The ups and downs of Emergency Department

Downs:

• Despite resuscitations effort, patients still expired. In the end, God decides who gets to live and who gets to go.
• Expired patients' grieiving family members wailing, crying and sobbing. The first patient I saw today, her family members were crying but wasnt disturbingly loud. The second patient's family members were sobbing so loudly *don't get me wrong, I'm not annoyed but rather disturbed* I was in the verge of tearing myself though I was in the next cubicle doing ECG on another patient. All along, I thought I would be fine. The doctors, paramedics, nurses all seemed fine. "I cant be the only one being emotional," I said to myself. The thought of the patient being my grandparents *touchwood* is so heartbreaking. The patient's body was still warm! The first patient whom I did CPR, her body was cold and I dunno why it didnt hit me as bad as the second patient. Sigh. I guess it's a part-and-parcel of growing up in medic field. 2 deaths in a day.

Ups:

• While helping a doctor to do ECG on a patient, I overhead this conversation between a medical assistant, A, was assisting me and another medical assistant.

B: Hey A, what's wrong with this patient?

A: Oh, *with a serious face*, dia kentut berdarah.

Me: *Literally burst out laughing but thank God there's face mask covering my medical student dignity*

B: *also with a straight face* Oh. Bloody flatus?

Sometimes this medical assistants are darn funny. Their spontaneity really cracked me up. Some of them do show respects to doctors. They make the working environment easier in alot of ways.

• Different spectrum of cases are presented in the Emergency Department. Life will never be mundane. LOL.