The Worst Morning Shift In General Surgery | Housemanship Diaries
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I can’t really remember when as at the time of writing this article, I am about to cross into the second week of 2025.
Perhaps it was somewhere in October last year or early November.
It happened to be the day shift on a weekday and we were lack of manpower. 3 House Officers in the Male Surgical Ward, 2 House Officers in the Female Surgical Ward. Out of the 5 of us, I am the senior and the rest are first posters, three of which are only Day 3 into their housemanship life.
Oh dear…
We all know how busy Surgical can get and being the only senior that day surrounded by newbies, it was as good as being alone as they were not familiar with the system or the work or the procedures.
The day started with me taking care of the acute beds. The acute beds in the ward is considered the most unstable, hence it only made sense to allocate the senior, which is myself there, followed by the subacute cubicles.
The front cubicles and back cubicles are relatively stable patients. Hence, I allocated my juniors there. Usually for first posters in their first week of life, I would not allocate them independently to take care of a cubicle. However, we were desperately short staffed that day and taking care of the front or back cubicles are not easy either especially if you’ve just entered.
The day was busy enough. Started with me following rounds at acute and subacute with my medical officers and again with the ward surgeon, only to leave midway as the Hepatobiliary Team (HPB) had their own separate rounds and I was the HPB house officer for that day.
After rounds, it is the completion of the joblists. Amidst trying to complete the joblists, we had to transfer in new patients, take and send off the bloods of patients who have just entered as well as attending to any acute issues.
On that day, I had to assist with the front and back cubicles as well and in the afternoon, the juniors left for their Operating Theatre (OT) orientation.
My phone literally rang non-stop that day and the nurses kept haunting me down for everything. If only, I had the ability to clone myself…
Suddenly my phone rang and I had to assist a registrar to help tend to a visiting outpatient, attend the female surgical ward acute issues because the medical officer on-call called me as well as attend a virtual meeting.
Time flew by rather quickly, one minute I was escorting a patient, next was being called upon by this and that medical officer or registrar or nurses. To the point, my post-call registrar stayed back to assist me.
As the evening progressed, most of my patients desaturated. The annoying thing about Surgery, we had to update the whole story properly in the oncall WhatsApp Group for the day.
If only it were as easy as that.
We couldn’t just take a picture of our entry and update. Instead, we had to properly type the whole summary or stay.
I finally completed my task for the day at 10pm. It was an extremely exhausting and tiring day. One which I have no interest in relieving again.
That was probably the worst morning shift I’ve ever experienced.
However, looking back at what I’ve written, it doesn’t do justice to what I actually felt that day.
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My prime wiener-touching time is between 8-10am when work starts. I get so damn horny in the mornings that I usually #Masturbate twice or more in that time frame. What sucks is that my partners are nighttime sex people, which is a much less sexy time of day for me lol. I can still feed pipe but that animalistic, fuck-your-face-growly attitude isn’t there.
Anyone else working the morning Slut Shift with me lol?
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