Hurdles in Family Medicine
As time goes by, people learned to appreciate Family Medicine specialty more and more. Now with the advent of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), everybody wants people to stay in the outpatient...
View ArticleHarms of Antibiotics
One of my patient’s mom asked me. “My child is having a sore throat. Would you not give him antibiotics?” I am presently doing an infectious disease elective with Dr. Banks. I have seen lots of people...
View ArticleDifferent Learning Styles
As a third year resident, you still see different academic styles among different staffs. Some would treat the patient this way, and others will treat them another way. As residents, you have to get...
View ArticleLessons Learned in In patient
Finally done with my in patient rotation. If you will ask a family medicine resident in our program, you will probably hear that it is the hardest rotation. If not the second hardest. Even though how...
View ArticleCPC
I saw an interesting case in a dermatology clinic. A patient came in with rough, sand paper like feeling on the back of the arm and in other parts of the body. We said it is like keratosis pilaris,...
View ArticleGaining Patients Trust
A family physicians strong suit is that they are the ones whom patients develop rapport the most. I would say, we are specialist in this area. We are specialist in giving patient care. That is a very...
View ArticleIndividualizing Elderly Patients Needs
We have plenty of elderly patients, and one of the hardest things is to always remember that they are elderly persons, and we do not have to be so aggressive with them. This is what Dr. Ferguson told...
View ArticleBlood Pressure Medicines and the Fertile Female
I cannot stress the importance of managing our patients as a person, and not textbook. JNC 7 would say that we start people on hydrochlorothiazide. But if you see a fertile female come here and is on...
View ArticleKeeping Yourself Updated
As physicians, we need to keep ourselves updated as to what is new in medicine. As students, we have our medical books. As residents, we learn through our rotations and through internet websites from...
View ArticleWrapping Up
The residency program at Indiana University was truly a great blessing for me. This is where I became a great doctor that I am now. We have great residents, faculty, nursing and front office staff. We...
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