tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21120657.post115878796150306063..comments2023-09-27T10:27:04.724+00:00Comments on being enough...: Holiday post with extra rant...Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01947936309477421694noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21120657.post-1158898872694128492006-09-22T04:21:00.000+00:002006-09-22T04:21:00.000+00:00Nice rant. I agree that many people are happy to t...Nice rant. <BR/><BR/>I agree that many people are happy to talk to medical students because they want more people to become doctors. I think, however, that it is easy to forget how opaque the whole medical system can be to someone who isn't in it. I don't know that I am clear yet on what all the different titles mean, better yet throwing in not-very-descriptive terms like 'young doctor' (especially since I am not very young, I might even be older than the preceptor I had today), 'new doctor' (what I was called today) or others. <BR/><BR/>On my part I am going to commit myself to being as open and transparent to the patients as possible, even if the training doctors aren't.med neophytehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351330623540658913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21120657.post-1158846570302216302006-09-21T13:49:00.001+00:002006-09-21T13:49:00.001+00:00sorry, I wrote a novel ;)sorry, I wrote a novel ;)Marysienkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185620350459144898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21120657.post-1158846555070785992006-09-21T13:49:00.000+00:002006-09-21T13:49:00.000+00:00In the ER this summer, I was constantly presented ...In the ER this summer, I was constantly presented as a "young doctor", which bugged me a lot at first. When I was seeing patients alone, I presented myself as a medical student and made sure to say the doctor would follow soon, and of course, I asked if it were ok for them. I have to say that since I was not in a teaching hospital, ppl were generally happily surprised to see a medstudent there, especially since I was from the town ("that's very good, I hope you want to come back here, we need doctors!").<BR/><BR/>However, I can tell you from my experience, how I hate teaching hospitals because there's an average of 5.6 people (residents, students, doctors. That's w/o the nurses and student nurses) coming to see you like everyday! I really hate it, and I know many people who do as well. But to be honest, in the heads of people, they are all the same, generally. As soon as you enter medschool, people think you know everything in the medical field. Remember your uncles and friends who kept asking you questions during Christmas of your first year? Imagine when you're in a hospital wearing a stethoscope...<BR/><BR/>I understand your point though. When I was presented as a young doctor, some people asked me what year I was in, how many I had left and such. They didn't make a big deal out of the terminology used by the "real" doctor, actually I think many of them didn't even notice it. By the end of the week, I wouldn't notice it myself how I was presented. I think you just have to be honest with the patient, if he asked a question I didn't know/wasn't allowed to answer, I'd just tell them I'm a medstudent and I'm not allowed/can't answer. It was always fine. We have a lot to worry about, and this I got over.Marysienkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185620350459144898noreply@blogger.com