Know the human being behind the diagosis
When I was a resident in radiation oncology, I thought I already knew a lot about medicine. After all, I had just completed an internal medicine residency, and had taken and passed my boards. Needless to say, I was more than a little bit irritated the first time a patient “coded” in the radiation therapy department and I was shoved out of the way by the intern on the code team. After all, he was an internal medicine intern at the World’s Greatest Hospital, and I was a lowly radiation oncology resident. My protestations of “I can handle this!” were lost in the general hubbub of excitement and confusion surrounding a cardiac arrest. The patient survived, despite my bruised ego.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: Family Physicians Tags: Physician Cancer Residency Source Type: blogs
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