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)
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