This Is What You Called An Emergency?!

I'm not really a toxic person when it comes to night duty. I've been known to have the toxicity in my blood especially during the daytime but ever since I had my night duty, I realized that it is the time of the day where my toxic curse has no effect. Almost all the time, we had a peaceful night until I was partnered with Jops, our combination is the worst. 

Dalawang beses pa lang kaming nagninight duty ni Jops but during those times we always had an emergency case. The first time we had our night duty, an emergency ex-lap came, good thing the anesthesiologist and the surgeon were the kind ones. For our second night, we had an emergency cysto-RPG which is kinda weird because that kind of surgery was not an emergency at all, I mean you can do this anytime of the day pero parang for the sake of just having an emergency case for us kelangan talaga nilang gawin yun.

If the cysto-RPG emergency case is weird the weirdest of them all came last night when Jops and I had another night duty. We already accepted the fact that we are not meant to be partner in a night duty dahil nga everytime partner kami may case kami but when we arrived in the OR last night, it's a miracle na walang pending case, and so we thought until 1am came. A call from a plastic resident came scheduling an emergency debridement of right hand and she was saying that it will be a direct OR, no more stop over to the ER. I accepted it, feeling that it was really an emergency. May kanya-kanya na nga kaming theory kung ano ang nangyari. My theory nasagasaan ng kotse yung kamay nya at nalasog lasog, I forgot what Jops' theory is but our aide told us that maybe the patient was mugged and he fought tapos nasaksak yung kamay nya. Ok na sana ang lahat, okay yung surgeon pero ang tanong namin bakit naman sa dami-daming anesthesiologist yung monster anesth pa yung napili nila.

Anyways, when we received the request hala nagulat kami ni Jops. The operation in the request is as follows: Emergency debridement of 3th and 4th digit of right hand possible wire fixation. Our reaction: "ngek! daliri lang yung aayusin nila? Emergency talaga ito? Life threatening? Bakit kelangan pa nila ng anesthesiologist?" Nakakatawa lang kahit gaano ka-minor yung case for the sake of just having an emergency case for us, kelangan talagang magkaroon.

And we thought mabilis lang yung case but we were wrong, after kong masabon ng anesthesiologist for not knowing where the heck is the manual drill of OR (which I consistently saying na wala nang ganun sa OR to the surgeon, which was finally confirmed by a senior nurse), the operation which was supposedly last for an hour (if only they asked for the help of an Orthopedic surgeon) lasted for three hours. Saktong-sakto pagkatapos nila 5am na at nandun na yung mga 5am-1pm shift nurses. So kami naman (after kong i-transout sa ward yung patient) nagmadaling magopen at magset-up ng OR dahil 5am na and our earliest case for the day is 6am.

At kahit walang tulog at antok na antok, parehas pa kaming na-OT ni Jops dahil kahit na holiday, walang tawad ang mga surgeon at andami pa rin nilang cases for the day at dahil kulang sa tao, ayun kami na ang na-OT. After 3 hours of overtime work, pinauwi rin kami.