Sunday, June 02, 2019

End of Psychiatry Posting


Already miss psych posting so much. Appreciate all our tutors who have taught us so much, through direct teaching, their passion and patience, their superb communication skills with the patients. What inspired me the most is the sincerely friendly smile they gave to psychotic patients (whose behaviours caused them stigma and hostility), their pure intention to wish the best for their patients. Exposure I have gotten in psychiatric ward and clinic (with forever gentle Dr Hashim) in H.S.A is the most invaluable experience I would never forget, especially the easy interaction I observed in the ward round team, which I believe is an important element contributing to effective and healthy work environment.

Transition from H.S.A to Permai is interesting. Being able to observe the different clinical presentation among acute male patients and chronic female patients is an experience I treasure, not forgetting the ward round I joined once, led by a psychiatrist whose name I forgot but whose personality and working style I immediately fell in love with.

Dr Jeya said every patient has a different story, that is what made psychiatry interesting every day. I couldn’t agree more. Behind every bizarre and eye-opening clinical presentation is a pure heart, who still loves their family, thinking about them all the time during their hospitalization, despite the fact that their family no longer share the same love, and are planning to abandon them due to social stigma and lack of education regarding mental health.

I wish to give them some love, now and in the future.

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