Casualty Chaos
Having finished four successive night duties in the casualty, I was eagerly waiting to get back to day duty from the following morning. Day duties were chaotic, most of the cases being ‘pseudo emergencies’, patients referred from peripheral centres for further management, wound dressings, abscess drainage and the like. Even though night duties were relatively free, spending the night in one’s own room, on one’s own bed is an extravagance – a luxury you underestimate till you spend a week in the government hospital, being on night duty. I found myself yawning at eleven pm that night. We were out of gossip material/books/movies/people to discuss. My male co-intern did not like being woken up once asleep. He jumped at the opportunity and said, “You girls look tired and sleepy. Sleep till 3.00 am. In case of any emergency after that, sister will wake you up.” The staff nurse nodded her head in agreement. I sleepily walked towards the duty doctor’s room with my female co-intern. The room w...