaving to get some lunch before I pick up the kids from school. I like finishing on time :)

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