GHKL the Great

was in HKL doing my electives for 1 month from June 13 to July 9. It was a great experience but i hope it wud stay that why cos i dun have the interest to go and work there. U r a kind of a stranger do your own work kind but well i may just know less.
HKL patient vise has of cos a greater variety coming from different creed compared to HSNZ. U got foreigners, malays indians and what not. Even the doctors also there are of all races. In addition you would come across suicide cases, homeless, jailbirds.
And of cos there is also a variety of diseases compared to HSNZ. I saw tetanus, reynauds. In the ward i was in is like a dumpster ward where all types of cases get admitted in there first only later distributed around to respective wards. So u can see psychiatric cases, GI cases incl hepatobiliary, even ortho. optha
Condition of ward HSNZ is better - less cramped, not like a market and not as hot. In HKL there are many cases of Hospital acquired pneumonia - whats there to wonder when it is so obvious that the ventilation is poor there. Also tak ceria, gloomy. One can faint there, so better have breakfast before work.
Doctors staff there are friendly and u wud get help when u ask. U can go anywhere provided ur basic courtesy is there to ask permission and greet. Altough they are nice better dont play around.
We meet other students from other uni who are also doing their electives there - AIMST, Liverpool, UPM, UKM - we did exchange a few words and stuff but they were busy with their own stuff.
What we do there is basically the same as what we do here in HSNZ - we followed ward rounds, clerked cases, did procedures (depends on ur supervisors) and sometimes helped doctors with some of their task including clerking and calling patients relatives.
Had the experience of helping a doctor to find a psychiatric patient next of kin by calling a list of number he gave. Yes - could have just called Jabatan Kebajikan but they wud take a week and more paperwork so to avoid that.... .
There the patient is seriously in you hands and you are expected to do everything for the patient. The nurses seem to do less work there. Some doctors say they are doing lots of unnecessary work and some which is not theirs....and yeah they are all more stressed up compared to the ones in HSNZ.
Had also the experience of my specialist asking me to do a peritoneal tap in a chronic liver disease patient. 1st time - ooo what honor.
Also had an opportunity to help a nurse get a manic state psy patient sit dwn for his injection. He later told me i cannot be trusted haha :P
My supervisor specialist told me not to go to clinic cos its a waste of time haha.
The turnover rate in the ward is very high - every day new patients are at the bed. This ward is the first stop ward. From here the patient is dx stabilized 1st line given then transferred to other proper wards or discharged.
At time one only can feel that HSNZ is much more in order and more systematized then HKL believe it or not but both has they pros and cons. HKL is not computerized not even partial.
Well to get into HKL - go to the website get the form from there, call them set a good repo and u wud get in. also depends on ur luck

HKL was a good experience.