Family Medicine: Ear Pain

Oops, forgot to blog. Yesterday morning we had a lecture about Early Childhood Intervention (ECI), and somewhere in the middle of the lecture, Mani (who was sitting next to me) got up and left the room with his phone. At first I thought he got an important phone call, but about 5-10 minutes later he came back carrying food from the cafeteria in his arms. He left a lecture to get a freaking snack? Maybe others didn't care what he did, but personally I thought he was being disrespectful. I mean, even I waited until after class ended to give Elizabeth some Hi-Chews I bought from the HK Market over the weekend.

We're moving to a new clinic! For the rest of the week, the entire office and staff would be relocating down the block to a brand new building. For some reason, it was painful ear day among the pediatric patients; poor Lupe had to do an ear lavage on two young kids (ages 1 and 2) and it was not fun for her or the kid. The kids, of course, were too young to understand what was going on and screamed bloody murder during the lavage. Not to mention they fought back and needed someone else other than their moms to hold them down. Lupe shared a story of how Dr. RR had to hold down a 7-year-old during an ear lavage b/c she kept trying to run away. See, if I tried to do that at age 7, my parents would have punished me as soon as I left the doctors' office for bad behavior. *sigh* Kids these days. When we had a third patient come in with an otitis externa, Dr. RR called Lupe to the room and she was like, "You're kidding!" when she learned it was another ear infection. Fortunately this third kid didn't need a lavage.