A patient passed away this morning. Cause of death: encephalitis, or in laymen terms, the inflammation of the brain perhaps by an infection. Witnessing how the team had to break the news to the family was not a pretty sight.
Posting this early using my phone today because i'll be following the doctor on call tonight and staying overnight at the hospital. With the recent Sembawang shipyard oilrig tip that left 90 injured i'd have expected it to be a busy week. Sure enough, 30 of them were admitted here to NUH, but surprisingly none of them are related to Neurosurgery.
It's an interesting thing to be in the clinics. It was meaningful today: had to fork out my mother tongue that has been rusting at the back of my head but thankfully, managed to interact with many of the patients with a little help every now and then. There is a wide range of patients you see here and i'd elaborate a little more in my later posts. For now, let me just express again how grateful i am for this entire opportunity to be here. Truly God just opening windows of opportunities for me to just learn, learn and learn. And that's what i'm here to do, nothing more.
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