Tuesday, September 16, 2008

it's a kids' world


My cellphone camera was not able to capture the colors well, but these student nurses are wearing baby pink and minty green duty scrubs. They are, afterall, on their rotation at the pediatrics department, where studies have shown that white uniforms were given the thumbs-down and lip-corners-down ratings whereas clothes with colorful cartoony prints were more kid friendly.



The pediatrics department is also where my family and I have been camping at, sort of, this past week as my nine-year-old nephew, the son of my brother, had the dreaded dengue.

The pediatrics department is also where teachers, mothers and a couple of students from the SU Elementary School, visited to bring cheer to the patient and to the sleepless parents, as well as bring get well soon cards and letters. That was really sweet of them.

Pediatrics is actually the specialty that I wanted to go into for aren't chubby little babies the cutest patients ever? But during clerkship I realized that screaming and squirming chubby babies were nightmares especially when it comes to IV insertion so I opted to specialize in something else. Plus, there are the (sometimes domineering) parents, grandparents, aunties, yayas, ates, kuyas and cousins to contend with. Suddenly you don't have just one patient but a whole flowering family tree as well.


8 comments:

Vk-mahalkaayo said...

Hello Dr, Ness,

good evening,

please, if you have time, can you visit me?
kadiyot lang.....

i have something for you, i do hope you like it....

A Bunny- planting some flowers, caring anybody....

thank you again.........

Vk-mahalkaayo said...

nindot ilang soot.......klaro ang mga bata dili na mahadlok....
happy pa sila kay ang color nindot man.

puti and green, hadlok nako ani, kung makita nako.....sorry to say....
exp, ko for having so many op´s, last yr.

goodnight..........

Kittymama said...

Pediatrics is a tough field and it makes grown men and women cringe when it comes to procedures done on squirming, squealing babies. This is one field that never ever crossed my mind. (Megamom is one though and she amazes me!) But I have to agree, babies are the cutest creatures on earth, when they're not squirming and squealing, that is, heehee.

ness said...

Hi Vicki,

thank you very much for the cute bunny you sent me!

ness said...

Hello KittyMama,

Saludo talaga ako sa mga pediatricians. Especially sa pedia ng pamangkin ko. She handles children ever SO GENTLY! It is an awesome thing to behold, how she examines her patients.

Vk-mahalkaayo said...

Dr. Ness,

thanks gusto mo ang bunny, i select it that bagay gyd sa imoa.

thanks diay, nawala ang comment bar, gitulog na ko gabii igo natapos ko adto.

i think nasulti nako nimo, nga my SIL nagwrks diha as nurse, i don´t know if she is permamente, pero dugay na cya diha.

naa kono siya sa pedi, department.

sorry, di man god ko manguti-nguti nila....hilomon kaayo ni cya.

di motingog ug di nako kuriton...lol

Iya ngan, Grace Uy.....

thnks again........

Vk-mahalkaayo said...

diay, Why Not...oo diha ko mopalit ug mga german sausages, bread and sauce nila....

duna gani sila sauerkraut and bratwurst.....lol
german flavor gyd.

have you try this at them?....presently mao akong lunch ron....lol

cgi si bernie n sascha dha, pag ayaw nila ang loto ni mama, moanha sila duha dha, diha mokaon....

mahiubos gyd si mama n akong sisters uy...lol
di na kono sila moloto pra nilang 2.

thanks again.......bye

Vk-mahalkaayo said...

But I have to agree, babies are the cutest creatures on earth, when they're not squirming and squealing,

katawa ko ani uy.......lol