If you’ve read the previous post, you might realize that I’m on a voluntary hospital attachment for 3 days. Few lessons learnt along the way, hard and soft ways.
Hard way:
- Never loose your smile and patience in front of the superiors.
- Never complain like a baby.
- Never try to be smartie-pants when you don’t even have the idea of how things run.
- Try to understand that people might be under tremendous amount of stress and they deserve to be bad-tempered
The soft ways we learnt thing would be that we’ve met a nice pharmacist who is willing to bring us around during grand ward rounds. We’ve benefit a lot from the rounds about our roles as pharmacists in the healthcare plan, and something discovery that I found is that perhaps doctors aren’t that mean and bossy after all. The specialist that was the boss of the ward round appears to be quite nice and polite to all the staffs (well except for some MOs), which busts a lot of myths that doctors are super duper mean to pharmacists.
Despite some lousy treatments, I could say that the visit was quite an eye opener for the life that we’re gonna face in the future.
Outpatient pharmacy – VERY busy and hectic;
Inpatient pharmacist – more relaxed and slower pace;
Ward pharmacist – tiring but satisfying.
The words simply summarizes the things that we’ve seen in the short duration of 2 days, but I say for sure that this career that I’ve chosen 4 years back wasn’t the easiest job in the medical field. It requires commitment, interest, and hard work in order to succumb to the pressure and rise as a leader. It’s still a long way to go, 2 more years to graduate. Currently, I should be more worried about the semester 4 results which will be released tomorrow. Oh crap, I’m having shortness of breath and panic attack. Fark.
Signing off,
Andrew Neoh
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