The Persistent Med Student

Med students can force you to stretch the ole brain muscle a little bit sometimes....

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[KAKABOTINI]

me, not a healthcare worker, not a med student, who never even slept in at a hospital: haha you can say that again. classic med student

[musomaster]

The biggest learning for med students is interpersonal skills in the workplace.

[Chimpy_Mc_Gibbon]

As a GP I’m sick of specialists doing scans and not telling the patient about it, and not referring for serious problems in other specialities. 90% of the time I DON’T KNOW THEM, I CANNOT MAKE A DETAILED REFERRAL, YOU HAVE DONE NO TESTS, YOU HAVE NOT TOLD THE PATIENT OR YOU JUST SAY SEE YOUR GP, CLEANING IT ALL UP WHEN WE ARE ALL TRAINED AS DOCTORS FIRST IS GETTING INCREDIBLY WEARING. Specialising doesn’t give you permission to be medically and professionally irresponsible and unethical. Happens every day. Mainly in urology, ophthalmology and gynaecology. Act like doctors and manage your patients please.

[drnostalgia]

As a med student, I think I saved a few lives by being this persistent. Specialists can sometimes (read: most of the time) have tunnel vision. They ignore major red flags for things outside their speciality. The eye sees, what the mind knows after all

[hamster]

the only heart that matters is inside you

[jfat]

The biggest learning point for me moving from my IM rotation to surgery was learning to not give a damn about anything else in the patient. Both liberating and terrifying.

[parkerjon]

Mr Jones is such a frequent flyer! Your hospital's 30 day readmission rate must be off the charts!

[MrMedmechanic]

If he would have tried to interpret an EKG his further rotation in GI would have been cancelled

[sudharmansitaraman]

Similarly, EKGs may be used as kryptonite for neurosurgeons. Nothing like a good cardiology consult to bring a neurosurgeon crashing back to earth.

[gutspraygore]

Not in medical, but I get that when training new people.
25 years of experience and a student of 4 years found something I didn't. I'm getting too old for this... two days later, the student doesn't know how to build the gimbal for your rig... ah, now this I know!

[sistakia]

In the ER yesterday listening to my Emergency Medicine doctor tell me how bad GI is in this state! (It's really hard to get a GI doctor!) He knows this is true because his own wife had a great GI doctor but the doctor had the audacity to retire! I completely understood his frustration! I said, "Not even death should keep great doctors from seeing patients! Come on!" We both had a great laugh and then shed a few tears when we were alone again! 😢

[patriciabennett]

Mr. Jones is getting his regular attention once again. That buzzer must be ringing constantly. Thank you so very much. Kindest regards.

[robertd]

Though it looks innocent enough, you've just witnessed how fights between specialties start.

[stephaniehowe]

Good for her.
I ended up in the hospital for a week because of preterm labor.
Irony 1 of the mitigating was did I have pneumonia.
1 Dr previously wouldnt treat it because I was pregnant.
❤

[moonsurge]

Confidence in the medical field is shattering 😅

[indianasb]

Yea, true that!!
Interpersonal skills definitely trumps the patient’s illness.

I presented with Guillain-Barré syndrome and 4 emergency emergency doctors, and 2 neurologist tried to talk me out of the reality that was going on, and would not treat my emergent condition. Now I am disabled because of their internal power struggle.

The medical games need to stop. Too many people have been hurt by their intention to ‘practice’ on us!

[alyssadepiro]

Oh how the body is interconnected, 😂 it almost like it is part if the same system (p.s. mouth included)😅

[nickbrennan]

I’ll be sure to summon you for every chest X-ray I attempt to read next year knowing full well you just passed your IM boards (if you’re still at Loyola!)

[mindassassin]

From an X-ray alone, all you can say for sure is that it's something. There's lots of things it could be.

[RetroGamerTy]

One of my rotations for my FNP was urology and I would point out the many issues that weren't urological and ask if we treat or refer them to family med. The attendings response every time: "If it isn't the renal pelvis to the urethra, not mine to touch." Very interesting but drove me mad when we're fixing a kidney stone with a SBP >180 😱😱😱😱