JR: "So now we will go insert the Energy Tube into patient"
Me: "The what?"
JR: "The Energy Tube Priya"
Me: ...blank look...
JR: "You no have Energy Tubes in New Zealand?!"
Me: "Not to my knowledge but it sounds like we should definitely get in on that"
JR: ...polite laughter... "Yes, I think make very helpful"
So we rock along to insert what in my head has become a strobing rainbow tube mixed with elements of PowerThirst (made with real lightning!) only to discover that he meant a NasoGastric Tube, aka NG Tube.
Monumental anticlimax.
On the bright side.. I`ve succeeded in making the NZ medical system look like its from the dark ages. Unaware of the horror it would evoke, I accidentally admitted that we write patient notes.. with a pen, on paper no less.. how quiant and archaic. Here everything is computerised and a nurse accompanies us on rounds with a tablet pc. Now no NG tubes. Oopsies.
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we AARE from the dark ages... what with our green pastures, 8-hour sleeps, clean water from the tap; not to mention our belief that whales are more than just food.We don't even have nuclear power; savages really!!
I'm in Nelson at the mo, so I'm not quite a big kid yet (no 4th years to pick on here).
Lol it is amazing you are acutally having the opposite experience of me...
I have succeded in convincing the doctors here that the New Zealand medical system is amazing and almost incomprehensible without even trying....
"What, you get heart surgery for free??????"
And here nurses don't even feed and bathe the patients, they don't even give them their drugs!!!
Which causes problems when they don't even get the drugs half the time....
they have to bring a relative to stay with them and do all this..... The nurses here all put in NG tubes, do IV lines, all kinds of injections etc. etc.
Anyway yeah bizzare hearing the other end of the stick...
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