Medical ward
“Welcome to medical wards, where people die.”
Warning!
This post will contain descriptions of severely ill patients and mention of deaths. This might be triggering.
Readers discretion is advised.
Silence. Loud silence with the soft hush as air moves through ventilators. A soft crack as one turns on the bed, a soft snore from the bed at the corner, a whimper from the bed nearest to the door. The medical ward. It’s around 7 am. Everyone is still asleep, enjoying the calm that rarely is in this ward. As I walk through the row of beds, I notice a few empty ones. The oxygen outlets are freshly capped. I can make out an outline on the empty bed. Someone was lying there a few hours if not days ago. Hopefully, they got better and were discharged. But then a particular statement haunts my thinking
“….here people die”
For the first three months of this year, I will be rotating in the medical ward. Learning internal medicine. I have heard a lot about the medical wards and it didn’t help that when I mentioned my rotation to a senior colleague they told me people die.
Internal medicine is a field of medicine that deals with all the diseases that you can think of that don’t surgery. From the doctors’ and medical students’ point of view, this is a field that requires attention to detail. If one small thing is missed, it could mean life or death.
“…here people die.”
Losing a patient has to be the worst experience. Somehow you are expected to move on. The worst part of it is that you can’t carry on the emotions to the next one and you have to somehow act fine. I already lost my first patient and my friends I was not prepared. One minute they were fine, the next they were being resuscitated. That is a story I will tell some other day.
Death in sickness is sometimes inevitable. The will of God. The end of the race. The last breath. Doctors will always give their best, but then there is always that one…..that one time.
The medical wards.
This one will test me to the core.
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Heeey guys☺
Today’s post is about a statement I just don’t know how to get out of my head.
Internal medicine please be nice梁
I will keep you my friends updated on my Rotations and my experiences. Wouldn’t that be fun?
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Adios李
^Faith
People here die😩…
I’m unsure on how to write this: thou it’s a bit saddening to actually also mention, my first pt, passed on imed ward(:- it was not good for me, particularly concidering she was my research (:
Thou I tell you my friend, have a positive vibe of having to sew no death’s, and Ruther to have more of discharge, it will be okey as you take your sessions (•‿
In life there is death and in death there is life, we somehow can’t escape the two coz it’s just matter of time.
Well, it’s time we appreciated the breath of life.