Another week in hospital has come to an end. Although only working Monday to Thursday it has been another busy week. Monday was a quiet day so we spent most of it in Green doing bloods and talking to the doctors about the management of minor illnesses. We met a very concerned women who was convinced she was severely ill despite being perfectly healthy and we entertained two young children whose mother had been brought into the yellow zone. I made my first gl...

I have made it through another week at work and finding I am getting much more hands on. This has definitely been helped by doing afternoon shifts (3-10pm) as the department is much busier and the doctor seem glad for any help they can get! I've made it out in the ambulances, although several times I have thought we were going to die hurtling along at 100km/hour through the city with Black Eyed Peas blaring. Cars aren't too keen to move out of the way so a loud...