PULSE, the British General Practitioner website has an amusing article by Dr. Zoe Norris, titled “Life is the best education for a GP”. I agree wholeheartedly.
Some examples:
1) Sit up all night with a child who has acute otitis media until their ear drum perforates.
2) Have at least two acute admissions: one that turns out to be nothing (trapped wind is a good one), and one that results in a hospital stay of at least 48 hours.
3) Try one dose of everything you prescribe.
4) Have at least one unpleasant examination.
5) Breastfeed. And bottle feed. Preferably with a normal baby who doesn’t know how to do either, while you are horribly sleep deprived.
6) Take a course of antibiotics without missing a dose. You can’t, can you?
7) Have headlice. And scabies. Then try to treat them.
8) Have constipation. And piles. Check what you are prescribing actually works – your patients will love you forever.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/dr-zoe-norris/life-is-the-best-education-for-a-gp/20035263.article
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