Syukri, this second year registrar who used to be my first call has this habit of running through with me how to do something before he does something. The first time he did this was calling me at 9.15pm asking me how Wei Sheng does his CVL insertion because he’s in OT with Wei Sheng that coming morning.
Yesterday 6pm he went through with me how to genta lock for one of our CRBSI patient and I walked him through it, including the equipments. I was that time already 60 hours at work with only 5 hours of sleep, but I don’t turn down my colleague asking me. I even texted him what we talked about. And then I asked him
“What time you’re doing the procedure?
“7.30am.”
”You’re on your own man, no way I’m coming in early” is what I wanted to say, but we’re comrades in shared suffering, so I said “I might come at 7.30am.”
This is after telling him how much I hated him each time he texts the group “Passover at 7.30am” on the days postcall registrar has to run OT, and I only show up at 7.55am earliest.
I showed up at 7.40am today and assisted him with the genta lock. I think I consider this kid my adik already.
