Your no friend of mine

Everyday, guaranteed, I recieve bleeps from wards to review patient I don’t look after.

Why?

It’s because these wards don’t know who their buddy is!

Let me start from the beginning.

For a long time in my hospital, and also other hospitals, medical outliers on surgical wards have a habit of being missed for several days or longer. So they’ve started something called a buddy system, which is where assigned medical wards look after medical outliers on surgical wards. Is the system working- is it fuck!

The main problem is, only the consultants have been emailed about the new buddy system and not any of the ward managers or staff nurses. Who came up with that brainstorm? So everyday, I get bleeped from a ward I don’t cover and have to fob the nurse off.

Another good idea ballsed up. Well done guys

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New job, nights and general update

It’s been a while since i last updated my blog. haven’t honoured my promise to update it more regularly—oh well!

So yesterday i started my new 4 month F2 job which is Cardiology. I was well and truly happy to finish doing Psych. I met my new boss who wanted me to be in OPC but i couldn’t as I didn’t have any: ID, bleep, parking permit, met secretary etc. I found out i have only 10 patients at the moment which is OK and met some of the nurses on my new wards. Unfortunately i won’t really get to meet my team until 10 days time as i am starting nights tonight. Tonight i am on a 11am to 11pm shift and next week i am on a 7pm to 7am shift. It’s been ages since i’ve done nights, let alone medical nights and at least 2 years since i’ve done medical nights at GEH—bit nervous really! Not held a cardiac arrest bleep in ages too!

Since the last time i wrote my blog, i have seen the new Bond film and seen 2 gigs: The Charlatans and The Futureheads—i’ll try and write some reviews in due course.

Other than that, i’ve continued to play footy and tried to study for my MRCP Part 1 which is on Jan 23rd.

I’ll attempt to update this blog this weekend or next week.

Cheers