Few days ago, i was at the clinics doin the usual stuff - history taking with patients. My unit took the case this 35 year old male patient who was having some respiratory problem - cough with blood-stinged sputum, breathlessness, fever. Thought it was some common disease, until our professor came by about half an hour later, tellin us that he was a TB patient.
TB!!!!!
oh mai gawddddddddd.
"Do you people want to get TB?" he asked, with a straight face.
Silence. All of us were probably too shocked to even breathe.
"You were in such close proximity with this patient, i won't be surprised if any of you come to me later tellin me you have TB. All these years I've had students who had contracted TB, like one student a month."
Silence. All of us were probably too shocked to even breathe.
"You were in such close proximity with this patient, i won't be surprised if any of you come to me later tellin me you have TB. All these years I've had students who had contracted TB, like one student a month."
Silence. I thought i was gonna choke and die at that very moment.
Oh come on, we're only 2nd year medical students you can't expect us to just KNOW that the patient had TB by just looking at him. Nobody even cares about what we do at the clinics. Professors, doctors are always doing their own thing. So of course we had no choice but to find a random patient and take his/her case. The hospital's so poor that they can't put these TB patients in a separate ward. and as though it's still not bad enough, they just had to close the windows to make the room even more stuffy.
Anyway, on the next 4 days, i felt fine so yea. PHEWWWW.
But today. TODAY. i'm sick. Nose is running, sneezing non stop, slight cough, fever, sweats, weakness.
i'm usually not a paranoid person, and i know it's not THAT easy to be infected by TB virus (i've done my research!), but can someone pleaseeee just assure me that i AM just being paranoid and nothing's gonna happen to me?
I just swallowed a power combo of clarinase, multivits, spirulina, along with a hot glass of honey. Imma go to bed now. kthxbai.
Oh come on, we're only 2nd year medical students you can't expect us to just KNOW that the patient had TB by just looking at him. Nobody even cares about what we do at the clinics. Professors, doctors are always doing their own thing. So of course we had no choice but to find a random patient and take his/her case. The hospital's so poor that they can't put these TB patients in a separate ward. and as though it's still not bad enough, they just had to close the windows to make the room even more stuffy.
Anyway, on the next 4 days, i felt fine so yea. PHEWWWW.
But today. TODAY. i'm sick. Nose is running, sneezing non stop, slight cough, fever, sweats, weakness.
i'm usually not a paranoid person, and i know it's not THAT easy to be infected by TB virus (i've done my research!), but can someone pleaseeee just assure me that i AM just being paranoid and nothing's gonna happen to me?
I just swallowed a power combo of clarinase, multivits, spirulina, along with a hot glass of honey. Imma go to bed now. kthxbai.
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