Windows of the soul
They say that eyes are the windows into the soul. I wouldn't really know. Here's my week in Ophthamology:
Monday- STAT holiday, no school
Tuesday- orientation (for which no instructors showed up for), morning clinic in a neuro-ophthamology clinic (mostly MS patients), afternoon clinic cancelled
Wednesday-outpatient clinic in the morning working with residents, afternoon in surgery watching 4 cataract replacements and a lid lift (eye surgery is pretty cool but gives me the heebie-geebies!!!)
Thursday- sleep in, exam at 11am, afternoon spent in another clinic with an awesome teacher
Friday- all cancelled
I'm at home blogging, working on a paper some of my classmates and I are writing, and preparing to have friends over for drinks later this evening. Since I am looking towards family practice as a future career option, I really hope none of my patients have eye problems. I really don't think the 3 days of training I will have received in ophthamology will be enough...do you? I thought 5 days was pushing it, but come on!!!!
Here's a conversation I envision having in the future:
Patient: Doc, I'm having some trouble with my eyes
Me: What kind of trouble is that?
Patient: I can't see, everything's all blurry.
Me: Ah, crap. You better get them taken out then. They're no use to you now.
Wonder how that will go over?
Monday- STAT holiday, no school
Tuesday- orientation (for which no instructors showed up for), morning clinic in a neuro-ophthamology clinic (mostly MS patients), afternoon clinic cancelled
Wednesday-outpatient clinic in the morning working with residents, afternoon in surgery watching 4 cataract replacements and a lid lift (eye surgery is pretty cool but gives me the heebie-geebies!!!)
Thursday- sleep in, exam at 11am, afternoon spent in another clinic with an awesome teacher
Friday- all cancelled
I'm at home blogging, working on a paper some of my classmates and I are writing, and preparing to have friends over for drinks later this evening. Since I am looking towards family practice as a future career option, I really hope none of my patients have eye problems. I really don't think the 3 days of training I will have received in ophthamology will be enough...do you? I thought 5 days was pushing it, but come on!!!!
Here's a conversation I envision having in the future:
Patient: Doc, I'm having some trouble with my eyes
Me: What kind of trouble is that?
Patient: I can't see, everything's all blurry.
Me: Ah, crap. You better get them taken out then. They're no use to you now.
Wonder how that will go over?
posted by MSI (Med Student Intern) @ 1:50 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
Awesome. You can also suggest that it is all in their heads and they just need to try to focus a little better. Both of which are technically correct.
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