First and foremost, I want to assure you that every picture on this blog is taken with permission of the appropriate parties. As my first example, the photo below was permitted by an anatomy professor - so long as the bodies were covered, I was covered. Therefore, I'm sorry, there will be no gross anatomy pics in this blog (get it?! gross anatomy... ya know cause it's... oh nevermind).
Anyways, it's day one and I'm already out of breath. It's not that we did tons today - actually, today was fairly mellow. To begin with, we "met" our cadavers - 27 bodies in total. Mine is male, old, and thankfully not obese (others were not so lucky).
Later we got to meet our first live patients too! A panel of 6 actual patients invited by our professors came to give us advice on how to be better doctors and to take our questions. It was a good bunch with complex diagnoses and complicated relationships with the medical system. Here are some of the takeaways: - Don't treat patients as numbers/diagnoses
- Listen
- At minimum, glance at the pt's history before entering the room
- Go that extra mile to show a personal investment
- Impressions are made immediately
- Be present for every patient and don't bring the baggage of the previous patient into the room
After this, we had to take a diagnostic test for biostatistics, on which we all confirmed that we don't remember statistics. What's variance again? r²? z-score? chi square? It's like high school French: I recognize that they are valid words, but I couldn't use them in a sentence if my bibliothèque depended on it ...or something like that.
TIL: The 2nd ribs can be located by palpating for the sternal angle and moving laterally.
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