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I received a few jokes in my email recently as well as in my blog comments, regarding the quality of our current doctors. I was told that these were real incidents that happened to some of the doctors in Malaysia and if it is true, I am really speechless!! It may give us a good laugh but at times you probably have to cry thinking that these are the people who are going to treat us sooner or later. The last one for sure is a true incident in a local private university!

Incident 1:

HO#1: The bloodbank did not have any blood to send up for this patient.
MO: How can that be? No blood at all?
HO#1: No, they said completely zero. They even confirmed it with a +.
MO looks at the chart to verify. Written on the chart was O+.

Incident 2:

MO: Patient is low on Vit B12. Please order this for the patient.
The next day:
HO#2: The pharmacy did not have any Vit B12. But I took care of the problem. I gave the patient 2 doses of Vit B6.

Incident 3:

 A patient with severe pleural effusion was admitted with respiratory distress. A medical officer asked a houseman whether he know how to perform a (pleural) tapping or not? Unsurprisingly, the houseman answered yes confidently. The MO then went to attend other cases.

Half an hour later, he came back and saw the houseman repeatedly “tapping” the patient’s back with his hand!

Incident 4:

A local private university was conducting their Formative OSCE examination for Year 4 students(this is a true story!!). The student suppose to interview a simulated patient(SP) for minor depression:

Med Student: Do you have any suicidal intention?

SP : No

Med Student: Why Not?

SP: @#%$^