Had the opportunity to follow my MO to go to Hospital Tanjung Karang (a district hospital under our coverage) yesterday for our monthly surgical outpatient clinic there.
It took us just over an hour to reach the place. Instead of going straight to the hospital, our MO decided to start the day with a breakfast at a local kopitiam (right opposite the hospital, to be exact).
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Much to my MO’s amazement, we managed to finish the clinic by 12.30pm (because he had a very efficient personal assistant/ secretary… Ahem… ME! 
).It was a great experience to us all because we are so used to the computers in our own hospital, we find all the forms that we need to fill in to order blood or radiological investigations amusing. Even the staff nurses laughed at us.
With the clinic over, we then made our way to the ward (being the unofficial secretary for the day, I carried my MO’s bag ) before heading to the operating theatre.
The minor OT…
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Our destination was the major OT…
(We were laughing our heart our because of the spelling and the use of the word ‘pembelahan’ instead of ‘pembedahan’. “Doctor, this OT was opened before you were born,” said the staff nurse. )
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Which appeared very empty as compared to our OT which is equipped with all sorts of machines and equipment.
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Just like kids in a playground, we explored the place. The scrub room was ancient. Ours have sensors to turn the tap on/off. This one… manual. Again, the staff nurse (while laughing at us) reminded us that the place was built long before we were born.
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The solution bottles are made of glass… (can hardly see one of them these days).
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And the rusty suction machine…
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After our procedure (yes, we didn’t just go there for fun; we had to do a procedure on a patient), much to our amusement, our MO had to write the report manually (at our hospital, everything is computerised, including operative reports).
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All work done, we headed to a nearby fishing village.
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We actually went to two different places. The first one to buy (fresh) prawns, and the second one to buy fish.
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Browsing through the items on sale…
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Among the selection…
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We stared in awe as the guy expertly skinned the ray fish (bought for our specialist who didn’t go with us). These people can really make good (fish) surgeons, don’t you think?
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Another topic of discussion was the anatomy of ray fish.
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Shopping done, we made our way to Kuala Selangor for lunch.
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It was a riverside restaurant; similar to the one I’ve been before. 
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We had mantis prawn, squid and fish for lunch. Yummy! 
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Main course done, we then stopped at a roadside stall for some pandan coconut. It’s coconut… But it has the nice pandan aroma.
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The lady opened up the coconut right in front of us…
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And served them fresh, without additives.
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I thought that was the end of our day trip but our MO had something else in mind. He took us through a different route back to the hospital. Much to our surprise, he stopped at a flower orchid nursery near Rawang. If you’re heading north on the North-South Highway, exit at Rawang and turn left at the traffic light. Go straight until you pass another traffic light. It should be somewhere on the right. I don’t remember the name of the nursery but I think it has the word ‘union’ in the name.
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The place is full of all sorts of orchids. Some of them are really cheap (RM2 per pot of orchid) but some are really expensive (can go to hundreds of ringgit per plant).
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This is jasmine orchid… It really smells like jasmine. Interesting, huh?
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And that was the end of our outing. 
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