imagine if all those needle and syringe wrappers were recycled. all those hospital parking lots outfitted with solar panels, it would make for a great covered parking too, shielding the visitors from sun and rain. all the staff (who carpooled to work) would get their own parking.
imagine if we used biodegradable detergent for the linen. if all the wards were naturally sunlit and breezy and icus were passively cooled. if all food served were organically grown in a the hospital garden. lush trees grow there, perfect for the patients to go on walks. if grey water was used in the plumbing. that's what i would do if i had my own hospital.
all the staff would get their won pasivhous certified quarters, thereby reducing the need for transportation. we could just walk/bike to our wards/clinics. oncall rooms would have gyms yay.
it would be ibadah friendly too. a comfortable and clean place for everyone to pray. a mosque just near by so people wouldn't have to miss friday prayers. working hours would cnter around prayer times, lab and office people would go on breaks based on those.
i would make recycling so easy, everyone would do it.
i would have a cafe open 24hours a day, for all those people oncall, serving fresh delicious healthy food. there would be a salad bar too. and a huge selection of fruits to make your own power juices. the people in the ot can have the food ordered straight to them. excess food would make compost and feeds for animals.
oh and the wonderful labour room, i would call it the birthing center, where mothers wont be strapped down to their beds in embarrassing lithotomy positions. they would choose how they would welcome their baby into this world. they could choose whatever position they are comfortable with to deliver their baby.
how about patient information? every doctor would get a tablet to document findings and treatment. and the system would be like a wiki, where anyone who accessed any information would be logged in.
i would have everyone in scrubs, easier to identify who's who and also better to run around in.
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gosh i'm absorbed in these documents when i should be reading o&g. ps i delivered a baby via svd (+intact perineum woo!) i ended up delivering the baby in full armour, because it was a biohazard case and all the nurses ran away (busily pretending) to attend another patient. i was so pissed im going to bring up the matter at the next pass over. the disposible delivery set had no cord scissors or suction tubing. cmon do u want all the equipment being mixed up like that?!
yes i am officially an mo. i dont feel anything. apathetic. basically because it feels more like a senior ho position. with the lack of hos, i end up clerking the patients in admission, which i dont mind because that means less new cases to review at night. in the mornings, we plough through all the membranes that need to be ruptured, 1 mo palpating the abdomen, the other doing ve and another typing away at the overworked laptops that cannot be severed from the wall sockets. yup, its never switched off and although the battery indicates that it is 100% charged, it goes into hibernation mode in seconds once unplugged. i guess thats why the ward recently bought a 10m extension for ward rounds. so we lug around the laptops and their hideously heavy table around.
i think ong mo are the most hardworking of all, they do rounds, go into ot, ve, bishop score, deliver the difficult ones, run clinics, in the hopes that them babies come out healthy and happy.
and all the neonates people can see are the bad ones and blame us for not sectioning every potentially high risk patient.
