The incident I wish to reflect on in this entry happened last December 16, 2013 Monday.. For that day, there were not patients scheduled for treatment and so the interns were to do administrative duties (or admin duties for short), which I understood simply as clinic-related tasks. However, what I did instead of doing these was that I watched a movie, which is against the clinic rules.
Although I had initially no plans of watching a movie before I entered the clinic, what I did was my fault because no one forced me to do it. I do not blame anyone for having a movie on his or her laptop or for not reminding me that I was breaking a rule because I know the rules and the decision to watch was mine alone. My action reflects my lack of ability to set my priorities straight. I know that this is my weakness and I am trying to improve.
I am somehow grateful that a clinical supervisor had caught me in the act so that the lesson of “first things first” will be deeply ingrained into my mind. (I had to admit though that I find myself severely unfortunate to be caught red-handed, considering that most of the time, I religiously observe the rules, including the most easily evaded ones.)
Now if I were to go back to that day, what would have I accomplished if I was not reprimanded for watching? I may have added a movie or two on my list of “Already Watched Movies”. But now, I think it is more fulfilling to share that I had already done the 2014 attendance sheet of the patients decked to me, finished encoding the demographics for their endorsement notes and got to know my patients better by reading their previous notes.
Not that big accomplishments, but because I take a good amount of time to finish paper works, the things I did feel like a great head start to finishing my backlogs for my pediatric rotation.
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