I Guess You are Guessing DOC

Mother, mother I am sick. Call the doctor very quick.

Doctors. Respected figures in the medical field. Ten years or more at school to study and learn the human body; to alleviate pain, to cure and to KILL?

“It was in the local news” my friend exclaimed.

“They even sued the doctor who did that. Yeah. My cousin lost his arm. It was amputated” he added.

This conversation was real. A friend’s cousin lost his right arm. It was amputated because of negligence and malpractice of the doctor who cared for him. He was playing basketball and accidentally landed on his arms and has got an open fracture. He was rushed in the hospital and treated. Cast was wrapped on his fractured arm. IT WAS NOT CLEANED AND DRESSED, though. Hearing this line from my friend made me boiling mad thinking that I am in the medical profession too, a nurse. After a week or two, the patient noticed that he could no longer feel his arm and smelled a foul odor coming from the cast. They visited the hospital. The cast was opened and to their surprised, the hand was already gangrenous and ready to be cut. The unfortunate guy is now always wearing long-sleeved tops just to cover his amputated arm.

I was in the local news as well…a post graduate intern (PGI) unintentionally killed the baby by pulling it from the mother’s birth canal and left the head inside. This was so drastic medical malpractice and negligence. As how it was happened, I’d rather not discuss it. It is just worst than the first case mentioned.

Late at night, someone bothered me saying we need to go to the hospital. Well, as a nurse I need to be available 24/7. Just on my shorts and Tee, we rushed to the hospital. The patient can’t breathe and was vomiting. To make the story short, the doctor arrived and assessed the patient. He auscultated the patient and asked the patient if what time she vomited. The patient replied and the doctor said, “It’s GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease)”. It was like a big question mark appeared in front of my head. Eyebrows met questioning the doctor’s diagnosis. How can he diagnose a patient by simply doing that? He gave prescription to neutralize the acid and we went home. After a day, the patient was rushed in the hospital again concerning that she can’t breathe. The same complain she had a day after she was DIAGNOSED to have GERD. This time she was catered by a different doctor. Ha! It was pneumonia. She was on nebulizer for 3 days and after then she’s fine.

These are just few of the dismaying and horrifying events you can see in the local news or even for real. Where are the sworn statements of these doctors not to cause harm to their patients? We are not bunch of guinea pigs for experimentation. We consult doctors for cure but they keep on giving the wrong diagnosis. Of course wrong diagnosis would give wrong medication. These are just few of the obnoxious exemptions to those doctors who are doing their best for their patients. To those doctors who are not doing their jobs very well, practice your profession well before your patients sue you and revoke your license. Is this all about money or the desire to prolong the lives of these hopeless patients? Some of these doctors are just lucky enough that their patients are just not really educated enough or has the money to sue them. Now for the patients, how sure are you that your doctor is giving you the right diagnosis? Is it just a flu or swine flu?

Small Potatoes for Big Minds

I hate the given definition of the word "trivia" in my Encarta dictionary. It says "unimportant things: a collection of insignificant or obscure items, details, or information". Well, I beg to differ. Trivia are actually small pieces of information that people usually tend to be uninformed of. These are useful information that often we overlook. For an instance, we know that the skeletal system is composed of bones, obviously. However, the trivia set in as what is the biggest bone or the tiniest; the longest and the shorted; the heaviest and the lightest. Through trivia, we dig deeper to a certain topic that we know frivolously. Even renowned game shows use trivia for the million question.

Learn new trivia and answer the million question. If you can't join a game show, anyway, like what my blog description says "The more you learn, the more you realize how stupid you are." Free your mind from stupidity. Learn trifles and small beers for you to sound smart and be smart.

Every month, I'll be posting several trivia for your brain to guzzle. New information to learn, new ideas ponder and new facts to share.

To start this issue, let's have trivia about ME. Ha!

Just in case you don't know.

I've got long Hair – Hair grows rapidly when it is short. Its rate of growth varies about 2 cm or (about ¾ in) per month. The more the hair grow, the more the speed of growth reduces by one-half. The fastest growth is found in women from 16 – 24 years old.

Black Deep Eyes. – The eyeball is the only part of the body that doesn't change or even grow since birth until we die.

Brown skin with fine downy hair – Fine downy hair can only be found in newborns unless you are anorexic or shall I say skinny. In the absence of fats, the body signals to grow fine hair all over our body for the thermoregulation. The hair rise when it's cold and do the opposite when it's hot. In matters regarding psychology, hairy people are actually aggressive in nature. Oops, check yours. Don't give me that smirk on your face. Is the trivia right or what?

Melanin, the coloring pigment of the skin. Black people are abundant with melanin. Whites have less and albinos have none. Skin cancer is common to Caucasians because of the white skin color. Nevertheless, black and brown people are still prone to have skin cancer.

Well, enough of me. I'll have more trivia in the next issue of this feature which I call SMALL POTATOES FOR BIG MINDS.