Experiences at Placements
Kind of wanted to do something similar to what Kay, Adam did in his book This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor and write a diary of interesting events and thoughts I’ve had related to medicine.
- Clinical placement years seem to go by fast
- Couple who do not want to have medication
- Increased Responsibility at GP placement
- Leaving home early
- Rural Week
- Use of mobile phones in trauma and orthopaedics
- Year 2 Shadowing Day 1
Thoughts
Medical school exams tests breadth not depth of knowledge
Black Wednesday Web-Link
Captured on: [2022-08-15 Mon 19:52], from My First Week as a Doctor (what it’s really like) - YouTube
August 3rd every year, where new junior doctors start in the hospital in the UK. Kay, Adam 2017 says that it is proven that their is an increased rate of hospital mortality
Cadaver dissections make students lose humanity and respect
Cadevar dissection epitmozes, for many, the transformation of the somber, respectful student into the callous arrogant doctor (Kalanithi, Paul, 2016)
In anatomy lab, we objectified the dead, literally reducing them to organs, tissues, nerves, muscles. On that first day, you simply could not deny the humanity of the corpse. But by the time you’d skinned the limbs, sliced through inconvenient muscles, pulled out the lungs, cut open the heart, and removed a lobe of the liver, it was hard to recognize this pile of tissue as human. Anatomy lab, in the end, becomes less a violation of the sacred and more something that interferes with happy hour, and that realization discomfits. In our rare reflective moments, we were all silently apologizing to our cadavers, not because we sensed the transgression but because we did not. (Kalanithi, Paul, 2016).
Personally I didn’t feel this way. I found it moreso startling to see dead cadevars, but perhaps having never dissected one from beginning to end, the experience I had is not at all comparable.
References
Kalanithi, Paul (2016). When Breath Becomes Air, Random House.
Kay, Adam (2017). This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, Picador.