Forensic Expert !!! 法政先锋

It's been sometimes since last i uploaded about my medical life in Bali..
Time flies, I had finished my 1st part of clinical years ( "surgery cycle" ) and now it comes to the 2nd part of clinical years which we called it as "medical cycle".
Well, for your information, Surgery Cycle is more about skills and "action", meanwhile Medical Cycle is more about study and knowledge, which include the following :

1. Radiology
2. Forensic
3. Pediatrics
4. Internal Medicine
5. Public Health
6. Ophthalmology
7. Psychiatry

I have 4 weeks time in Forensic department, had been gone through the 1st week and now comes to the 2nd week. I wanna write a lil bit about what happened for the past 1st week.

• had been went through two autopsy : Neonatal Cases which suspect infanticide. Another one is homicide of an adult. It's really interesting when doctor was explaining about what we discovered and deduced the time of death, the way the corpse might killed, and revealed the cause of death throughout the process of autopsy. In the same time, it only the smell of corpse which we really need to endure. The culture over here, we are not allowed ( hmm... not to say not allow, but it is "better not" ) to wear face mask, the reason given is by not wearing face mask is a way of respect the dead bodies. Thus, there are NO one wearing masks during the autopsy, so if you insist to wear, you looked VERY WEIRD among the people !!! so what i did was using my fingers and pinched my nose when i really couldn't stand with the smell. But most of the time, no much people pinch their nose too.. so i am one of the weirdooooo...!!! Gimme sometime, I will learn to be immune to the smell !

• Two times of experience in performing External examination ( 验尸) : One was died on traffic accident, and he only 18 years old. So please everyone, ride / drive carefully ! Don't lose your life because of traffic accident, It really heartbroken to see the parents cried bitterly upon their death children. Another cases was about sudden cardiac arrest of a young army , 22years old, experienced convulsion and died when he received punishment in the military forces of nation. Me and my friends , total of four, went to the military camp.. and what happened was we were well greeted by the captain and naval officers and crowded by over hundreds of soldiers. We went inside the center of the camp and saw a coffin covered by the flag of Indonesia. A good experience thou, something like what happened in the movie.

• Duty in forensic department include standby at the emergency room, recorded all the cases, assess the wound how it got hurt, handle all kind of cases include sexual assault, murder, suicide etc. I love the morning report, everyday each group will present the cases they encounter during their duty and we will discuss about the wound investigation, for the murder cases or if the corpse come with putrefaction, we learn to find out the identification of the corpse, investigation of death, their post-mortem changes, the blood stain, the mode of being killed and provide our findings or useful information and cooperate with the police.
  We have a meeting room for us to analyze the cases like what happened in the movie, and i really really salute the forensic doctors the way they analyze and explain the cases !

• Really gain a lot of interesting knowledge in this lab, especially how the killer would do on the corpse trying to mask up the real setting of the case. haha..!!! By studying forensic pathology, each case will reveal the truth !!! Sadly, there are still lack of forensic doctors in Indonesia. ( i not really know the condition in Malaysia ). There are only 3 forensic doctors in Bali, so everyday we can see the 3 doctors work like the mad ones but they still looked so happy.. Actually I really so curious the reason they choose to specialize in forensic. In Indonesia it is FREE OF CHARGE to specialize in Forensic because they wanna encourage more doctors to involve in this field. Although F.O.C. but from what i noticed, it is still not successful to attract doctors to specialize in this field.

This is the Forensic Canteen which located beside the forensic department, provided food and drinks for those unfortunate family... of course, doctors are welcome too.. haha...

This is the TWO LARGE CONTAINERS which people always talk about... it contained all the victim who are undetermined identity, or those who are not collected by their family. What i heard from my friends, it still contain the full body or part of body of the victims during the Bali BOM 2002.

DISASTER VICTIM IDENTIFICATION - the DVI TEAM which is really well developed in Bali especially after the incident of Bali Bom in year 2002.

During our 30 hours duty in forensic department which happened once in 3 days, you will see the offering or worships goods placed on the floor of each corner and in front of EACH room. From what my friend told me, by offering these to prevent "them" to "disturb" us during the night.

the ambulances which transporting the dead bodies to the hospital...

What we afraid the most during the duty is the sound of the corpse trolley coming to our way, which mean some one had died and we need to handle the dead bodies by performing external examination.

In all, case discussion and investigation is undeniably interesting, but frankly speaking, i still feel very scare in handling dead bodies or staying up at night in the forensic department.


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