Crow's Nest...

I am moving a bit ahead of the actual time frame on this blog. My orientation officially ended today. I am on one of the so called non-call months in ED. It therefore was not part of my duty at the end of the day to get the sign off from the senior G1s. I left the place earlier than most of my fellow interns. ED begins tomorrow and there is said to be a tnesion between the my parent department and ED bunch. And we are therefore relegated to seemingly trash work. But lets see what happens once I begin ED.

I have finished configuring my home network for the notebook and the all in one printer machine. It was a cumbersome process involving more than one software but everything worked out just fine. I was out buying a wireless router yesterday and the Best Buy guy wanted to sell me a Linksys G router with Geek Squad installation support for 108 bucks. I opted for a cheaper alternative instead. It is a wireless Linksys G router with no Geek Squad support. I am my own Geek Squad. Configuring the network took me sometime but saved me quite a lot of money. I mean connecting the router and enabling wireless access for the notebook was a walkthrough process which is self explanatory and that is what most of the home users use their networks for. Why on earth anyone would pay an extra 70 bucks for connecting a computer to the network. Connecting printers to the network is a bit complicated but not very difficult. If I can do it anyone can do it. So there is no point in paying any Geek ...

The orientation week is almost over. Just a few nitty gritty stuff left to do and then I am all set to go and launch in the world of medicine. Looking forward to the coming Monday. The system here is pretty different and that is something not very unexpected. But its all the technology that is taking it away. The system is paperless and thus very new for me. I am used to our very own and old tried and tested way of writing down everything about the patient on the paper and then making sure there are a million copies of each thing floating around in the air. Kind of messy but that's something I am used to back home. Here everything has to be done through computers or if possible at all through COWs (Computers on Wheels). These cows do not moo but move and this is something unlike all the cows we know of back in Pakistan. Anyhoo I am starting my rotation in ED and that should be fun to work in.

I plan to march out and march on to the land of opportunity before the long march of the lawyers reaches the capital and upsets the mundane routine of the bureaucracy . There are a few last minute things to be done before all is set to fly off.