It still sends a chill down my spine when I recall the 'panic' incident I witnessed in the ward just before I had lunch.
I was strolling towards the canteen when the alarm bell lighted up. The high pitched siren was screaming across the doorway. Seemed that there was a situation in the male ward as the yellow colour light was blipping. I turned my back and headed towards the ward with intrigue. As I headed towards the ward, a staff nurse was asking me about the whereabouts of the security guard while the other said that one patient tried to escape. Cool isn't it?
Standing on the counter was the patient who was requesting to talk to the doctor. According to him, he wanted to go out and meet with the consultant in charge of him. Although I was not really clear about the situation out there, it seemed to me that the patient was disappointed by the decision made by the staff nurse. The gate into the ward was locked too.
The situation was tense as the alarm sounded but no security personnel were present. As the patient started to demand for the doctor and becoming aggressive, some nurses had to prepare with Haloperidol and Midazolam just in case there is a need of it. The nurse(male) was making a deal with the patient that if he receives his injection, everything will be fine and no one gets hurt.
Since the patient did not wish to cooperate, the middle cubicle(where he is located) was immediately emptied. Patients and medical students were required to step out while security personnel who had just arrived moved in. The tussle was a 'mild' one as the patient was quickly pushed towards the ground. And it required 6 men to get him lie still. Interestingly, another patient (Mr H), who just had his injection this morning for losing control, was there to stabilize him too. How cute =)
It's rather terrifying to witness one and i doubt if I would be interested to witness another event as such. On the other hand, I felt sad that the patient was sedated and had all four limbs tied to the bed. Is there any other method to calm the patient down? Hmm....Ohya, and the best part of it? Mr H was seen consoling the patient throughout the struggle and telling him that everything is fine, just like a friend in need. At least, that is heartwarming!
YikPing
147pm
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Psychiatry
Yesterday marks the 2nd week of my posting in the psychiatry department, PPUKM. This is my first posting of my 4th year.
Yet, until today, psychiatry seems to be so abstract to me. Moving on to the 8th day tomorrow, I have still yet to tune myself into the minds of psychiatrists. Everything just seems to be so vague. Frankly, I have been trying to like and enjoy this posting but things did not turn out to be better. However, on a positive note, at least I have a direction and heading towards the goal set.
Clerking in psychiatry has been the most interesting part as far as I'm concerned. Unlike Internal Medicine or Surgery, the method of clerkship is quite different. I have clerked a few cases till date and most of them had been major depression or with suicidal attempts. Initially, I felt scared to even approach a psychiatry patient for the fear of the unstable mood they possess. To me, they appear to be violent, creepy and unfriendly.
I managed to clerk an interesting patient today. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia since 2006 and has been on medication since then. It still deters me to clerk a schizophrenic patient although I have been trained to clerk one. It turned out to be quite a new experience when I clerked her, with my 2 other friends accompanying me. I could not really get the history as she always wanted to go to the toilet. The reason? She has 4 bottles of mineral water bottles (1.5L) on her table and kept drinking them. She said that she must drink lots of water to keep her facial texture smooth and nice. On top of that, she kept saying that I must eat more as I appear so thin her. It happened thrice throughout the interview.
Will be attending a clinic session tomorrow with my supervisor. Finally ! I have longed to meet her since the first day. Hopefully she will be able to enlighten me and make me enjoy the 8 weeks in this posting =)
yikping
1003pm
Yet, until today, psychiatry seems to be so abstract to me. Moving on to the 8th day tomorrow, I have still yet to tune myself into the minds of psychiatrists. Everything just seems to be so vague. Frankly, I have been trying to like and enjoy this posting but things did not turn out to be better. However, on a positive note, at least I have a direction and heading towards the goal set.
Clerking in psychiatry has been the most interesting part as far as I'm concerned. Unlike Internal Medicine or Surgery, the method of clerkship is quite different. I have clerked a few cases till date and most of them had been major depression or with suicidal attempts. Initially, I felt scared to even approach a psychiatry patient for the fear of the unstable mood they possess. To me, they appear to be violent, creepy and unfriendly.
I managed to clerk an interesting patient today. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia since 2006 and has been on medication since then. It still deters me to clerk a schizophrenic patient although I have been trained to clerk one. It turned out to be quite a new experience when I clerked her, with my 2 other friends accompanying me. I could not really get the history as she always wanted to go to the toilet. The reason? She has 4 bottles of mineral water bottles (1.5L) on her table and kept drinking them. She said that she must drink lots of water to keep her facial texture smooth and nice. On top of that, she kept saying that I must eat more as I appear so thin her. It happened thrice throughout the interview.
Will be attending a clinic session tomorrow with my supervisor. Finally ! I have longed to meet her since the first day. Hopefully she will be able to enlighten me and make me enjoy the 8 weeks in this posting =)
yikping
1003pm
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Press Not-So-Freedom Day?
3rd of May marks the world press freedom day. Back in 1991, the United Nations general assembly declared this day as World Press Freedom day to increase awareness of the importance to freedom of press and also as a reminder to all governments regarding the freedom of expression. It is one's right to voice out something that is real and report if without biases. However, as far as I'm concerned, Malaysians do little to practice this freedom issue. 3rd of May might just be the day of world press freedom but the main idea is to create awareness for people to exercise their rights about facts, unlike baseless political scandals in Malaysia done to tarnish the image of another guy.
Rewind a few days back where i found this very interesting video posted on YouTube. It has been 21 years since the world press freedom day was declared but, as I said before, Malaysia is just simply out of bounds. And now we are in the hot water as BBC issued a warning and even took a swipe at us of for censoring what they had recorded. The media is controlled by the government and sensitive issues were not to be disclosed to the public. This were among the few methods that kept the opposition at bay for the past 50 years as the media only portrayed the flawless side of our government.
It's not difficult to spot what was lacking when played on our local media
Dr Chua Soi Lek voiced his concern about press freedom in today's The Star, urging the media to report news as it happens. On the other hand, Minister of Home Affairs Datuk Seri Hishamuddin also called for a special committee to investigate into the riot that caused injuries to the general public and to the cops as well. However, I always doubted their actions. 'Words always speak louder than actions' is something the Malaysian government are pretty fond of. Well, we will see about it.
Turning our focus on the just concluded Bersih rally a week ago, it is not difficult to notice that our government yet again employed dirty tactics to divert the attention of the nation. With reference to the anti-Lynas gathering in Penang a couple of months ago, there is always one similarity during rallies: They start off peacefully, and then in a sudden, the crowd starts to go wild. Riots and crowd disorder immediately scream over the headlines of our dailies. The government is 'clever' to notice that if the rallies ended in peace, the message would be clear: To protest against some movement. However, with crowd violence in the frame now, papers are reporting about crowd violence, injuries here and there, and some big names calling for a committee to investigate into it. Seems that the committee that investigated about the anti-Lynas movement in Penang has just gone behind the scenes again. And did the papers report any genuine ideas regarding the Bersih rally for a change? You should know the answer.
On the other end, we can see Myanmar evergreen leader Aung Sun Syu Kii swearing into the parliament yesterday. Now, that is what I call democracy and liberality. The junta ( or so called military government) is willing to abide the citizen's call for a change in the country. Although the nation might be a little disappointed as Aung Sun Syu Kii was deprived the chance to take office, she still views it as a pride to stand in the parliament. 'Politics is not give and take. It's about yielding the wishes of the people', she siad cheerfully when questioned by reporters on her sudden U-turn from what she said on Monday.(She refused to swear in due to some issues regarding her party and parliamentary members in which the government would not tolerate) Malaysia is much more developed and has a higher education status than Myanmar but in terms of politics and sociology, we are nothing compared to them. I bet the Bersih rally and anti-Lynas movements just fell on deaf ears. But no matter what the government thinks about those activities, at least it has achieved its target of instilling awareness to the nation of the need of a change.
Signing off
Yik Ping
130pm
Rewind a few days back where i found this very interesting video posted on YouTube. It has been 21 years since the world press freedom day was declared but, as I said before, Malaysia is just simply out of bounds. And now we are in the hot water as BBC issued a warning and even took a swipe at us of for censoring what they had recorded. The media is controlled by the government and sensitive issues were not to be disclosed to the public. This were among the few methods that kept the opposition at bay for the past 50 years as the media only portrayed the flawless side of our government.
It's not difficult to spot what was lacking when played on our local media
Dr Chua Soi Lek voiced his concern about press freedom in today's The Star, urging the media to report news as it happens. On the other hand, Minister of Home Affairs Datuk Seri Hishamuddin also called for a special committee to investigate into the riot that caused injuries to the general public and to the cops as well. However, I always doubted their actions. 'Words always speak louder than actions' is something the Malaysian government are pretty fond of. Well, we will see about it.
Turning our focus on the just concluded Bersih rally a week ago, it is not difficult to notice that our government yet again employed dirty tactics to divert the attention of the nation. With reference to the anti-Lynas gathering in Penang a couple of months ago, there is always one similarity during rallies: They start off peacefully, and then in a sudden, the crowd starts to go wild. Riots and crowd disorder immediately scream over the headlines of our dailies. The government is 'clever' to notice that if the rallies ended in peace, the message would be clear: To protest against some movement. However, with crowd violence in the frame now, papers are reporting about crowd violence, injuries here and there, and some big names calling for a committee to investigate into it. Seems that the committee that investigated about the anti-Lynas movement in Penang has just gone behind the scenes again. And did the papers report any genuine ideas regarding the Bersih rally for a change? You should know the answer.
On the other end, we can see Myanmar evergreen leader Aung Sun Syu Kii swearing into the parliament yesterday. Now, that is what I call democracy and liberality. The junta ( or so called military government) is willing to abide the citizen's call for a change in the country. Although the nation might be a little disappointed as Aung Sun Syu Kii was deprived the chance to take office, she still views it as a pride to stand in the parliament. 'Politics is not give and take. It's about yielding the wishes of the people', she siad cheerfully when questioned by reporters on her sudden U-turn from what she said on Monday.(She refused to swear in due to some issues regarding her party and parliamentary members in which the government would not tolerate) Malaysia is much more developed and has a higher education status than Myanmar but in terms of politics and sociology, we are nothing compared to them. I bet the Bersih rally and anti-Lynas movements just fell on deaf ears. But no matter what the government thinks about those activities, at least it has achieved its target of instilling awareness to the nation of the need of a change.
Signing off
Yik Ping
130pm
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Cute Malaysia
Just had a bowl of hot noodles while it continues to rain outside. As the warmth of the noodles occupy my stomach, i lay lazily in front of my computer, hopefully just to give my mind a rest. However, i can't help but recall the contents of our local dailies for the past few days.
It's rather pathetic when i go through the newspapers everyday and get to know the cute side of Malaysia. At times, it just turns me off to grab hold of the paper and start browsing through it. Hogging the headlines aren't the stories of great achievement of our country or some important world news. Rather, seeing politicians running down each other and displaying the immature side of themselves. Though I may still support the opposition to continue to keep the government in check, I never liked any of the sides. Penang DAP an exception because of the work and effort they put it. That's another issue anyway.
Back to the hotly debated issue of abolishing the PTPTN loans. Well, frankly speaking, there isn't a need to do so, Mr Anwar. Afterall, it isn't causing Malaysia any problems financially. On a positive note, PTPTN was established to help those who cannot afford to pay the tuition fees imposed by the university as well as the high living costs when it concerns places like Kuala Lumpur. Indeed, the Minister of Higher Education is right to point out that by abolishing the PTPTN loans, many would be deprived the chances of pursuing higher education, given the current socioeconomic gap between the city and the rural areas. I could not agree more than our opposition leader is none other than fishing for votes.
Today's front page of The Star speaks about the allegations of a model towards our minister. Of course, that's nothing beneficial other than yet another topic to gossip. What caught my attention was the statement made by Senator Datuk S. Nallakaruppan against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, regarding a defamation suit. And there follows numerous politically geared articles as our nationwide General Election looms around the corner. In all, the first few pages supposedly to be national news turns out to be distorted and biased views of the political scene nowadays.
I can still recall some articles in those days when I was young and was forced to read the newspapers. It was less politically centred and focused more on reporting news, rather than creating news as how it seems to be these days. The mass media is supposed to educate the public, especially the young ones on how our country is being developed and led by charismatic leaders (Mr Lim Guan Eng is one, but since he is in the opposition....), and at the same time, not being biased towards any quarter. Undoubtedly, the media is controlled by the government, but as a wise and transparent government should be, news should be reported just as they are without manipulating the facts. Malaysia has lots of catching up to do when governance is the issue. Malaysia education standard on par with developed countries? Either the minister is an epic fail, or the system is an epic fail. Think twice before you crack not-so-funny jokes, my beloved Education Minister.
Well, this is Malaysia and the future is always as bleak as usual. Nothing much has changed since we achieved independence some 50 years ago. Vision 2020 is on the brink. While being sick of the media and our politicians, I can just wish Malaysia the best of luck. After all, 'first world facilities, third class mentalities' sums it all.
*Just the author's personal opinions and trying not to offend any party in the process *
Signing off,
yikping
827pm
It's rather pathetic when i go through the newspapers everyday and get to know the cute side of Malaysia. At times, it just turns me off to grab hold of the paper and start browsing through it. Hogging the headlines aren't the stories of great achievement of our country or some important world news. Rather, seeing politicians running down each other and displaying the immature side of themselves. Though I may still support the opposition to continue to keep the government in check, I never liked any of the sides. Penang DAP an exception because of the work and effort they put it. That's another issue anyway.
Back to the hotly debated issue of abolishing the PTPTN loans. Well, frankly speaking, there isn't a need to do so, Mr Anwar. Afterall, it isn't causing Malaysia any problems financially. On a positive note, PTPTN was established to help those who cannot afford to pay the tuition fees imposed by the university as well as the high living costs when it concerns places like Kuala Lumpur. Indeed, the Minister of Higher Education is right to point out that by abolishing the PTPTN loans, many would be deprived the chances of pursuing higher education, given the current socioeconomic gap between the city and the rural areas. I could not agree more than our opposition leader is none other than fishing for votes.
Today's front page of The Star speaks about the allegations of a model towards our minister. Of course, that's nothing beneficial other than yet another topic to gossip. What caught my attention was the statement made by Senator Datuk S. Nallakaruppan against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, regarding a defamation suit. And there follows numerous politically geared articles as our nationwide General Election looms around the corner. In all, the first few pages supposedly to be national news turns out to be distorted and biased views of the political scene nowadays.
I can still recall some articles in those days when I was young and was forced to read the newspapers. It was less politically centred and focused more on reporting news, rather than creating news as how it seems to be these days. The mass media is supposed to educate the public, especially the young ones on how our country is being developed and led by charismatic leaders (Mr Lim Guan Eng is one, but since he is in the opposition....), and at the same time, not being biased towards any quarter. Undoubtedly, the media is controlled by the government, but as a wise and transparent government should be, news should be reported just as they are without manipulating the facts. Malaysia has lots of catching up to do when governance is the issue. Malaysia education standard on par with developed countries? Either the minister is an epic fail, or the system is an epic fail. Think twice before you crack not-so-funny jokes, my beloved Education Minister.
Well, this is Malaysia and the future is always as bleak as usual. Nothing much has changed since we achieved independence some 50 years ago. Vision 2020 is on the brink. While being sick of the media and our politicians, I can just wish Malaysia the best of luck. After all, 'first world facilities, third class mentalities' sums it all.
*Just the author's personal opinions and trying not to offend any party in the process *
Signing off,
yikping
827pm
Thursday, March 29, 2012
连续剧
开首的一篇是某某出生 妈妈给宝宝奉上这一生头一吻
开端之后或晴或暗 怎么走就像连续剧也欠缺安稳
或者 于某集我可抬头欣赏到你
或者 一转念便要失去你
或者 转折渐太多 遗忘怎拥抱你
或者 拥紧偏已断气
情人们一呼一吸相爱到底 结局或同样
仍想将你我这幕 演得更理想
能修补即管修补 不要再想 再一刻人便缺氧
熟悉的歌曲 等与你合唱
无人需要落寞的过场 前来铺满浪漫的过场
新一章怎可是你我分开 可否改写得像你我当初还相爱
只可惜上集难逆转 伤感的下集仍然未播 我会修改
如果 当晚没有分神来紧张布置
如果 不必误会再猜疑
如果 将对白说得平和 不加讽刺
如果 真的可有下次
情人们一呼一吸相爱到底 结局或同样
仍然能拖紧彼此 走绝地雪霜
如能重修好一双 不要再想 再一刻人便缺氧
明知可一起 不要再独唱
情人们一呼一吸相爱到底 结局或同样
仍想将你我这幕 演得更理想
如能重修好一双 不要再想 再一刻谁亦要退下场
多得你在场 多得我在场 天空也在场 演好这一章 呼吸太无常
开端之后或晴或暗 怎么走就像连续剧也欠缺安稳
或者 于某集我可抬头欣赏到你
或者 一转念便要失去你
或者 转折渐太多 遗忘怎拥抱你
或者 拥紧偏已断气
情人们一呼一吸相爱到底 结局或同样
仍想将你我这幕 演得更理想
能修补即管修补 不要再想 再一刻人便缺氧
熟悉的歌曲 等与你合唱
无人需要落寞的过场 前来铺满浪漫的过场
新一章怎可是你我分开 可否改写得像你我当初还相爱
只可惜上集难逆转 伤感的下集仍然未播 我会修改
如果 当晚没有分神来紧张布置
如果 不必误会再猜疑
如果 将对白说得平和 不加讽刺
如果 真的可有下次
情人们一呼一吸相爱到底 结局或同样
仍然能拖紧彼此 走绝地雪霜
如能重修好一双 不要再想 再一刻人便缺氧
明知可一起 不要再独唱
情人们一呼一吸相爱到底 结局或同样
仍想将你我这幕 演得更理想
如能重修好一双 不要再想 再一刻谁亦要退下场
多得你在场 多得我在场 天空也在场 演好这一章 呼吸太无常
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Taman Tasik Permaisuri
Decided to get some exercise today, which was hardly rare lately. Anyway, they have planted lotus plants on the lake =) perhaps it had been there long ago, indicating that i had a long layoff since the last run.
Saw many kids that immediately stimulated the joyous receptors inside me. I smiled as i watched them play badminton, run everywhere, kick the ball around and do lots of funny stuff. Wondered how i was when i was young :)
At times, i also tend to ponder on what these kids will be in the future. Will they be someone great? A doctor, engineer, teacher or some successful businessman? It has been inevitable for me to keep thinking of their future whenever i meet with kids...haha.And that caps a wonderful evening and an end of my weekends. Time to work again... *sulk*...haha...
yikping
717pm
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