Elective Posting: Day 08

Note: Seriously, I really wonder who still read this blog......

After few days of elective posting at hospital, gained many experiences. By The grace of God I have chances to take more venous blood, set up line or insert branula. There was a time that I need to take venous blood from a 12 years old boy with dengue fever, since need to take blood 3 times per day from dengue patient. But it was difficult to find veins in a small kid, especially after poking his veins so many times. So the HO asked to me to take arterial blood. So again by the mercy of God I have a chance to take arterial blood.

Though the vein difficult to find, but paradoxically the artery is easy to get in children. Though getting more chances to do different procedures after staying at ward 18 for about 1 week, but getting kind of depressed cause can't really answer specialists' questions, and they usually ask us to find the answer in CPG, CPG, CPG, CPG...... CPG simply stands for Clinical Practical Guidelines. They are some guidelines regarding management of patient that set up by Ministry of Health (MOH) of Malaysia. Last time need to read books, now need to read those CPG =_=. Today heard my friend said she felt what we learn in Russia is like...not to say totally useless, but is like not usable in Malaysia hospital. Getting many 5s at there really doesn't mean anything at all, even getting a Red Diploma doesn't mean anything. So how should I move on? Someone said before that our eyes are located in the anterior part of the head, so that we will look forward and not looking backward. Suddenly I remembered what Paul said to the church of Philippi.

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do:

Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 

I press on toward the goal to win the prize 

for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:13-14

Maybe I really need to forget what is behind, and press on toward what is ahead. The past is memorable and valuable, but it can never hinder the future.