Saturday, June 13, 2009

Departmental Event - Food Poisoning!

My department had quite an incident recently. It all happened when we tried out a new food catering service for one of our conferences. It was kinda nice buffet-style dinner, with usual cuisines like chicken/ beef/ vege and ya, the mutton (which we all then think the most suspicious culprit!). The night after dinner was relatively uneventful - as compared to what happened the next day.

So this is our conversation 2 days later, and we are kinda "comparing" who's the most unlucky one:

Dr. A: "Hi guys, I just wanna find out, did you all feel anything wrong after the dinner that night? I think I had some really bad diarrhea."

Dr. B: "Exactly! You know what, I had to wake up at 5am and had some explosive diarrhea!"

Dr. C: "Oh mine is at around 7am...started with bad colicky abdominal pain...luckily I'm at home..."

Dr. D: "I think you guys are lucky. My onset is during a meeting at 9am and I have to hold it. They said I look pale and asked me whether I'm alright..."

Dr. E: "Hey guess what, I'm ON MY WAY to go back KL. Imagine it happened on the highway...I had to speed like a mad man to find toilet...I really glad I made it in the end..."

All of us think Dr. E seems to be the most unfortunate one...until Dr. F said something...

Dr. F: *clears throat* "Guys, I seriously don't think your experience is any closer to mine. I'm FIRST CALL on that day! I ran to toilet 2-3 times every hour! Tell me how to be on call!"

In the end we reported the food poisoning. And who said docs can't be sick? Almost the whole department personnel got it!

What a departmental event! =.=

9 comments:

叶子 said...

Lol.... in the end, how Dr F made it to oncall??? 2-3 times per hour, I guess he might need iv saline to replace his fluid loss..

Joethew said...

compylobacteriosis? yea..what if a doc has emergency during 1st call?no replacement at all?

Michelle Mak said...

LOL!!!!!
wat an exprience...
so with this hor...all medical lines staff can get sick! hehe...

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bingwui said...

gosh i hope i will never experience diarrhea on call. LOL!

Kit精。。。 said...

walau...den nxt time i sld avoid hosp free food???

confessions of a medical student said...

wahaha!! were you Dr F?

Darren Lee said...

叶子: Ya in the end he made it also..but suffered alot..hehe

Joethew: Hmm actually it'll be extremely to find replacement..so better not have any emergency..

Mich: Ya wat an experience..

KitJ1ng: Sometimes the free food look really nice and hard to avoid..;)

shinyin: No i'm not. I'm actually dr.E..the mad man on the highway haha;D

Esther said...

goshness, diarrhea at the wrong time isn't good. what happened after that?

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