I am doing a family practice rotation and trying to set up elective rotations and plan for applying to residency. I am also just busy and tired out in general. I can’t write about much of what I see day to day without discussing my patients or my attending physicians and residents in a way that might be ethically questionable.But, I do want to write about something that happened recently.A ...
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Bereavement related depression and consoling a new widow
I am really enjoying my geriatrics rotation.Although my attending preceptor is primarily a geriatrician, and practices deep in the heart of retiree central in southeast Florida, he also sees some patients who are younger. I took a history on a patient who was younger than me today, in her early thirties.She started off complaining about insomnia and headaches, and then said ...
How two different attending physicians approach similar conditions
I recently finished my second month of internal medicine. I had a different attending physician for each month. It is interesting to see how two different attending physicians will approach similar conditions. There is a lot of flexibility in the standard of care. Neither of them is wrong by any stretch of the imagination. Just different.It is also amazing how much of a difference a good, well informed resident can ...
Successful surgery rotation tips
I recently finished my two months of surgery rotations.I am happy to say that I really enjoyed my surgery rotations. I thought I was going to be intimidated by the OR, but I found it fascinating. I am relieved, since surgery is a big part of OB/GYN.Here are a few things I learned on my surgery rotation:
- Scrub in before the surgeon but after the OR nurse.
- Before you scrub in, introduce ...
Empathy cannot be simply turned on and off
In our clinical years, our medical school has instituted a program in which we do learning modules along with our in hospital experience and didactics.I was happy to see a module on empathy for my second month of surgery. The last question to be answered in this module was: "Although the studies on empathy are very consistent other authors have indicated that medical students are really not losing cognitive empathy, ...
