Journey of a DUMB Houseman

Week 1 has bene tough. It wasn’t an easy ride. WHY? To get my fat ass up early. That was the main issue. 7am to 10pm (never on time to balik la). DAILY. That was tough. My routine basically was get up, bath, and get ready, eat and head to hospital. Come back from hospital, bath and sleep. REPEAT FOR 6 days. Nothing else. 1 st day tag and I was placed in the labour room. Imagine, knowing nothing and placed straight at the end part of the process. BUT, everyone was helpful. From the nurses to the consultants. Everyone was nice. Like super-duper nice. And they remember your names. They call you colleagues now.  Heard someone calling “ Dr. Malvin, Dr. Malvin, tolong sat ”. And I was like, there’s someone else name Malvin as well in the same place. WOW! Got a pat on the shoulder, turned and the nurse was like, “Dr. Malvin, harap muke je handsome tapi pekak, meh tolong kak ” Then I realise one important thing. The game has switch sides. From playing a passive role in...

Journey of a DUMB Houseman THE BEGINNING.... *disclaimers: don’t be a grammar Nazi as I am bad in English   So yea, Hi. I’m the new kid on the block. I will be sharing with you how I, the dumb HO will be surviving the housemanship. After about 10 months of break, I got the job! YEAYYYYYY!!! But not so yeayyy la ah… Why so? I planned so trips in August as the rumours was that the PTM (Program Transformasi Minda) supposed to be at the end of August. So, rumours became reality in an earlier manner. PTM date from end of August became 6 th of August. So yea! Sudden pressure. Sudden going crazy! Forms prepared, stuff prepared, everything prepared except for 1 thing. Just 1 thing. I didn’t prepare MYSELF. Still can’t believe it. The calling came and yea, time to go. I wasn’t prepared at all. As I’m writing this, I am still not prepared. So yea, here are some tips that can be useful to those reading this that will becoming a HO soon. 1. ...