As a medical student, you will spend most of your time drinking from a firehose of knowledge, and when pimped there is a strong chance that you won’t know the answer. Your attendings were all once medical students, so they will understand the occasional lapse, but even so, they may get annoyed if the answer […]
Weekends in the Psych Ward
“Wha’cha watching?” Derek asked as he pulled a plastic chair away from the bare common room table in the locked adult psychiatric ward. A man who I’ll call Mark sat like he had melted into the recliner in the corner of the room. Hardly a muscle tensed, with his belly nudging out from under his […]
From the Clinic to the Wards: A Hospitalist Perspective
I’ve shifted from the clinic to the wards. For the next 5 months, I’m on multiple inpatient services–internal medicine, surgery, inpatient peds. I’m only a few weeks in and it’s already a very different world I’m living in. The 3-hour-long rounds, the pace of patient interactions, and the intensity of medical management. As an internist, […]
