Family Medicine: Back to the clinic

I was welcomed back to the clinic today by staff who had noticed my absence (wow, who knew?) and immediately got back into the swing of seeing patients. Dr. RR asked me to tell him about drugs for diabetes (my assignment for the week), and to my credit I knew all the classes and certain characteristics off the top of my head. With spring break in the air, a lot of kids came to the clinic today. One was a little seven-year-old girl with a bad case of anxiety (shortness of breath at rest, when her mind isn't preoccupied with other things) because she keeps thinking she's going to die. That's not something you can easily get rid of, so she'll be seeing a behavior therapist or something like it. One teenager had a boil near his butt, so Dr. RR drained it with a syringe (as opposed to the usual I&D). It really was nasty-looking; pus mixed with blood created a dark foamy mess, and it smelled awful. One LVN who went to the room later commented that it smelled like he hadn't wiped his butt all day. Another toddler was heard running down the hall screaming b/c her mom had told her she was going to get a shot today, and she screamed every time someone entered the room thinking she was going to get that shot. Note to future pediatricians: tell moms not to tell their toddler children that they'll be getting a shot; it'd make everyone's day (especially the LVN's, since she has to actually draw the blood) a lot easier.