Monday, 21 November 2022

The Bath and Wound Dressing

Something light and short this time

When Dr. Dev (fictional name) joined Khota Medical College (fictional name) as a faculty member there was a shortage of junior resident doctors in the surgery department. This led to their increased workload. Due to excessive work, sometimes the junior resident doctors were not able to go to their hostel rooms for days in a row.

In Khota Medical College, there was the practice of dressing of open wounds once in two days i.e. alternate days. The logic behind it was that the healing process of the wound will be disturbed if the doctor changed the dressing more frequently. Whereas in AIIMS, New Delhi, where Dr. Dev had worked before, the convention was to do twice daily dressing of infected wounds.

Once Dr. Dev became the unit head, he wanted that the cleaning and dressing of infected wounds should be done at least once daily.

While on the clinical round, Dr. Dev thought to drive home the point to the junior residents by the use of a simile. He told the junior residents, 'Dressing the wound is like local hygiene. For personal hygiene we take a bath daily, even in winter, similarly, we should do daily dressing of the infected wounds and not on an alternate day.’

One of the overworked junior residents asked, 'Sir, I have not taken a bath in the last three days. Does that mean that I can do dressing once in three days?'

— ND

(Based on allegedly true incident.)

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