Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Let the stress begin

“Have you taken the patient’s history?” asked the registrar

I nodded.

“Well, I think you’re ready for the real thing,” as he passed me another patient’s chart

“I want you to clerk this patient in,” he added.

My heart was doing jumping jacks.

Another milestone.

She was in for a right temporal artery biopsy, a relatively simple and low risk procedure.

And she was my first.

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