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-Praying with one of my patients, who asked me what he needed to do to be saved. Seriously, when does that happen? We had a sweet conversation and I was so excited to get to pray with this new brother.
-Watching the most dramatic recovery of any patient I had seen on the Wishard psychiatry ward. I was amazed at how effective an antipsychotic and stable environment could be for a patient struggling with psychotic symptoms. She was literally a new woman after recovering over the weekend.
-Dinner with my cousin, Kristen. It is always a treat when she makes a visit from TN!
-School pictures...boy, it had been a while since the last photo shoot. It always slays me when they ask you to "shift your legs to the right, turn your body to the left, move your head to the right, put your chin down, now smile...naturally. Right.
-Finishing my psych exam today, which marked being 2/3 of the way through the 3rd year!
Lows:
-Getting kicked out of an interview with a delusional patient on the unit, who thought I was making faces at her. Glaring, she demanded, "Why do you keep giving me those dirty looks? If you have something to ask me, then ask." With her powerful 300-something-lb trunk, she leaned towards me and with steely eyes, told me to get out of the interview room. Knowing well that she could and would physically remove me if I did not, I left obediently. I was told by the other student on the team that after I left she called me a "blue-eyed devil". It has a nice ring, no?
-Putting my foot in my mouth in conversation with a VA nurse:
VA Nurse: (flatly as I approached the nursing station): Yes?
Me: Yeah, I am a med student, here to observe ECT today.
VA Nurse: You're too young.
Me: (weak laugh)
VA Nurse: Ha...I got that all the time when I was younger.
Me: Oh...you used to look young?
Smooth...
4 comments:
Your last low is the best laugh I've had all week! It might do you good to keep a filter between your brain and mouth. :-)
That reminds me of when I got called out in front of my entire Spanish class at Butler for giving the professor dirty looks. I don't mean to wear my emotions on my face... I can't help it! :)
You know I became convinced while on my psych rotation that there is definitely a spiritual component to some psychiatric illness. I think I was one of the most abused med students at least verbally. I often pondered if the patient could sense I was Christian and was responding to that. Interestingly most of the patients were the nicest people when on meds and one lady was even a nun!
You know I became convinced while on my psych rotation that there is definitely a spiritual component to some psychiatric illness. I think I was one of the most abused med students at least verbally. I often pondered if the patient could sense I was Christian and was responding to that. Interestingly most of the patients were the nicest people when on meds and one lady was even a nun!
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