First week of duty: accomplished!
Finally, it's the first weekend and first day offs of many. I'm still adjusting, especially since the section I got into is Parasitology which is the busiest and toxic section of the Health Services Office (HSO) laboratory. We do fecalysis, which is one of the requirements (or steps) for getting a health certificate. HSO (and our duty) starts at 8, so like EDSA and other roads, it's the rush hour where the bulk of patients would submit their samples. Being in the reception for almost the entire week, it's fun and tiring to greet people, receive samples, release results. Never thought I'll be writing numbers, entering names and adresses on the log book, talking to more than a hundred of people in one day. In college, we were thought that we would deal with patients. Back then, I thought it would just be one or two or they would come and go, not a hundred or more one at a time. With the bulk of them, I only remember less than ten. Some of which I doubt submitted their actual and own samples. Or honest with their ages. Some were 15 or 16, already looking for jobs or getting a government issued ID. And I am also amazed, that there are still people beyond their 60s working. I'm quite sad though that we'll only be staying in the section for 13 days. And this coming week, we'll even have quizzes and exams. Well, that's all for now. Still hafta review.