Greetings from Ipoh

I'm currently in the IT room of Ipoh Hospital. This is the second week of my selective. So far my stay here has been interesting. Here I watched Batman Begins & Fantastic Four, ate the famous Ipoh Nga Choi Kai (Chicken & Bean Sprout), traveled to Sitiawan during the weekend, saw a few craniotomy (surgical opening of the skull to drain out the clotted blood...yummy), ventricular peritonial shunt (draining of the excessive brain water)....:)

As I was attached to neurosurgical department, most of the patients I saw in the wards was either lying stationary in coma or paralysed. Most of them are on ventilators. Actually the goal of neurosurgery is to prevent mortality (death), instead of morbidity (complication), cuz whatever damage that has been done on the brain will be permanent and lead to irreversible complications. Perhaps physiotherapy might help a bit. There I see how fragile life is. One day you might be living happyly, then the next day you might end up in operation theatre or ICU because of stroke or head injury. I also witness how the neurosurgeon and doctors struggled to make choices in managing the patients. They have to weight between the patients' benefits and risk. And honestly, most of the neurosurgical patients will end up dead.

Ipoh Hospital is quite a good general hospital, with its friendly staffs, spacious wads, beautiful scenery outside (Ipoh is famous for hills, caves and trees), cooling environment...hmmm...i might consider working here next time... 

Well, this is quite a new experience for me. I'm looking forward to the next two weeks as I take another few glimpses of the real life in hospital.

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