Personal Narrative: My Internal Medicine Rotation

“I know you don’t have a stomachache”, my school dorm warden in India said to me when I tried to reason with her why I can’t go to school. I was in my second grade and it was Parent’s day. My parents could not make it come that day. I was nervous about going to class without anyone. My warden sat with me started asking questions and she figured out my dilemma. She promised she would be coming with me. At the exact moment, my stomachache went away. I still remember holding my warden’s hand and proudly entering the class. I never missed a class after that. Later after my high school, when I saw her, I decided to ask her about the incident. Her answer is something that stays with me to this day. She told me, my body spoke a different story. From her, I learned that understanding a person is more than what the facts show: it’s about all the little factors involved that lead to the true bigger picture.

My Internal Medicine rotation helped me understand that skill more in depth and also put it in action. I remember a 40 years old man presented with a headache. On the same visit, I addressed to him about …show more content…
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