Cardio clinic day

Another cardio clinic today....and one that I don't look forward to. Why? Because I heard there will be about 200 patients coming today. That's normal you say but considering the fact that today is the pre-congress meeting of the NHAM Annual Scientific Meeting at the Hilton KL (NHAM: National Heart Association of Malaysia) and the fact that most of the cardiologists will be at the meeting (some one conveniently had an 'oversight' and forgot to cancel or cut down the patient load in the clinic); the clinic today will be run by a skeletal team of junior doctors and 2 specialists who will be staying back (God bless their souls!).

Am I mad? Yes, but I am also resigned to the fact that things are not reversible now. Just put on a brave front and plough on. I would expect many angry patients today and equally angry and frustrated doctors and nurses today. I wonder what time the clinic will end. There will be about 5-6 doctors seeing 200 odd patients; each patient takes anything between 5-30 minutes; so, you do the maths....