Today, lets see what really happens in one of the more famous scenes in a medical college - BEDSIDE CLINICS.
Any body who watches an average amount of TV would have definitely seen this - a group of medical students with the clinician, talking in an impressive language which definitely involves lots and lots of -itises, cardiac arrests, adrenaline, pyrexias ( for good old fever) etc etc. It looks so good on the screen, I swear we would give anything to be in those actors' places. Extremely composed, always knowing the answer, and able to come up with probable diagnoses on spot, they make us feel so good, because of the positive public image they are giving us.
Patients who have been to an actual teaching hospital will tell a different story though. Actually patients who have been to a teaching hospital will tell you to never ever ever get admitted in medical college. They have a reason why.
You see, every day we are supposed to work up patients. I think the name is very apt because we always manage to get the patient all worked up after we are done. That is not what the professors want though. By working up a patient we are supposed to get a detailed ( accurate and …show more content…
If it is the second, well, you will be lectured on why we should practice the art of medicine and not only the science. I feel that's a very high expectation - that they think we are practicing only the science. I shall consider myself the winner of a 10 million lottery if, at some point of life, I am actually practicing the 'science' of medicine. More of that later. We are still at the bedside right now. If you have finished the history, its a very big 'if' by the way, there's still a bigger mountain to climb. You are supposed to tell the physical findings. This is the real challenge. Forget murmurs and stuff, you never find anything that relates with the symptoms, but you always find things that don't
Any body who watches an average amount of TV would have definitely seen this - a group of medical students with the clinician, talking in an impressive language which definitely involves lots and lots of -itises, cardiac arrests, adrenaline, pyrexias ( for good old fever) etc etc. It looks so good on the screen, I swear we would give anything to be in those actors' places. Extremely composed, always knowing the answer, and able to come up with probable diagnoses on spot, they make us feel so good, because of the positive public image they are giving us.
Patients who have been to an actual teaching hospital will tell a different story though. Actually patients who have been to a teaching hospital will tell you to never ever ever get admitted in medical college. They have a reason why.
You see, every day we are supposed to work up patients. I think the name is very apt because we always manage to get the patient all worked up after we are done. That is not what the professors want though. By working up a patient we are supposed to get a detailed ( accurate and …show more content…
If it is the second, well, you will be lectured on why we should practice the art of medicine and not only the science. I feel that's a very high expectation - that they think we are practicing only the science. I shall consider myself the winner of a 10 million lottery if, at some point of life, I am actually practicing the 'science' of medicine. More of that later. We are still at the bedside right now. If you have finished the history, its a very big 'if' by the way, there's still a bigger mountain to climb. You are supposed to tell the physical findings. This is the real challenge. Forget murmurs and stuff, you never find anything that relates with the symptoms, but you always find things that don't