Interesting Attachment, Day 2
Wednesday, 28th March 2007
Since we already knew roughly how long the journey to Hospital Seremban would take us, we’d decided to gather at 7.30 a.m. instead. Learning from yesterday’s mistake, I had a hearty breakfast before leaving for attachment. We reached at around 8.30 a.m. to find that our parking space had been taken. We circled round and round the area and finally found a space in the Nursing School Department.
Having being quite familiar with the area, we headed straight towards OPD to meet Pn Kamisah for our Day 2 assignments. To our surprised, we were greeted instead by a Mr Chew, who informed us that Pn Kamisah is on leave and that he would be overseeing us forn the day. From my first impression, he looks like someone who’d stand no nonsense whatsoever. The first thing he did when we were herded into his office was to interrogate Kong and Po Leen (who were in OPD yesterday) on what they had learnt the day before. After introducing ourselves to him, he took us for a second visit around the OPD, showing us what we had seen the day before. Not wanting to hurt his feelings, we just kept quiet and listened and he explained how the drugs are ordered, stored and shipped around to be dispensed.
Then, he took us to visit the In-Patient Pharmacy (which we missed yesterday). Along the way, we passed by a hospital attendant pushing a metal frame container which was empty. Mr Chew told us that it was used to transport corpses from the wards. They would put the body into it, take the elevator to an underground level and the body would be transported to the hospital’s morgue through a tunnel that runs under the hospital’s grounds. He took us to the In-Ward Pharmacy, to DIS (Drug Information System) Department, to TDM and TPN (again). When we were done, we headed back to his office where Mr. Chew told us he would be giving us each an assessment to fulfill our requirement in the Log Book. He only had time to let Laura "dispense" medication to him before he told us that he had a lunch date and told us to come back at 2 p.m.
My friend who was attached to Hospital Seremban before told me to try the Indian food in IMU’s Clinical School instead of the hospital’s cafetaria, so we headed towards the building situated just opposite the hospital.
The moment we walked in the area, we could feel how a REAL uni should feel like; full of trees, a garden, well-landscaped and cooling. I mean, it was really peaceful just to walk in there.
They even have a nice cooling walkway in between the Indian and Malay cafetaria 
unlike what we have in Bukit Jalil!!!
After lunch, we headed back to Mr. Chew’s office to be assessed. He gave us 3 presricptions to choose from. Even before we had finished dispensing, he had already graded us; all with the same comment and score…Haha. To our surprise, once we had all been assessed, he allowed us to go home (at 3.15 p.m.!!!)
Before we left the hospital, we found a nice spot in the hospital grounds with a water fountain and wanted to take some pictures as remembrance. I asked the lady guard who was nearby for help. She was very apprehensive as she had never used a digital camera before. anyway, these 4 pictures were the result of her "expertise":
Picture 1: It was slightly blurred. We had told her to click on the button for 5 seconds and this second picture came out:
Picture 2: That was me explaining to her to hold the button for 5 seconds but she must have clicked on the button unknowingly. ^_^
Picture 3: Po Leen was explaining to the lady how to click on the button and again, this candid shot was taken.
Picture 4: Somehow, this picture turned out to be the best of all, although I was the most unprepared among the group.
