Archive for the ‘Patients and hospital’ Category

Hotel or hospital?

The standards of hospital buildings nowadays are getting better and classier , especially the new ones.
One could easily mistaken it as a 3 star hotel.
Mind you, this is a government hospital
Was around there visiting a friend.

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Margie oh margie

I;ve never seen a person, who can smile and frown, laugh then scold, joke then cry on the very same day. In fact, its just inside the span of 5 hours.
Nevertheless, I’ve seen more than enough of those daily activities going on around this department.
Backstabbing and shoe-polishing seems to be in another level here.
Only the [...]

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Blend my brain

I started Gynaecology rotation a few days back with the legendary *Margie.
I dont want to say anything about her behaviour, I am not in the position to judge.
Anyway, after afew gruelling hours with her , and her antics. , seen things that not everyone desire to see in the procedure room, I rushed over [...]

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Epidemiology of a supervirus

When medical students study about any infectious disease, they must first understand how a disease is transmitted, from who/what it came from and ways to stop it.
This is part of epidemiological studies.

Lately in this quiet town of Volgograd, there is a breed of supervirus.
It all started mildly, with just the seasonal flu. Some would be [...]

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Kids and coins

Saw this patient’s chest X ray today with a coin lodged inside the esophagus , exactly like the one below.

http://www.hawaii.edu/medicine/pediatrics/pemxray/v6c20a.jpg
Its the size of a 5 ruble coin!

They (kids) must be thinking its sweet.
Becareful of what your kid put into their mouth

why its common to see foreign body lodged at the level of clavicle? Becoz skeletal [...]

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