Still feeling a bit tender after our escapades up the mountain we got a taxi in to QEH after dropping our dirty clothes off at the laundrette across the road. Monday was a good start to my last week in A&E, after some bloods, IM injections and a few ECGs I got taught how to relocate a dislocated shoulder and watched a chest drain being placed for a small haemothorax almost invisible on x-ray. We met a gentleman who had been admitted last week with a gastric u...

Today I spent most of the day in the green zone of the emergency department. This is where they deal with minor injuries, many of which I felt could have been seen by a GP. I managed to get a bit more hands on, taking blood and plaster casting and ended up not getting lunch until 1530. I tried a pau (see blog photo) for lunch which looks like very white, uncooked bread dough, but it isn't raw and comes containing a variety of fillings. I had what was like mu...

Having been told the history of QEH by Daniel this morning I got out of the taxi at the main building with some trepidation. Apparently the old hospital had been torn down a few years ago when deemed structurally unsafe only 20 years after being build. Stuck for a new location the government bought out a local private hospital moving into the premises basically overnight. Since then the building has deteriorated as they wait for the new hospital to be built and ...

Since our plan of white water rafting this morning had to cancelled due to too much rain we had a welcome lie in. Nursing the first of my mosquito bites, despite wearing loads of repellent and a repelling patch, I heading downstairs to meet Carmen for breakfast. Every Sunday there is a market down Jalan Gaya so we headed down to see what is on sale. The atmosphere was great, with locals and tourists a like bartering and trading clothes, gifts and food. As we...

I awoke this morning to the sound of rain-and a lot of it! I headed downstairs for a leisurely breakfast at 9 and was informed this was monsoon rain and would last on and off for a few days. As I sat down in the dinning area I met Carmen, a lovely girl travelling from Hong Kong after graduating from university. We decided to go off shopping to get out of the rain and she led the way having been here for a few days already. We made it to the new shopping cent...