After reading and enjoying a classmate's Blog, I finally decided to write my own. Many thanks to Paul Kyser for his countless entertaining posts and inspiration to write this one. See his blog by clicking on the link to the left.
Hopefully this blog will be mildly amusing to those that know me; and a brief window into a slightly warped mind to those who may not.
Well here I am, beginning my 4th semester of medical school -the penultimate one here on the island of St. Maarten. Time sure has flown, it's been a year already! This semester's fare includes Medical Psychology, Pathology II, Pharmacology, and Medical Ethics. Today in Medical Psychology we had our weekly lab/workshop. This is where we role play the parts of physicians and patients and learn things such as empathy, non-verbal communication, open-ended questioning and facilitation . Oh yeah, apparently laughing at, yelling and poking with sharp IV needles are NOT the way you are supposed to deal with Psychiatric patients. I had previously trained under an alternative school of thought on this topic in my former life as an ER nurse and Paramedic. Mea maxima culpa.
No longer an intern (The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/6/13)
10 years ago
2 Comments:
haha. wow, dad. love the new blog. it's quite interesting
welcome aboard, and all that good stuff. your first two posts were very good as i'm sure all the others will be. writing about life on an island of lunatics and in a school full of science majors who've never been in the real world is sorta like shooting fish in a barrel. have fun.
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