Let them tell you how

My Boss is a good teacher without having to teach us junior doctors the traditional way. You can learn much just by observing his body language, his choice of words and how far he would go to make his patients feel better about themselves.
Once, he told me that as we try not to miss the [...]

Extraordinary appetite

Psychotic patients behave out of norm. From their thoughts to their speech, gestures, actions, fashion sense, as well as their choice of food.
Ten months in psychiatry, I’ve come across psychotic patients who presented with a strange sense of appetite:

Flowers
Nails
Toothpicks
Paper
Staples
Coins
Rubbish – fresh from the rubbish bin
Human faeces
Human urine
And I remember this particular mentally challenged patient with [...]

2-month-old TV murdered in psychiatric ward

Two months ago, Boss announced that we should make the psychiatric ward a haven instead of a mental house. Our patients are sick, so all the more they need a cozy and comfortable place to rest and recuperate. Thus he planned a shopping spree – we bought a 40 inches flat screen TV, a set [...]

Today I’m so free I summarize my SPAM

The first thing I do when I log in to my email account nowadays – empty the spam folder. It has become a habit for me. Like brushing teeth before going to bed. Truthfully, I just can’t stand seeing Spam (258) or such, even though it’s not the Inbox and it auto-delete its contents in [...]