i used to joke about how "good" the life of my employees will be, if i became the boss.
must leave office on the dot, early cut-off time for cases, sat will be solely documentation day..

today it suddenly dawned upon me that being the boss, you got to know your stuff, need to think quick, make decision fast.
Definitely not easy to be a boss. It takes someone with high calibre, a very board frame of mind, decisive, ability to guide ur subordinates etc etc etc etc.

I wonder whether all these qualities are in-born, or could be accquired through years of experience. I can't help to think that a person's premorbid personality, character will play a big part because it affect how one learn, and how one absorb the lessons learnt through experience.

I can't imagine how I could turn out to be in 5 years time.
Will I be able to think differently? Will I be able to make decisions during crisis?

接二连三

the more time Ling spent doing ICU cases, the more she can see "the trend". and this is verified by her dear supervisor.
cases in ICUs (so far SICU) has some trends:
it can be a period of similar reasons for admissions e.g. motorcyclists skidded (which is very common to us already), pedestrain knocked down by slow-moving vehicles (i got 2 patients which same admission date and admission time is only 2 hrs apart, and i really thought they are a couple. but they are not), sudden complaint giddiness/headache which actually turns out to be massive bleeding in the brain .
it can be a period whereby patients admitted to hospital, and happened to have similar family set-up

and cases are definitely seasonal. once it comes, it comes together. if not, the ward will be as quiet as a mouse.
even not-so-good luck also comes in pairs. once Ling had a case that dealt with the CS and CA, there comes another case. which means a total of 4 cases. eeks.

and the worse is that, when you got a major case, there goes all ur time, sacrificing other cases.
and the worst? to get a DO. (but thanks to kcw who offered to take that DO)


boo boo.

(ling was so overwhelmed that she didn't even reaslised that it is 25th today)

RIP

Ling's fav home tee-shirt finally retired yesterday night. She was in the midst of putting it over her head when she suddenly heard a "Tzzzt" sound. And the next moment, it became like this.

Look how sad is my tarepanda.

Ling's mum apparently is very happy about it, coz it meant one more old clothing to throw away. Ling's mum reminded her that this t-shirt is almost 9 years!! and it is really time for it to go.

true enuff. Ling wondered if she really was so poor that she only bought 1 PE tee during her JC years.

500 posts!!

I was reading Paulynn's blog just now and glad that she did keep her blog updated, as what she stated as her new year resolution. (good work man!!)

Thus I decided to do a review to see if I did manage to do any one of mine..

- Have more initiatives when handling trauma cases --> Will start from today's case. =)

- To be more efficient in clearing backlogs. --> trying my best to do documentation after my SR. Medifund die die muz finish by March.

- Remember to do the necessary follow-ups --> trying trying. Had post-it notes all over my monitor

- Leave some time to think about improving trauma programmes --> still trying to figure that out.. I'll leave my weekends for it... =)

- Do more exercise. Make Monday and Wed the gym day --> only went to gym before CNY. Stopped for 2 weeks after I had a bad blister after CNY (excuses, excuses)

- Eat healthily. Reduce fast food to once a week. --> apparently had fastfood twice last week. Booboo.

- Be more presentable in looks. Maybe with neater hair and light make-up --> Yes. Light make-up is on, but dunno hair is neater or not. But at least it is redder


Results: hm... .... bad bad bad.. looks like there's only 1.5/7. FAILED.