It is most frustrating, when J. is working in a team that frequently updates the relatives of the patients under its care, to be informed via the nursing staff that the CEO of the hospital has received a complaint that the team is “not updating the family enough”.
The complaint came from the daughter of the [...]
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People are new. New people take time to catch up, and the first impression is often false.
He was on call with a new HO with a poor reputation for breaking down and almost being in a catatonic state on his first week at work. Most likely he was overwhelmed by being in a new country, [...]
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It’s been over a year since J. started working, but he still remembers this experience from a student posting.
There was a 36-year-old lady who had come in with a 3-day history of abdominal pain, starting from the umbilical region, subsequently radiation to the right hypochondrium/flank region, bilateral shoulders and was exacerbated by lying down and [...]
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