It has been over six months and I have been cycling through my clinical rotations as an intern at the Govt. Medical College & Rajindra Hospital  Patiala. Mobiles have been used and will be but a rather interesting way I have been using my Nokia N82 round the clock is all together a different stroke. As an intern you are to run behind the residents and complete files, wake up whole nights so that your seniors can get a good nap and get all the things together to fix up a good cup of tea for the Boss. Besides this you also have to study to keep up with the latest in the field of Medicine. Let us walk through a rather usual day at the hospital which I go through now and then and how my Nokia N82 keeps me on the go.

Time 06:00 Hrs

Alarm, alarm, alarm………… Somewhere from the quilt a hand comes out takes the N82 in its hand and flip it to put it on snooze (thanks to Accelerometer technology and Flipsilent). After a couple of minutes I take my head out and look at the wall clock, realizing I have to get ready and reach the hospital before the Boss I make a dash for the washroom. The clock ticks on the twelve numbered face and I race to get things in order and suit up for the day. Now guys on Tuesday we have cases listed to go through operations so I have to carry an extra bag which has my OT kit. Securing my kitand taking my cell and I take off for the Hospital.

Time 07:00 Hrs

Making my way through the morning traffic of school buses, cycles, rikshaws and pedestrians I reach the main hospital building and do a rather unorthodox parking of the PCP 500. Clocking 3 minutes and 46 seconds on the stopwatch. Wow..! I was improving. As I made my way through the ER I got a text from my senior resident to visit the ward to collect the files of the list we had for surgery today. Getting the files I texted back that I am now on way to the Operation theatre.

Time 08:00 Hrs

The Boss makes his way in to the OT. Taking a look at the list he calculates in his mind how to proceed through the day and leaves for a quick morning tea giving orders which ought to be complete before he comes back. These include Hb, CBC, BT, CT, Platelet Count etc. for various patients. Looking up at the seniors I know its no use as I have to go through with these along with the pulse and blood pressure reading (on my To-Do list) which I knew I had to take and for which I had thirty minutes. I took out my Nokia N82 and set up a reminder for 08:30 Hrs to wash up for the OT session and complete the files with the required test results as well.

Time 09:00 Hrs

The Boss comes in and I have the results ready with me. A patient was put on hold as his Hb was less and could not be operated before raising his Hb to a certain level. So I had to explain this to his family and tell him about Blood transfusion in detail. Now being an intern my job comes in only for assisting the surgeons and carrying out the fluorine system and sometimes when the Boss is happy to apply sutures and some other simple procedures. Trust me nobody wants the Boss to be angry so we have to be on our toes with everything. I gave a brief introduction about the blood transfusion process to the patient and emailed him a word file about it which I had saved in my memory card of the N82 right there. I came back quickly and we started with the days proceedings.

Time 14:30 Hrs

Well all went well and with the Boss happy it was sometime for us to try our hands on with the learning experience. Our residents taught us a few simple things from simple sutures to mattress and use of various instruments which all went along every procedure as well. Using my Nokia N82 which I had to give to the nurse as I had washed up, she made a video of me carrying out a simple procedure. At the end I thanked her and came out.

Now the next step was to click pictures of the entire specimens and save them to the Boss computer for his publication and record keeping. All this too with the help of the 5 Mega Pixel Auto Focus Carl Zeiss Optics of the Nokia N82 with awesome quality. Following are a few shots (Viewers Discretion Advised). We used to use a 3 MP Cannon Camera which i have not seen now for quite sometime.

(Gall Stones)

Time 15:00 Hrs

Shift patients to rooms and call friends for lunch and make plans for the evening. Complete files and give orders and finally at 14:00 Hrs leave. An amazing day continues but the wait for another day at Operation theatre begins. The above description sounds fun but believe me its a real tough day and a big contribution by my Nokia N82 to keep me going.