Wellll, I had saw my first patient Monday but it feels like it was so long ago because of everything that has happened since! Tuesday we had our Blood and Lymphatics Final and then Tuesday afternoon we had OMM. Wednesday we started Neuro, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It is the hardest block we have our first year and it is gonna SUCK.
Back to Monday, I shadowed a 2nd year and saw 2 patients. One was a 24 year old female with a sore throat and another was an 18 year old Male who needed a physical exam to be able to play varsity tennis in his high school. In both cases, the 2nd year and I talked to the patient and got a good history and did the appropriate physical exam components to each. Then we went back and spoke with the resident about what we thought we should do, and then he came back to the exam room with us. It was a great experience and it made it even better knowing the resident was very approachable and easy to joke around with. We stayed from 5 to 9pm and then I went straight to a group study session to review all the things i had studied for the next day's exam. It was great/stressful. Great because I felt like a DOCTOR! Stressful because it made me realize how much i need to know and how much responsibility i am going to have in the near future on my 3rd and 4th year rotations. I laughed every now and again to myself because i couldn't help thinking 'what the hell am i doing here, they are really letting me do this? i feel like im still a child, how am i supposed to treat people when i feel like a kid?!' When i voiced this to the 2nd year i was following she laughed back and let me know not to worry, she still feels like that all the time.' I guess i will act like i am playing dress up :)
well we have an OMM exam this Monday so we will be practicing a ton for that as well as balancing neurology studying. Two more full weeks of school and 2 more exams before break...almost there. Oh and i almost forgot, the best part (*cough*sarcasm*cough*) is that we are back in the anatomy lab on our own time to do required anatomy learning of the brain. Remember all those cadavers we stared at all last semester? well, now we get to stare at their brains for a while. just we i thought it couldnt get any worse, i get to add formaldehyde back into my life. but hey, they are going to let me be a doctor so i will just keep playing along until one day i actually feel component enough to be one!
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