NewsLetterIssue4 April-June10.indd - RIS stories

HIGH SCHOOL
Do I Really Want to
Become a Doctor?
by Rungkarn (Sai) Rakkulchon
A once-in-a-lifetime experience, the two-day Bumrungrad
internship was definitely hard to forget. At the end of this
program, I realized what working inside the hospital was like,
and it was not too far off from what I had in mind. I have acquired
a lot of new knowledge, and this experience made me even more
certain that I am to pursue a career in the medical field.
Melissa (Lisa) Kerkelis
wo days of noteworthy
Texperience and twelve 11 th grade
students in search of what they want
to be. On the 25 th -26 th of March,
2010, we went to Bumrungrad
Hospital to experience what a real
hospital was like. As an IB diploma
student, I am interested in studying
both law and psychology, thus, I was
the only social science student in the
group. Questions were raised as to
why I was attending this internship
program, but were quickly forgotten
once we started because we learned
that there are many types of jobs in a
hospital, not just doctors and nurses.
The mundane routine shows you see
on TV is nothing like what the nurses
in Bumrungrad are doing. These
nurses are the utmost important
people. In the ER, the nurses are
those who pick up the calls and are
the ones who go with the ambulance
to pick up patients. The amount of
operating room use is also dependent
on the number of nurses available.
The nurses not only follow up and
take care of the patients, they are the
ones who remember the patients’
cases for the doctors.
People often complain about the cost
of their treatment, but they never really
appreciate where the cost actually
comes from. For the best treatment
the hospital can provide, they also
need the best machines. Giving
patients the wrong medication is
extremely problematic and therefore
to prevent this, Bumrungrad bought
a Pharmacy Robot to help lessen this
risk. This robot seals and arranges the
medicine for each different patient
a n d
cost 60 million
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