I Live in a Clinic

Hello, my name is Anne. That's what most people call me. To my husband and family though, I am Nene. I can almost see your smiles and quizzical looks but that's just how it is. I just turned 30, married with no kids (yet).

I am a doctor and I live in a clinic. I just realized the truth in the second half of that sentence a few days ago.

You see, my husband is a doctor too. We are in this business called moonlighting. Somehow after passing the boards we found ourselves in this province called Laguna, where we are now working as GPs, or general practitioners. We do not have a "specialty". It's a personal choice, because we are planning to go take our expertise somewhere else.

Noy, my husband, goes on duty at a lying-in clinic in Cabuyao Mondays 6 am through Fridays 6 am. That's 96 hours straight. Doctors out there, especially the moonlighting ones, would understand why this is possible. He gets to sleep of course, sometimes a full 6 hours if he likes. Only a handful of patients would come at unforgiving hours.

I, on the other hand, work as a research doctor in Calamba - office hours only. Since I have no one to come home to, and since Mandaluyong (where our real home is, but where we get to stay on weekends only) is still quite far from Calamba at this day and age, I chose to "sleepover" at my husband's clinic while he's there. It's cheaper because I'm not paying for the services that I use - water, electricity, wifi, airconditioning. The owner is quite assured of the fact that she's got two doctors on duty 4 nights a week while paying only one. Hey, I'm a big help, FYI. A lot of female patients prefer female doctors, and allow me to say I have quite a following too :D.

So there, I live in a clinic. It really is comfortable at night when it's just us and the secretary/cashier/nursee/whatever-she-likes-to-be-called ate and everybody else has left. We lie on the examination tables and watch TV, eat dinner in the laboratory, read books and magazines amidst piles of medical records, surf the net until 4 am or when a pregnant patient is about to deliver whichever comes first.

That's why we get to do some blogging while at work. Well at least I do, since Noy mostly plays games. Now, though, I am enjoying this maiden (emphasis on the word. :P) issue. Im having fun and I hope you are too.