01/12/2024
Recently I had a chat with a friend whom is also a parent of a medical student… this is what I shared with the parent..because this is what I believe..
The best teacher to us as medical students or those in medicine profession is our patients… There is no 1 patient who has the same presentation of an illness. All our bodies are different and we react differently to the illness and to treatment..
Getting the diagnosis or problems list is important because it helps us the focus on how to help/treat the patients… and 80% of the diagnosis comes from history taking, the other 20% from clinical signs and investigations.
The patients may come with a group of symptoms…they don’t have a label on their forehead- this is my diagnosis. So, we need to talk to the patients, understand the symptoms, the signs…and tie everything together..to get to the diagnosis. This reminds me of my primary school days, when I love reading Nancy Drew and Hardy boys series of solving mysteries… to me, practicing medicine is efficiently solving the patients’ health problem and return them to their loved ones. Hospital is not their home…
And now that I am in Reproductive Medicine, the task is to solve all those TTC with their reproductive issues… this is my passion now…
And also not forgetting….it is important to have humility, empathy, compassion, love and kindness n good communication with patients, apart from practicing good medicine…
Good medicine without the human touch , is not enough… ❤️❤️❤️