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Paediatrics Posting. The posting of tiny human beings.
Looking back, I feared entering into the Paediatrics posting. I think I say that for almost every posting.
However, it was one that I fell in love with before I even off-tagged, as mentioned in one of my articles previously.
The stress level was not as bad as it was in other postings mainly because we were dealing with children. Not to say that treating them is easier, in fact it isn’t as they tend to fight back, scream or cry a lot.
I mean they’re just children.
But perhaps when I do come to work, the smile on their cute faces were enough to alleviate some of the stress and checking them clinically involves a skill as they are easily triggered.
I would find myself playing with them or calming them down. Most of the time if I were to auscultate them, they would either start playing with it, swat it away or start crying.
The Paediatrics posting is the place I started eating again amidst the stress. Irregardless of the amount of patients and work to do, there is always time for lunch or at least our superiors will make sure of that.
It was also the place where I enjoyed the long rounds in the morning and afternoon as well as I would present to specialists.
I made a good friend with a medical officer who I still keep contact with albeit having left the posting. I enjoyed the days where I would be allocated to work with him.
Having worked both in the general ward and nursery ward, the experiences were different but enjoyable nonetheless.
If there is a posting I wouldn’t mind repeating, it is the Paediatric Posting and I hope you do or will or had enjoyed this posting just as much as I did.
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