Comments on: The Art of History http://doctor007.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/the-art-of-history/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:32:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: doctor007 http://doctor007.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/the-art-of-history/#comment-1041 doctor007 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:11:24 +0000 http://doctor007.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-1041 Hey PKay, thanks for your comments, it's much appreciated. Keep checking back -there's always more! Hey PKay, thanks for your comments, it’s much appreciated. Keep checking back -there’s always more!

]]> By: pKay http://doctor007.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/the-art-of-history/#comment-1040 pKay Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:11:10 +0000 http://doctor007.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-1040 Hey man, just browsing through a few med related blogs (got a journal to read but procrastinating is so much more fun!) It was great reading quite a number of your inspirational blogs posts! Keep up the great work and hope to see more in the future!! All the best in medschool dude. Cheers! Hey man, just browsing through a few med related blogs (got a journal to read but procrastinating is so much more fun!)

It was great reading quite a number of your inspirational blogs posts! Keep up the great work and hope to see more in the future!!

All the best in medschool dude.
Cheers!

]]> By: doctor007 http://doctor007.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/the-art-of-history/#comment-1039 doctor007 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:36:13 +0000 http://doctor007.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-1039 Alison, I say this with love - but you would be a nightmare for a fresh medical student! Such a varied and convoluted medical history... Futuredoc, I totally agree. Strangely, this is what we have been taught. We're not allowed to ask non-medication allergies, and we're not allowed to say "NIL known" - we have to simply say "NIL". Of course, you pick and choose what you take with you from a lesson, and you can be sure I won't be taking those two. Alison, I say this with love – but you would be a nightmare for a fresh medical student! Such a varied and convoluted medical history…

Futuredoc, I totally agree. Strangely, this is what we have been taught. We’re not allowed to ask non-medication allergies, and we’re not allowed to say “NIL known” – we have to simply say “NIL”.

Of course, you pick and choose what you take with you from a lesson, and you can be sure I won’t be taking those two.

]]> By: Futuredoc http://doctor007.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/the-art-of-history/#comment-1037 Futuredoc Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:08:43 +0000 http://doctor007.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-1037 I'm wearing my analytical hat for a moment and so I thought I would throw this one in re: the allergies. Many people suffer allergies in response to eggs/nuts/fish/gluten, etc. Others suffer allergies in response to penicilin, etc. Yet if medical based questioning of allergies is confined to the medication segment of our lives and we neglect to mention to the Doc our life threatening immediate anaphylactic response to eggs or gluten or whatever he or she may go ahead and prescribe antibiotic therapy that contains said allergins as filler... I’m wearing my analytical hat for a moment and so I thought I would throw this one in re: the allergies.

Many people suffer allergies in response to eggs/nuts/fish/gluten, etc. Others suffer allergies in response to penicilin, etc.

Yet if medical based questioning of allergies is confined to the medication segment of our lives and we neglect to mention to the Doc our life threatening immediate anaphylactic response to eggs or gluten or whatever he or she may go ahead and prescribe antibiotic therapy that contains said allergins as filler…

]]> By: AlisonH http://doctor007.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/the-art-of-history/#comment-1035 AlisonH Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:03:07 +0000 http://doctor007.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-1035 Oh, and, NSAID-induced deafness. Oh, and, NSAID-induced deafness.

]]> By: AlisonH http://doctor007.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/the-art-of-history/#comment-1034 AlisonH Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:57:09 +0000 http://doctor007.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-1034 Heh. I would love to have one of your professors sic me on you newbies. I'm not even a zebra, I'm a vicuna. A cheerful vicuna, definitely! But man oh man does it take way too long with a doctor that doesn't know me to walk through the basic history, and then I have to deal with them trying to deal with it all, systemic lupus after Crohn's after brainstem damage after vision effects after asthma. One put down his pencil, looked me in the eye, and said in just the right tone--no ohmygoshhowcanshehandlethis!!!, just, well, okay, wow, and said quietly, "You have a lot on your plate." (Medically speaking.) Yes, I do, and that reaction was perfect. No pity, no overwhelmedness, just plain understanding in a way that a non-doctor could not have offered me. I treasure that memory. He was willing to be there for me from that moment no matter what, stranger though he was, and I knew it. Heh. I would love to have one of your professors sic me on you newbies. I’m not even a zebra, I’m a vicuna. A cheerful vicuna, definitely! But man oh man does it take way too long with a doctor that doesn’t know me to walk through the basic history, and then I have to deal with them trying to deal with it all, systemic lupus after Crohn’s after brainstem damage after vision effects after asthma. One put down his pencil, looked me in the eye, and said in just the right tone–no ohmygoshhowcanshehandlethis!!!, just, well, okay, wow, and said quietly, “You have a lot on your plate.” (Medically speaking.)

Yes, I do, and that reaction was perfect. No pity, no overwhelmedness, just plain understanding in a way that a non-doctor could not have offered me. I treasure that memory. He was willing to be there for me from that moment no matter what, stranger though he was, and I knew it.

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