“No sleep no food but it’s all good
Run for the case that’s the base
Take rest when you can earn!
That’s the summary of an intern…”
Robin Cook had written a great novel on the life and state of intern called “the year of the intern” and that was in 1973! When I read it I was in the final year MBBS and soon enough realised that there may be minor differences but more or less the year of intern is very difficult indeed.
It’s the same when you are resident Post graduate also and when you are in a government college.
You never have a dearth of cases and complications and the count simply goes on like a timer!
Casualty posting especially the medical and surgical ones were like battlefield! You can forget rest or food and all you can hope for is a few hours of sleep if you are lucky!
Many times the intern is faced with difficult sleeping arrangements and poor restrooms. As guys we would still manage but I guess for the lady interns it would have been more difficult for sure.
The intern and the residents are actually the backbone of the hospital and without them the whole system breaks down. I still remember how one day strike by the junior doctors would bring the whole hospital to a standstill!
The only people who have some sympathy for the poor interns would be the old matrons or the patients who get well!
No other person cares about them. They are the lowest in the hierarchy and treated like that.
The old adage of only suffering makes a good doctor must go!
Would you like a doctor who had barely had sleep or rest or food to treat you? What would be his or her mental capacity?
The seniors do not take them seriously since they are only ‘temporary worker’ with little knowledge and not much experience while for everyone else including the patients they are invisible…
Hopefully the sad state of the intern gets better. Not everyone can be a super hero like birthday celebrity Mahesh Babu…
A quick sketch while travelling and a personal blog in honour of the poor unfortunate doctor…may she get justice…
We can only hope
Shubh ratri…
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