Day 38:
Today was a little bit of a bummer day at the hospital. The medical director told us yesterday that we should go to the lab both yesterday and today, but there really was not enough to do for two full days (let alone one full day) and we would have just been in the way. So we spent a good chunk of the morning waiting to ask the “sir” where we should go. We ended up in OPD again but with an internist. It was actually interesting because we went on rounds with this physician, watching him examine several patients with Dengue Fever (apparently there are multiple cases of this in Bangalore right now) and listening to him question a resident about the effects of diabetes. The physician also gave us a little lecture about how it’s necessary to do a thorough examination and history when you first meet a patient. I think he thought we were medical students because he even told us the best book to buy that would explain this! Unfortunately, though, the physician was done at RMH very early in the afternoon (he works at another hospital in the evening)…..so we spent a large chunk of the afternoon waiting once again to see the medical director about the rest of this week. Luckily he said we can be on the wards the rest of the week, so thankfully we won’t have to bug him anymore!
Today was a little bit of a bummer day at the hospital. The medical director told us yesterday that we should go to the lab both yesterday and today, but there really was not enough to do for two full days (let alone one full day) and we would have just been in the way. So we spent a good chunk of the morning waiting to ask the “sir” where we should go. We ended up in OPD again but with an internist. It was actually interesting because we went on rounds with this physician, watching him examine several patients with Dengue Fever (apparently there are multiple cases of this in Bangalore right now) and listening to him question a resident about the effects of diabetes. The physician also gave us a little lecture about how it’s necessary to do a thorough examination and history when you first meet a patient. I think he thought we were medical students because he even told us the best book to buy that would explain this! Unfortunately, though, the physician was done at RMH very early in the afternoon (he works at another hospital in the evening)…..so we spent a large chunk of the afternoon waiting once again to see the medical director about the rest of this week. Luckily he said we can be on the wards the rest of the week, so thankfully we won’t have to bug him anymore!
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