Last Night on Call

Intro

Hi, I'm B.

I'm a freshly graduated medical intern at a new job in a district hospital. I moved from my home and family for this job, to find greener pastures in a part of the country where the Healthcare system is said to function a bit better.

Here follow some chapters of that it's really like to be thrown into the deep end as a young professional in the world of medicine.

Some definitions:

On call = not what it sounds like, essentially it's just an extra shift. You don't go home, or rest, or wait for anyone to call you. It's literally just more working. 

Intern = the first two years out of medical school, we work for the government hospital system, rotating through different disciples, to gain experience before we are allowed to practice medicine alone. 

Free time = yeah, I have no idea about this one. 

My first year entails the following disciples, each for three months: internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and paediatrics. I started with internal medicine. 

Internal medicine = sick people, really; cardiology, neurology, lung medicine, gut medicine.

Okay, here we go...