Tools of the Trade XIV
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I’ve decided to ‘unload’ today and show you what’s on my person everyday when I go to work.
From top (clockwise):
1. Name tag
2. Magnalite torch
3. SE K618i handphone
4. Palm Treo 650
5. Littman Lite Stethoscope (for PM rounds, in the morning, I carry the Littman Cardio)
6. Eyeglo eyedrops (yours truly has dry eyes)
7. Name chop/rubber stamp
8. Pen
9. Room keys
10. A packet of tissue papers (very handy when consoling grieving relatives)
11. Canon Ixus 40 Camera
I used to carry more when I was a HO. My ‘burden’ then included:
1. Lab forms of all kinds and sizes
2. Xray forms
3. Consent forms
4. The Sarawak Manual
5. My little notebook
6. Milo 3-in-1 (there was no time to eat!)
7. Last week’s KFC receipt
8. Some non-descriptive organic material (ugh!)
I guess the load gets lighter as one gets more senior. 
Now tell us what do you carry on you?
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October 8th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Er, it’s a Treo 680
October 8th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Thanks for pointing it out palmdoc. Typo there. Corrected already.
October 8th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Jimbo, my battle gear is similar to yours.
1. nametag
2. 2 pens (freebies) – must have backup!
3. samsung u600 phone – has a nice camera (if subject doesn’t move : very slow shutter)
4. palm TX
5. pendrive
6. post-it notes
7. all sorts of paper scraps, including current call list
8. punch card
9. Littman classic II
10. name chop
11. carkeys
12. alcohol wipes
October 8th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I cannot understand why Jimbo has to carry 2 phones and 2 cameras. Kiasu?
October 9th, 2007 at 1:48 am
I had a small messenger bed now to carry all my stuff as my white coat ran out of space to stuff everything in
1. ID tag with sum of the akreditasi cards clipped together at its back plus name tag
2. Pen torch
3. 3 pens (need 2 for backup)
4. pen drive
5. car keys
6. money for food
7. Name chop
8. E368 phone (that always breaking down, battery ran out etc)
9. Sarawak Manual
10. My trusty notebook (where I compiled a lot of my notes since HO days – like drug dosing, diagnosis criteria, hospital numbers and pagers)plus oncall list, paper scraps for jotting referrals, to do list etc
11. ECG made easy
12. MC book (since I run the MOPD a lot)
13. Stethoscope
14. Drug book
15. oxford handbook
- yeah I really need to switch over to palm treo one of these days-
October 9th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Yeah a PDA phone like the Treo 680 will replace 8,9,10,11,14,15 !
October 9th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Btw if you guys would like what you have in your pockets (in a typical work day) featured in the Tools of the Trade™ photoblog series here, just send on an email to me with the picture attached with the description.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Fibrate, wrong there, i have THREE cameras on me! My handphone and Treo both have one, and my Canon of course. Not because I am kiasu la, the Canon is for taking good images while the others came with the phone, so I can’t do anything about that!
October 9th, 2007 at 7:42 am
huajern and dytia, for pen back-up, I ask from my MO or HO, everyone here carries more than 2 pens at least (except yours truly).
October 9th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Ah but palmdoc, a Treo will remove item no 6 from dytia’s list!
October 9th, 2007 at 8:06 am
jimbo – my specialist also always do that. That’s why need at least 2 pen backups
October 9th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
jimbo,
like dytia, I need another pen as back up for my consultant!
October 9th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
palmdoc – treo huh… want to upgrade phone but… argh.. this year no bonus. How to get?
October 9th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
dytia: http://medicine.com.my/wp/?p=2532