MomTFH, DO
"MomTFH" is a resident physician.
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Physicians
Being a single mother in medical school and residency isn't a piece of cake. But, being a single parent in this world isn't a piece of cake, either, and being a medical student and / or resident isn't a piece…
Being a single mother in medical school and residency isn’t a piece of cake. But, being a single parent in this world isn’t a piece of cake, either, and being a medical student and / or resident isn’t a piece of cake. Foregoing medical school isn’t necessarily the answer to any of that.
Here is some general advice I will share with parents, single or otherwise, who are facing decisions about …
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Advice for parents in medical school or residency
Physicians
I am on my last rotation for medical school. It is a “rural selective”, which is a required elective at a rural or underserved location. I am fulfilling it at a local community health center in the women’s health department.…
I am on my last rotation for medical school. It is a “rural selective”, which is a required elective at a rural or underserved location. I am fulfilling it at a local community health center in the women’s health department. Fun!
I am taking part in a day long orientation today. In one of the presentations, the speaker had a point on one of the slides about mandatory reporting, and included …
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Should every case of domestic violence be reported?
Physicians
I am doing a family practice rotation and trying to set up elective rotations and plan for applying to residency. I am also just busy and tired out in general. I can’t write about much of what I see day…
I am doing a family practice rotation and trying to set up elective rotations and plan for applying to residency. I am also just busy and tired out in general. I can’t write about much of what I see day to day without discussing my patients or my attending physicians and residents in a way that might be ethically questionable.
But, I do want to write about something that happened recently.
A …
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Fear of lawsuits affects breastfeeding advice
Patients
I am really enjoying my geriatrics rotation. Although my attending preceptor is primarily a geriatrician, and practices deep in the heart of retiree central in southeast Florida, he also sees some patients who are younger. I took a history on…
I am really enjoying my geriatrics rotation.
Although my attending preceptor is primarily a geriatrician, and practices deep in the heart of retiree central in southeast Florida, he also sees some patients who are younger. I took a history on a patient who was younger than me today, in her early thirties.
She started off complaining about insomnia and headaches, and then said …
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Bereavement related depression and consoling a new widow
Physicians
I recently finished my second month of internal medicine. I had a different attending physician for each month. It is interesting to see how two different attending physicians will approach similar conditions. There is a lot of flexibility in the…
I recently finished my second month of internal medicine. I had a different attending physician for each month. It is interesting to see how two different attending physicians will approach similar conditions. There is a lot of flexibility in the standard of care. Neither of them is wrong by any stretch of the imagination. Just different.
It is also amazing how much of a difference a good, well informed resident can …
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How two different attending physicians approach similar conditions
Education
I recently finished my two months of surgery rotations. I am happy to say that I really enjoyed my surgery rotations. I thought I was going to be intimidated by the OR, but I found it fascinating. I am relieved,…
I recently finished my two months of surgery rotations.
I am happy to say that I really enjoyed my surgery rotations. I thought I was going to be intimidated by the OR, but I found it fascinating. I am relieved, since surgery is a big part of OB/GYN.
Here are a few things I learned on my surgery rotation:
- Scrub in before the surgeon but after the OR nurse.
- Before you scrub in, introduce
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Successful surgery rotation tips
Education
In our clinical years, our medical school has instituted a program in which we do learning modules along with our in hospital experience and didactics. I was happy to see a module on empathy for my second month of surgery.…
In our clinical years, our medical school has instituted a program in which we do learning modules along with our in hospital experience and didactics.
I was happy to see a module on empathy for my second month of surgery. The last question to be answered in this module was: “Although the studies on empathy are very consistent other authors have indicated that medical students are really not losing cognitive empathy, …
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Empathy cannot be simply turned on and off
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