re-thinking my interest in going into pediatrics....
I have been on wards for 3 days now and though the kids are freaking adorable, its not much interaction with them so much as their parents. FOr the past 2 days we have come in around 7:30 in the morning, written progress notes and seen our patients (about 2 each) and then we round with the attending from 8:30 or 9 until almost noon! It is very different from my last rotation. Most kids are admitted for fevers of unknown origin and then stay a couple days to get antibiotics. Maybe its the fact that their arent many patients that make it hard for me to imagine going into the field. Also, its not a lot of procedures or excitement...
This afternoon i went down to the pediatric clinic to write an H&P on a 19 month old girl who was having fevers, one of which was 105.5! I went in and talked to her and her mom but as soon as i started doing my physical exam she started wailing. Imagine a 19month old crying refusing for me to look at her ears while i am trying to stick a pointy object with a light into her eye to see how her ear drum looks. It was not easy and dare i say it, it was not pleasant. No joke, in the 10 minutes i spent trying to figure out how the hell to look inside this little girls mouth, ears, and nose, i decided i didnt want to do this for the rest of my life....i think i was patient that at least understand me and sit still.
But then later in the day when i went up to the ward where she had been admitted, i went in to check on her and when i said bye she said bye back and waved at me with two hands that each had examination gloves on her [the nurse gave them to her to play with and they were about 30x to big for her]. It was the most adorable thing i had seen. She wasnt screaming and she looked very cute. Maybe peds isnt that bad?
I have another 5 and a half weeks to decide. For now, I am going to read up on the 50 million things that can give babies/children fevers...
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