Turn a new leaf
Posted by peanut on Sunday Oct 23, 2011 Under as an MOIt is never easy adapting to new life - new routine, new responsibility, new scope, new field, new people. The stress is always there during all these first times or new experiences. Some are long awaited ones, while others are experienced with minor steps.
Adapting to new responsibility is no fun. And things get harder. Entering housemanship is one stress, but entering mo-ship is totally at another level.
Suddenly a lot of people are looking at you for answers.
Suddenly a lot of people are expecting a lot from you.
And suddenly you have a lot to protect.
I know there are a lot of hoohahs from ppl working in other departments, thinking that being an ortho MO is the easiest job in the hospital. There is always a stigma. A stigma that ortho MOs usually lack of basic medical knowledge, that they could not manage simple medical conditions, that they always post up the wrong cases, mess up with the informations needed to the anaesthetist, always refering patients to the medical departments and etc.
If you sit down and have all sorts of MOs on a table, I bet all of them have some story to tell about ortho MOs.
Well.
I do understand that things happen.
I do understand that sometimes we are too ‘bony’.
I do understand that when time goes by, the less used medical knowledge became blur and it is clouded from our sight.
Friends said that I do not have any reason to be stress when I’m an ortho MO. But dear friend, I’m stress because I care. And I can live with that stress.
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October 23rd, 2011 at 5:54 pm
There are a lot of technical stuff to study too in orthopedics. But of course if you have good medical knowledge, you’ll stand out from your fellow MOs. All the best!
October 27th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
hey there. all the best! :)
November 3rd, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Hi,what are books I should have for ortho?
December 5th, 2011 at 9:52 pm
all the best! :)