Super long morning report – so long that they ended up not doing report on all the patients, and Dr. Kung rushed through her usual Monday morning talk, the syndrome of the week.
Since I finished all of my data entry last week, I was a little unsure what my new task for this week would be. Dr. Kung and I sat down briefly, and we talked about coding my data, and about how I could help Kat with her project. Her data entry is similar to mine (though charts from 2010 as opposed to 2009), but she has to enter much more information than I did, and she’s using a database program called Microsoft Access that’s ONLY made for PCs. The original plan was for her to enter three months’ worth of data from 2009 – July through September. However, it’s much more labor intensive than Dr. Kung realized, so Kat only just finished the first month, last week. Dr. Kung asked me to go through the July charts, and cherry-pick all of the pediatric patients.
She took me to the new place where I’d be working on the charts, because that’s where there is a desktop available for me to work on. It’s in the Gaborone Dental Clinic, which is a sort of forgotten, tucked-away corner of the PMH compound. We were admitting again today, so I decided to spend the morning working on charts, and join things on the ward in the afternoon, if anything interesting came in. The new office is cold as mess, though, so I spent most of the morning moving the space heater progressively closer to my desk.
Boring rest of the day – missed rounds to work on charts ☹, got through a few days’ worth, had lunch with Kat, etc.
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