Clerk's Notes 5: Wrath of the Vaginas
Just came from my first duty in VKMC, a government-owned tertiary-level hospital near where I live. For the record, VKMC is a fake name that I'm using for confidentiality purposes (I just googled it; there is no such thing as a VKMC in the Philippines [at least as far as the first page of the search results shows]). Anyway. We'll be rotating in VKMC for three weeks under Obstetrics-Gynecology, a particularly special rotation known for making interns out of clerks. The hospital is notorious for being a "baby factory," where hordes of pregnant women come to expel tiny humans out of their bodies. With two or three mothers sharing a single bed, you're watching over at least 30 patients at any given time, but this number differs depending on who you ask. Some will say they've done 100 patients at once. Some 200. Some 15 (which is pretty believable given the Pseudomonas outbreak in the hospital some months ago that resulted in some wards