{"id":17,"date":"2015-04-08T18:25:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/taiseisuzuki\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-04-18T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T18:17:25","slug":"one-of-the-busy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/taiseisuzuki\/2015\/04\/08\/one-of-the-busy-days\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the busy days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macha Mission Hospital has been operational more than 30 years.\u00a0 Currently, there is an American physician (has been there for more than 30 years too) who does majority of surgeries, and a Congolese physician and a few Zambian physicians who take care of everything from in-patient to out-patient care.\u00a0 There are some Zambian \u201cinterns\u201d who are getting more clinical trainings under the supervision of these physicians as well.\u00a0 My preceptors change depending on which department I am involved in at the time, but I too mainly work with the aforementioned physicians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18 size-medium\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/taiseisuzuki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/04\/P1040159-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1040159\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/taiseisuzuki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/04\/P1040159-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/taiseisuzuki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/04\/P1040159.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Macha Mission Hospital has mainly four wards \u2013 Men\u2019s, Women\u2019s, Pediatric, and OB.\u00a0 They also have ART clinic and TB ward.\u00a0 As a medical student, you can choose which department you want to work.\u00a0 Since I am here only one month, I picked pediatric for my first two weeks, and then Women\u2019s ward for the rest of two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesdays and Fridays are surgery day, and you will spend the most of the day in the OR.\u00a0 If you finish early, you may go to the out-patient clinic and sees whoever comes in.\u00a0 On the other days, you will round in the assigned ward with your attending, and then go to the out-patient clinic to see patients.\u00a0 Attendings will challenge you, and you get a lot of autonomy!\u00a0 On Wednesdays and Thursdays, we have meeting\/didactic for 30 minutes in the morning before the round.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19 size-medium\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/taiseisuzuki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/04\/P1040213-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1040213\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/taiseisuzuki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/04\/P1040213-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/taiseisuzuki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/04\/P1040213.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Today was a quite busy day for me.\u00a0 It has been a week and half since I started to work here, and my attending asked me to do the round in pediatric ward by myself because several physicians were out of town and we were short in physicians\u2026\u00a0 With great support from Zambian nurses, I was able to make clinical judgement for about 20 kiddos, and discharged a few.\u00a0 Then I went to the out-patient clinic to see walk-in patients.\u00a0 They come with various complains \u2013 headache, chronic back pain, hypertension follow-up, vaginal infection with pregnancy, fall from riding a motorbike, etc etc\u2026\u00a0 There were so many patients so that I had to work until 2pm then go back to home to have my quick lunch.\u00a0 When I went back to the clinic, there were no walk-in patients, but there was an emergency C-section.\u00a0 I helped to clean and stimulate the newborn.\u00a0 I was amazed how much Zambian clinical staff members can do by themselves!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macha Mission Hospital has been operational more than 30 years.\u00a0 Currently, there is an American physician (has been there for 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