02/01/2024
"Metticci mano! 🖐🏼 From the first semiotics lesson at university to the last internship, almost all my professors have always repeated this phrase: the patient must be touched with hands. Maybe that's why I chose proximity medicine, in full contact with the patient. 🩺 But... how can I go beyond inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation? 🩻 How can I see beyond, and above all, how can I feel together with the patient, how can I have compassion?
🫀 Compassion: from Latin cm patior - I suffer with - and from Greek συμπἀθεια, sym patheia - "sympathy," experiencing emotions together... but the etymology I prefer is from ancient Hebrew, that is rehem/rahamîm, meaning "feeling in the viscera."
And I... how can I, in my physical examination, feel the viscera of a patient? The hand is no longer enough... so here comes ultrasound.
📡 I love ultrasound for the possibility of seeing where the eye doesn't reach, of feeling inside things, right into the viscera."
📝Shared by Ippocrate_md from Italy🥰
