Dr Suthagar, O&G Medical Officer (dunno why this quote stuck)
Orthopedics department was the latest department to have it's weekend off taken off following O&G, Pediatrics, Surgery (I'm not so sure about internal medicine). Reason given by Mr Nahulan, the Orthopedics head of department was that the replacing houseman (those covering patients on Sunday) could not perform well enough to present their cases. He feels that continuity is needed, in other words, the same houseman who had been taking care of the patient should be around to present the case when the MO or specialist does rounds.
It seems that the competence of housemen are in question. Despite having the numbers (even when halved, the current numbers still exceeded the amount of HOs that had to cover a ward a few years back) we still could not meet up to the expectation of our superiors. Why is that?
I refuse to believe that housemen are incompetent. Such labels are a disgrace after going through the trainings we had from high school to med school.
So what went wrong?
I believe it all comes back to attitude. I believe there is a lack of will for self-improvement. We took things for granted hoping that we could cover our tracks and hoping still that nobody finds out. There's no motivation performing better than what we could. As long as the job is done, nothing else matters.
Sadly this had to happen. With the weekend-offs gone, its back to 7 days a week work. No more early morning birding, no more over-time weekend sleep, no more weekend exercises, no more proper breakfast... In short, that's the end of 1 day of normal life.
The only thing to look forward to is that at least it's half day of work (although this might extend to the evening as in the case of O&G or if there happened to be additional unfinished work). At least its better than nothing.
I suppose we deserved what we got. Perhaps its for the best.
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