My Panadol

Houseman Survivor Guide (Monkey Edition)
I. Introduction
II. Hospital Hierarchy
III. A Typical Day
IV. Painkillers
V. Meet The F*ckers


Surviving in the medical faculty, be it as a medical student or a doctor, is not an easy task. This is especially so when you are just a junior member of the team (ie a House Officer or a Medical Officer) because shit tends to gravitate downwards. Nevertheless, being the altruistic and impressionable young lokuns that we all were, we took the shit in the face (literally).
Tips to surviving medical housemanship/ internship will be dealt with in due course but two things shine in their contribution in making good doctors.

If you ask me what is the greatest drug ever made, I will without a doubt tell you its Panadol (paracetamol). A doctor can survive a drilling 24 hrs call without sleep but he might not be able to endure the next 8 hrs of work with his head throbbing and about to explode! Headaches are not only caused by energy sapping night calls but also by nurses running around like headless chickens when someone in the ward (usually an angry relative) collapses. The consequences are not only related to work as the good Dr also has to fulfil his/her partner's sexual needs!

The other is of course my daily dose of caffeine.