I remembered the 1st day I reported myself as Medical officer. My posting was not decided yet and I reported my duty to the office. I asked the admin clerk that I wanted to go to the casualty department. Casualty department was an infamous unit in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah(HTAR) then. As a house office, we used to get in-appropriate admission – eg. orthopedic case admitted to medical ward…MO which no department wants ( or they have not interested in any department would be posted to casualty department). There were some training MO who called the Casualty department - Junk department.
The casualty department was short of MO then. The admin clerk typed me a letter immediately and asked me to report to Dr Mary – the medical officer in charge immediately. There were no specialist acting as head of department then. An U43 medical officer was posted as in charge instead. Dr Mary was happy when she heard that I had 2 years of working experience in ED setting and asked me if I could start working on that day. I told her why not… I was brought to ED and I started my day shift and went off by 2pm. I was like fish back to water then.
Unlike the ED which had three 8 hrs shift. The ED shift was 7am-2pm(7hrs), 2pm- 9pm(7hrs) and 9pm-7am(10 hrs). No call claim but you would get a day off for a night shift. No lunch/dinner break as well. Each of us worked 18 shifts per month… but going off by 2pm was luxurious for someone working.
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