Today was a fairly short day; we saw our patients, attended Grand Rounds, and then rounded on them with Dr. B. When we had time to spare in the library, I chatted a bit with Patel about how he came to be a doctor. He said in India, there were only 1200 residency openings available throughout the whole country (all residencies, including IM, obgyn, etc), with placement based on scoring well on a national exam. Wow. Also today, Dr. B told Annie and me that our notes were excellent and that we were doing well. =) Positive reinforcement is a good thing. We never got that with Dr. M; as long as he didn't say anything negative about us, we assumed we were doing what he expected of us.
Today he and Chris had to do a rectal exam on a morbidly obese woman b/c a 3 cm mass was found in the wall of her rectum. Neither of them were able to palpate it; the mass was way too high. "This is internal medicine," said Patel. I hope not.
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