Conversations at the interns' call room can go like this:
Scene 1
Intern1: O kamusta na patient mo?
Intern 2: E4V1M1 (referring to Glasgow Coma Scale of 6, which means that the patient has spontaneous eye opening but no more verbal output or body movements)
Intern 3: Uy, siguraduhin mo yan ah! Dahil ang patay, E4V1M1 din! Diba? Yung mga namamatay na dilat ang mata?
Everybody laughs.
Scene 2
Intern 1: Oh my God, nagto-toxic na mga patients namin! Nagmo-morb na sila! (morb stands for morbidity, either intubated or cardioverted)
Intern 2: Naku, i-mort niyo na yan lahat. Wag niyo nang paabutin sa duty namin bukas! (mort or mortality, means dead).
Do not judge. There's nothing really as "ideal".
Do not judge. There's nothing really as "ideal".
2 comments:
Oh, scene 2 is not funny at all. sad to hear that from interns. :(
Life (or death) is not something to be taken so lightly.
@Anonymous: Nobody's taking life or death lightly, not among people who try to save lives. But it is inevitable to drop words such as those when, for one, you know that the patient has the poorest prognosis and you perfectly know well what could happen next, and second, physical exhaustion can partially diminish human emotions. And as I said on my last statement, "Do not judge. There's nothing really as ideal." This is indeed a sad world. :(
Hey, thanks for spilling your thoughts! God bless! :)
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