Doctor Jones' Typical Day

Doctor Jones' Typical Day

A typical day in the medics' world is replete with so many emergencies that no one day is exactly comparable to the other. Dr Jones on average does 50 hours per week when the hospital is not quite busy. Some days are at times so lengthy and strenuous at the work place that the average is at times pushed to around 80 hours. On average he spends about seven hours seeing his patients in his office, followed by about two hours of meeting the patients at their hospital beds.

Dr Jones also expends lots of time carrying out administrative functions such as updating records for the patients, meeting the hospital's stakeholders and attending to miscellaneous issues within the office. He arrives at the hospital at 7.30 a.m. and goes straight into reviewing radiology as well as laboratory findings on tests done on patients the day before. He then requests his assistants to callback the patients, concerning the findings and any recommended prescriptions. He also completes the records which concerned nurses are supposed to file.

Patients who are required to see him in the office during the morning hours have several tests done on them, and he answers the questions which they may have on the prescriptions given. Some other days begin with him seeing about five walk-in clients. Between 8.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m., walk-in clients are allowed into his office, together with those with appointments to see the doctor. The patients who see him around this time have various conditions, ranging from diabetes, hypertension, colds and various childhood health complications, among other concerns.

After 11.00 a.m., Dr Jones moves to the wards, where assesses and advices on the progress made by the patients, all this time he is preoccupied with doing various checks on the patient's chest, thyroid glands, head, eyes, mouth, ears, stomach region, nose and throats. He also checks on the neurological processes of the patients and examines their extremities. Dr Jones talks to his patients during the ward rounds, advising them on various wellness techniques as well for purposes of assessing if they have developmental or speech disorders (Sears, 2011).

After the ward rounds, he fills in loads of paperwork, filling in the reports about the patients' conditions on their files, and also filling in various prescription forms. For around 15 minutes, he meets the pharmacy staff for review of prescription samples. For cases which he deems to be highly complicated, he takes a few minutes to talk to his colleagues as well as seniors about them. He usually moves into the hospital cafeteria with his colleagues at 1 p.m.

Within the cafeteria, he is also preoccupied with reviewing laboratory reports, and also some pharmaceutical companies' marketing representatives walk in to inform them of their companies' products. Also during the lunch hour, he meets