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Andy and Cate Around the World in 80 Days
Today was my first proper day in placement. In for 8am, I was back in bed at 8.10! My doctors car was stolen over the weekend and he wasn't coming in... again!
However, I was called back in at 9am to follow a different doctor, and was chucked straight into a delivery room with 7 student nurses and 2 midwives, all watching this poor girl giving birth! How dignified!
It was traumatic for me nevermind her! I nearly passed out twice. I fully expect to have hit the deck a few times now before my placement finishes!
When I'd recovered, I went down to the Emergency department in the Womens Hospital. Here, the air conditioning was broken and was actually melting, the local students I bumped into there were just laughing at me! There were only two beds for the women to be assessed, and the two workmen up on their ladders trying to fix the a/c could blatantly see over the curtains into the bays and see the women being examined!! (Gynae examinations!!!) I was squirming, but no one else seemed to care, even the patients!
When I recovered from this... I followed the other students to some teaching at lunchtime, then I was finished. Thank God I have tomorrow off!
Cate x
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