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Off and Food
April 21, 2018
Day 47+ of working and life is still bearable, alhamdulillah.
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| Laksa and rojak by the sea. |
I am such a happy young-at-heart kid every single time I have proper meal. :D
Honestly, I feel guilty to tell / ask patients to take care of their lifestyle (like to get well-enough sleep, eat proper food in good quantity, reduce stress in life) - when in fact, I am the one who are lacking of them. I am sorry.
Adoi.
Well, it is just me who are still adapting to find time to have meal in between work, plus feeling guilty to eat while other colleagues are doing their work. The hospital is small compared to any other hospitals but I still find the cafe to be far from the wards that I feel bad to leave to buy meals.
- "Eh, doktor, bila masa ada kat sini? Tak perasan pun... tu la, kecil sangat."
- "Ehhh, I think I saw you there, since when you are here?"
- "Tu la doktor, meh akak transfer lemak ni, baru la tak sejuk dalam OT"
- "Kau senang lah nak cari baju kat online shop tu, badan kurus."
- "Weh, lainnya muka kau dalam nametag."
- Doktor, makan roti je ke? Patut la kurus."
Honestly, these kind of reaction are new to me. T_T
Usually, on off days, I will prepare myself with enough stocks of breads, Gardenia will always be my preference haha. 6 tahun duduk Czech bukan main payah nak jumpa roti lembut. So, I will bring 1-2 packs to work plus plain water and air kotak. So, in case I don't eat proper meal, I have my backups :D (in which most of the time tak sempat nak makan pun hahaha)
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| Sunset in Lumut :D |
One good, valid reason to work here is the sea :)
My vitamin-sea. :D
Thank you Allah for this life plan. You surely know the best. Alhamdulillah.
M, Perak, Malaysia.
180421
Breakfast by the River - Sungai Sitiawan
April 19, 2018
One of the way to treat myself on my off day is to have good, proper food. :)
Since this town is still new to me, there are so many things to explore. I have not much idea on yummy food around, not much experiences on best restaurants that I should try. So, I asked people around (my colleagues of course) and Google!
So, it leads me to this place.
Roti Canai Pak Tam Kg Sitiawan
If you are looking for good roti canai with good view to relax your mind, this is the place. I am not sure about other menus, but the nasi lemak served there was also delicious. Not to forget, you can always buy kuih muih from few stalls around - like lempeng pisang, otak-otak, etc. Yummy too!
My friend and I went there on a weekday morning and I believe this place is quite popular as there are so many people! I bet on weekends will be even crowded over here.
Check the directions and more details on Google Maps :)
M, Perak, Malaysia
180417
Wisdom to Differentiate
April 18, 2018
Working life is so far bearable. I have no thought of giving up or resigning and hopefully none of them till the end.
There are ups and downs every single day. You can be congratulated and scolded by the same person in just few minutes apart. But, slowly I developed a barrier to my heart to accept the good in any bad things.
I feel very happy when the MOs have the same diagnosis and plans as mine. Here, every single thing need to be discussed with the MOs in which in one way, is very good as juniors can avoid making mistakes or improper plans can be prevented to be done to the patients. On the other hand, sometimes I feel bad to inform the MO for simple stuffs like, if I can give even Tab. Paracetamol (panadol) to the patients if their temperature rises, or syrup MMT if they complained epigastric pain.
But, in real life, MOs surely have FAR MORE EXPERIENCE than the juniors. They can give other plans that juniors can't relate enough, yet.
One thing junior doctors need to do well - is to know the patients well like any important antenatal problems, any previous medical illness, any allergies and current conditions of patients. With this, junior doctors are basically helping A LOT with the MOs plans.
Few things I learned - I need to:
- Be someone who can contribute to the patient's good progress even though I am not the one who decide the right plans for them.
- Be brave enough to double confirm the plans especially if the MOs give out the plans too fast and I can't keep up with them.
- Be calm but fast.
- Be careful in everything without affecting the speed of the work.
Change the things that can be changed, accept those that cannot, and have the wisdom to know the difference.
M, Perak, Malaysia
180417
A Morning Stroll at the Mangrove Park
April 17, 2018
Haha, I can't tell how much I miss blogging and blogwalking.
Anyway, it is another off day today. Going to share something I did on one of my previous off days - which was hmmm, more than 10 days ago? There are postcalls that I am still strong enough to still drive home - for 2 hours ride one way. But, there are some days I totally dozed off upon arriving home, took my bath and performed my prayer. The moment when I thought I would take only 30 minutes to an hour to rest before driving... would turn out to be 4-5 hours sleep. Heee.
And the day I went to this Taman Paya Bakau was that kind of day.
I decided to stay instead.
That morning, I went breakfast with a good friend - we used to know each other during high school and our parents are friends to each other as well. And turn out, we are colleagues in the same hospital right now. I have no idea to know someone here, but the moment I know she is in the same place as mine, I feel happier :)
After breakfast, I proceeded with this mangrove forest plan, while she had something else to do.
So, yeah, I went there alone. There were other visitors as well, but they came in a group.
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| Mangrove trees |
To be honest, the place is FULL of monkeys! I warned you guys, there are a lotttttt of them. Since I went there alone, I thought I could survived till the end until I was nearly ambushed by one of them.
Gosh, I wonder how I survived my high school life with monkeys.
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| See. They were waiting for me. |
Tadaaaa, the view was so amazinggggg!
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| The river. |
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| It is interesting to see the mangrove trees and imagining how they help with the ecosystem to prevent flood. Something I used to see from books. |
Well, I think my parents had took me and my brothers to this kind of place when we were still small kids.
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| Good view, good air. |
Thanks to this family of three for allowing me to join them. :D
Life survival skills of mine, please stay with me and never fade away :) After nearly being ambushed by the monkey, I slowly retreated until I saw this family started walking approaching me. Gently, I asked permission to join them walking together.
"Boleh je dik, takde masalah :)"
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| Kak Farah and family. |
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| The mangrove roots searching to water source, maybe? |
All in all, this place is very nice to hang out with friends and family in the evening of during weekend. Just, because of the monkeys, please be careful with the bags, phones and please please don't bring any food with you. I can say, the safety is about 6/10. But, the pathway is well taken care of. Very clean too! :)
There are jambatan gantung as well, just under renovation right now.
Here, I attach a map to this place. :)
Till next post.
M, Perak, Malaysia
180417
Segmen: Making A Blog List by Blog Siqahiqa
April 8, 2018
Having an off day and I decided to stay here. A bit tired to drive home, insyAllah next off day I'll be back to my hometown.
So, let's spend few minutes for the blog :D
Anyway, Siqahhhh, here I am, joining your segment :D
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Or HERE.
Everyone who join this will be included in her blog list, anyway. Let's join this one!
M, Perak, Malaysia
180408
Detour by Raudhatul Hifza | Book Review
March 27, 2018
Despite the busy working days, I decided to have a goal of reading at least one book per month. It was a bit hard to keep in track as I don't have the luxury to read the book in the hospital and upon reaching home, I am already tired to even hold a book.
Memang bila pegang buku nak baca, the next moment I wake up... it is already 5am plus and I need to get ready for another working day.
So, after analyzing the trend, I got the pattern; to read few pages for 5-10 minutes in the morning while having my breakfast before leaving the house for work.
And finally I finished reading a book! :D
Title: Detour
Author: Raudhatul Hifza
Pages: 268
Publisher: Iman Publication
Publication Date: Jan 2018
There is no specific synopsis of this book unless you haven't read Hiatus. Oh, this book is kind of a sequel of Hiatus, just it is not written by Budak Tomato (I think?) and to be honest I imagine Muharikah is the one who wrote this piece. WAllahualam.
In this book, you can get a better understanding of Hiatus, from Raudhah's point of views.
A good, simple book to be honest, with not much cliffhanging parts but I am a bit disappointed with another open-ending book. Tapi, dah tu penulis nak buat, I can do nothing but to read, observe and apply the lessons I've learned from it.
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1. Be the person who can bring someone closer to Allah (together with us).
I believe I can relate well to the verse as Raudhah and I share the same career. Alhamdulillah I haven't deal with dying patients yet in this department, hopefully not but I believe it is something unavoidable in the hospital. Patients can die every day.
In O&G, it is more towards happiness of welcoming a newborn into this world. But, there are tears as well. Some women who really want a baby but unable to have one. Some women who got pregnant and really treasure their pregnancies suddenly came to the hospital because of per vaginal bleeding and upon examinations, they are diagnosed to have miscarriages T_T
'Bukan rezeki saya, kan doktor?' while shedding her tears.
Only Allah knows how sad I am to deal with this. But, I need to be professional as well even though quite a few times, I got carried away with this empathy emotion. What I can do is to calm them (in a rush, I need to help with other patients too) and reassured that 'Allah nak bagi yang lebih baik untuk akak. Akak pun muda lagi, insyAllah nanti akak cuba lagi ya.'
2. Rejection is another part of learning.
Well, rejection is my daily meal in the hospital. Well, it is for my own good anyway. Rejections really help me to improve on how to present cases, how to decide on the plans and the most importantly, why I need to perform such examinations and how to persuade patients.
Like, in O&G, not all cases we need to do vaginal examination (known as check jalan). In fact, there is another way to check the vagina - per speculum (orang panggil masuk mulut itik kat bawah) which is usually done if pregnant women complained of leaking liquor (rasa macam ada air mengalir lah doktor)
Same goes to abdominal ultrasound. In some cases, we need to do trans-vaginal ultrasound (masuk probe ultrasound melalui vagina untuk nampak organ peranakan lebih jelas) instead of trans-abdominally. But, we still need to respect the patients if they refuse any.
- 'Dah dia taknak, kita tak boleh paksa, Hanis. Yang penting, kita dah bagitahu baik buruk sesuatu prosedur tu dan make sure tulis dalam fail dia yang dia refuse.'
3. This too shall pass.
Every time I feel down with my own achievement, I always pat myself, "You have done the best for now, there are always rooms for improvement. And this too shall pass."
I hope my ability to work will be more efficient and fast with time. Ameen.
4. Dealing with depressed person.
I love how the author described this part well.
It is not that easy to deal with these people in real life. Theory and words are totally different than in reality. People are too different from each other. But, I think that I can use this as a guideline.
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All in all, this book is a bit monotonous but I believe that if we read this book for the sake of just to finish it, we will reach to higher disappointment. Anyway, if you have read Hiatus, I would highly recommend this one to continue reading after Hiatus :)
My rating: ★★★☆☆
M, Perak, Malaysia
180327
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