Falling in love...

Last Friday was the end... of the best rotation ever, I am sure of it. It was just perfect!

I loved every minutes of it, every patient and everything. I love my first week in the hospital, taking care of patients in that setting, even if it meant working during weekend, even during my birthday. I learned a lot. Really, I have to say that, I felt at home, exactly where I should be. I had fun with the colleagues, I cared about the patients and I feel the patients really liked me. I was sad when my week ended, because I was loving it so much...

But then, I went to the clinic and it was just perfect too! I felt right at home there too. I really appreciate the feeling of being responsible for the whole situation (not that I was, per se, but that we are addressing all the issues). I did a happy mix of follow-ups, new consults and emergency clinic, with 4 differents physicians. It was very interesting to see how each physician choose different patients. Dr. X's patients are more anxious type, while Dr. Y's are multi-morbid and much more sicker... Dr. Z has a very close relationship with her patients and I had to work harder to win them and establish a physician-patient relationship, but I did and she was impressed! Few patients told me I will be a good doctor, and I have to say that is our paycheck right there. And I even diagnosed an atrial fibrillation in a patient that was there for something else completely... I might have save is life (or not :-) ), and Dr. Y said that if I hadn't find it, he would't have. Very gratifying.

The only negative point about it... it was too short!

And now, anesthesiology and chronic pain for the next four weeks... It is going too fast and switching hospital and boss and specialty every 4 weeks is hard...Once you start feeling a little bit competent, and feel you can make this diagnosis, then everything change and you become incompetent again...