Week 13

This Monday we had our quiz on English speaking countries, I think it was a little too specific. I didn't studied enough (only one hour), and if the teacher hadn't changed the amount of points that each wrong answer worth I would've failed the test. On Wednesday we had a small task about plagiarism that was easy, but for homework we had to read three short stories that were difficult to understand so it took me about an hour of reading. This Sunday was a little busy one. The first service was a man that had crushed and fell off his motorcycle. When we arrived he had already received first aid from "Protección Civil", they did almost everything right. He had an exposed bone fracture of his left tibia. That same day it seemed that the population wanted to traumatize; at the end of the day IMSS's #21 Trauma Hospital was fool of patients, only ourselves were responsible of transporting 4 patients there. We also receive a call from a lady that was going to abort her baby, she was in paint and starting labor work after only 6 months of gestation. Finally, that day we attended a call inside a Walmart of a lady that fell down and injured her hip. After the physical exploration we knew she was completely faking, perhaps she was tired of working there and wanted some vacations. We realized that because she said that different parts of her body hurt and the trauma kinematics didn't match quite well. When we were transporting her to the hospital we discovered with our interrogation questions that she was taking antidepressants and anxiolytics. Just 5 minutes before my 12 hour guard was going to finish the GPS got a notification from a call, we were really tired and thanks god we got covered by the new guard. A service can entertain us even 3 hours, and I needed to read enough to be able to respond to any question my physiology teacher would like to ask next day in the morning while a give the class, so I decided not to sleep. 

Week 12

For this first week after our short but worthy spring break we worked on our country cultural presentations. It was an easy and entertaining task as it was getting to present it to the class. This was a relaxed week for me because I still felt as in vacations in most of my classes, even though my last partial exam approached quickly enough. Last Saturday I took my pharmacology test, and it wasn't as difficult as I imagine; I really studied hard for that one. Now all my courses' grades are safe, but that doesn't mean I should relax. Sunday was a nice day, the climate was perfect for the ambulance guard, when the climate is too hot it become an oven. I attended that morning a patient that lived near ITESM in the street Rio Nasas. He wasn't a part of a high sociocultural class, he had had a kind of fight last night while he ran from someone who eventually got to him and stab him in the back; the wound was big but not that deep. He didn't wanted to get hospital attention even though we told him he obviously needed to be check, he was still bleeding while drinking from his "caguama" beer s bit drunk. We cleaned his wound and applied a bandage and leave, there is nothing else we can do if someone refuses to get free health attention.  It is somehow disappointing to know there are this kind of people who are used to be in trouble and don't seem to be worried about their future and health. People like this end up with a chronic diseases of infections that are really disturbing and difficult to treat. On another service I attended a hypoglycemic diabetic patient, he had injected his insulin and forgot to eat last night. He was just laying down with his eyes opened and without any other response; his glycemia was 30mg/dL which totally explained his symptoms. We canalized him with a a solution of 5% glucose and in five minutes he was already standing up and talking, This type of emergencies are really common in Mexico.