This past month, I was rotating through a primary care pediatrics clinic. This was my first “real” experience with primary care. While I did shadow a physician in community internal medicine as a first-year student, I didn’t yet have the clinical decision-making skills by which to critically evaluate my experience. And so, this month has been […]
Telling the Story
Inpatient internal medicine got off to a sort of rough start. Admittedly, the first few days that I work in a new place tend to be more difficult and less productive than I’d prefer. This has held true for just about every rotation I’ve had so far. It’s a bit unreasonable to expect that you […]
See One, Do One, Teach One
Last week in the pulmonology clinic, one of the physicians called out to me down the hallway. He said he needed his annual PPD placed and I was going to be the one to do it. So he gathered the supplies – a vial of tuberculin and two needles – and we headed into an […]
