The guy with the liver abscess....

Saturdays. Post-post-ad days in medicine.

Normally we have evening rounds…

I got my PGT to let me off evening rounds 2day. I had to meet a friend from school. Someone I’ve not met since we left school. The meeting turned out great, though her exact word was ‘appointment’, given the fact that she was meeting a (half) doctor. We sat at the CCD, City Centre, and talked to three hours straight!!! About what? Absurd question. About everything and nothing in particular. It was loads of fun, and I had no idea how time passed. Time stopped, literally… My watch stopped midway… :-P

At college, we have a bunch of patients with Liver abscesses admitted. I have no idea how Unit IV got 6 liver abscesses in one day of admission. One particular guy, with a nice Punjabi name, has one such abscess, spreading to his lungs. We wanted to aspirate the lung abscess, but did an USG prior to that. Turns out the abscess was 78mm deep to skin, and  measured 110mm x 97mm. 78mm is too deep for any needle commonly available in the wards. The longest we found was 48 mm. So, no drainage in the ward, and the patient was sent to Radiology for USG-guided drainage with a special long needle.

Kinjal