Is your Prescription (Rx) Computerized?
With the license to practice medicine comes the responsibility of communicating directions (medical orders) to the appropriate health professionals who participate in the care of a patient. These include but are not limited to other physicians, nurses, midwives, physical & occupational therapists, and pharmacists. In outpatient or office clinic practice, the pharmacist (or pharmacy assistant, [...]
Dermassage
This morning I was posted at the PGH Outpatient Department’s Section of Dermatology.
From a medical intern’s standpoint, interviewing and examining patients with skin diseases is like a highly intellectual game of show-and-tell: the patient shows you what’s on his/her skin, you tell the resident what the patient has.
It would not be worth blogging a daily [...]
Doctor, Doctor I am Sick…
My first day as a medical intern was overrated. Too much hype. It’s either that, or it’s my so-called “benign powers” at work.
There was this plump, pregnant cat lounging around the intern’s area (more of an intern’s window with a view of lush green vegetation in the form of mango tree branches). The way she [...]
