I was watching a local drama. By local, I mean drama made in this country which I reside in.
Scene 1: The doctor is in a clinic, discussing about hypertension and diabetes to the patients. Then come another patient with asthma... I assume it is asthma because the patient told the doctor that she is having shortness of breath... and because the doctor told the patient that it's asthma... well a real life doctor would inquire about wheezing, duration, intensity and so on... before coming into a diagnosis of asthma. Funny. And the doctor gave the patient prescription for her illness... so I assume that the doctor is an internist... or anybody specializing with medicine, internal medicine.
Scene 2: The same doctor received a call from his wife. He told her wife that he could not join her for dinner... because he would have to perform a surgery... yes surgery.
It's not a surprise that the laymen sees a doctor as super-human... because of the lies shown by the local drama. An Internist/Surgeon... a rare type of doctor, but not so rare in the telly. Drama doctors are cure-it-all specialist... a branch of medicine which is beyond reality yet very common in local dramas.
Scene 3: The same doctor rushed into a labour room. Apparently, his wife is in labour. He then donned a surgical mask and help the midwives. No cardiotocogram (CTG) machine seen, which is funny since it is a vital apparatus in the labour room... well at least in this region. Even if the baby is crowning, there's no way that the CTG machine would be removed from the suite. And he is not wearing any apron... funny.
If I were the doctor, I would wear an apron first... maybe two layers of apron, after an incident which I have to walk back home in a scrub because my trousers were wet from the gushing amniotic fluid. Surgical mask is not necessary considering that the mother to be is my own wife. So apron first then mask. Mask is important too because we may not know what the patient have; TB, flu etc.
I guess the doctors in the drama are superhuman since they can monitor the fetal heart rate without the CTG machine. Yes, we do use Pinard's stethoscope but to monitor one, you'll have to listen to it for the whole night... or day... and using a Pinard's stethoscope is not easy.
Now the big question, is the doctor an internist or surgeon or OB/GYN specialist?
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