My FriedDay.

Posted: 25 June 2010

I also have this posted in Tumblr with the title: Day 25 — Your day, in great detail

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This will be tough.

Today is my fifth day as a Reliever in TMC – Maxicare. I’ve just started so I’m still getting familiar with the clinic. So being a rookie is like this.

A lot had happened but I will share two of those things that stood out today.

1. Patients Lie. This is a caption I saw in a House, M.D. Livejournal icon and I thought of it when a patient was claiming something that didn’t really happen. She also asked me, “Are you aware of how good my memory is?” I only looked at her in recognition that I was listening. I didn’t bother to say more. She wouldn’t listen.

I wasn’t upset at her albeit what happened and with the pride she has about her memory. I thought, perhaps she thought of something else without really paying attention to what I said, and with reality. She’s past the age of 50, I believe, and I know comes with aging. I’m not buying her good memory. Well, I believe she misunderstood what I told her, and what was told of her in the counter.

2. Request and Result don’t mean the same! I asked a patient what she came for. She said something about lab so I had to confirm, because some patients do not answer the question properly. I asked her if there was any lab request. She told me, “Wala nga. May lab result na nga eh.” (None. There’s already the result.) I thought, “Girl, magkaiba ang request sa result.”

She was taken aback with my question, because she didn’t understand it well. I was taken aback with her thought-process, with her use of “nga eh.” I just did what a nurse is supposed to do.

Besides these two, I was surprised to find out that all three men I asked about Maserati were clueless about the Italian luxury car. One, whom I expected to have known it, said, “Never heard (of it).” I only said, “Awww. It’s a luxury car.”