The Real Tales of an Intern Part 9

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Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic — every bit of it. No exceptions.

Surgical posting turned out to be a breeze for Sam. In retrospect, this was a better posting than medicine. She had an exceptional supervisor who did not make her feel hounded. Sam thrived whenever she wasn’t micromanaged. Instead of going back to medicine, Sam started her pediatric posting. This wasn’t a walk in the park.

For starters, whenever she was in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit NICU, she struggled to get the veins of the neonates. For those who got them, she wasn’t sure how they managed. And those babies were so delicate. In her mind, if she tried too hard, she would snap their tender bones.

Now, fluid management was very key in pediatrics. When a child has diarrhea or vomiting or both, fluid management was very key. What drove Sam crazy was the fluid calculation for each child. She was sure her love for maths was short in this area.

Another thing that blew Sam’s mind was certain parental behaviors. There were parents that would walk into the children’s emergency with sickly children. If you compared the parents with the children, there was a disconnect. These parents would be all bling-bling and high flying, with pieces of jewelry covering any possible exposed part of their bodies. They also seemed unperturbed that these kids were sick. There was perhaps some parental neglect, with the doctors being left to perform their magic.

Finally, the last straw for Sam was this; there were overnight calls where all she did was certify patients dead. “I thought I swore an oath to preserve lives, not certify corpses!” She would mutter. This almost drove her to psychotic depression. She had to request one month off in between postings to go cool off and properly manage her psyche.

“Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic — every bit of it. No exceptions.”

- Esther Hicks.