In and around the hospital one has to be very careful with what one says... I've learnt this the hard way quite a few times, much to my embarrassment.
The first instance happened while we were on call during our Internal Medicine block. It was a very long day filled with tutorials and seeing many, many patients (it was Bara after all). I was walking around looking for one of my colleagues but it seemed that everyone was with a patient. I very politely pulled back the curtain and, in a very nice way, said "Excuse me, sir, I just need to speak with my colleague for a second". At that moment the patient, their family and my colleague gave me very strange looks. I ignored this and asked my colleague what I needed to know and, again, politely said to the patient "Thank you very much, sir".
It was then that the patient looked me in the eyes and very calmly stated "I am a woman". I was standing there in extreme embarrassment and put my foot in my mouth (even more so) by saying "I'm so terribly sorry, sir"! Seriously? Sigh... So just remember, don't always assume a beard means that the patient is a man... (Google hirsutism...)
I have a very tight-knit group of friends and we, as many others, have some inside jokes. Another interesting factoid is that I am not ghetto in the least. I'm sure you just gasped at that fact, but alas, it is true. So to up my street cred (did I use that phrase correctly?) I often, albeit sarcastically, add some ghettoness to my day (much to the dismay of my friends). This brings us to the second incident. It again happened during Internal Medicine at Bara. In GEMP I you will be taught how to examine the Respiratory system. When palpating the chest wall you can elicit a change in tactile fremitus (that simply means that you can feel a change in vibration over areas of the lung in which there is pathology like, say, pneumonia) by asking the patient to say "99" while feeling over different areas of the chest wall.
There was a patient with great signs of pneumonia and we all had a shot at eliciting these. After I examined the patient I, without really thinking, said (loud enough for the professor to hear me, sigh...) that the patient has 99 problems - and pneumonia is one. Why... Why oh why could I not just have kept my mouth shut. Everyone laughed, including the professor and the patient.
Oh, and when you do a procedure on a patient, don't ever say "Wow, not too bad for my first time!"... The patient will look at you in horror, and the intern will probably just walk away very quickly.
I share my embarrassing stories with you so that you don't make the same mistakes. And if you are going to make them, just smile, wave and swiftly walk away never to return to the scene again. The above mentioned didn't do any harm, but please do be careful with what you say in front of patients.
When you hear your very first pan systolic murmur don't show your excitement there and then. Yes, it's a great sign for you to learn from, but it's scary for the patient sitting there. Be tactful and respectful towards all your patients, always. Watch what you say and how you say it. Being in hospital is terrifying without the need for medical students discussing the poor prognosis of a disease...
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