I'm bored, so I felt like making a random post. So I figured I'd say that I love my orthopedist. I can't say much about his surgical skills, but as an office visit, he's great. I had to see him today for a 2 week follow up after I hurt my knee. He remembered (or more likely wrote it in my chart) that I'm in my 3rd year of med school, and that I had my medicine shelf exam, and start surgery this week. He comes in and asks me right away if I took the exam yet (I did, this morning), and if I'm looking forward to starting my surgery rotation (not really, we're on call every 3 days).
Then we chit chatted for a little bit about the medicine shelf exam, he sympathized with my crazed look, said it was the hardest exam of 3rd year. Then when he read the radiologist report of my MRI, he said he didn't seem to agree with it because my clinical exam suggests something much different. So he had the nurse get the CD of my MRI and looked at it himself, said he disagrees with the radiologist. And he talks to me like a regular person, not some sort of idiot. I consider myself to be fairly educated, so I always hate when my doctors "dumb down" certain things. I'm not that type of person that needs that, and he gets it. He also doesn't try to push me into things that just aren't possible for me. He said he would recommend to most people to go to PT, but he knows that for me, it's not going to be possible because I'm going on surgery. So he doesn't just say "Too bad, that's my plan, if you don't follow it, you're on your own", but instead gives me alternatives.
Then, even though he recommends follow up, he said if I can't make it, but I feel fine, and my knee isn't bothering me, then I'll probably be OK without one. Plus, he's not that hard to look at either
Anyway, that's my "I'm bored and rambling" post. Back to your regularly scheduled lives.
Then we chit chatted for a little bit about the medicine shelf exam, he sympathized with my crazed look, said it was the hardest exam of 3rd year. Then when he read the radiologist report of my MRI, he said he didn't seem to agree with it because my clinical exam suggests something much different. So he had the nurse get the CD of my MRI and looked at it himself, said he disagrees with the radiologist. And he talks to me like a regular person, not some sort of idiot. I consider myself to be fairly educated, so I always hate when my doctors "dumb down" certain things. I'm not that type of person that needs that, and he gets it. He also doesn't try to push me into things that just aren't possible for me. He said he would recommend to most people to go to PT, but he knows that for me, it's not going to be possible because I'm going on surgery. So he doesn't just say "Too bad, that's my plan, if you don't follow it, you're on your own", but instead gives me alternatives.
Then, even though he recommends follow up, he said if I can't make it, but I feel fine, and my knee isn't bothering me, then I'll probably be OK without one. Plus, he's not that hard to look at either
Anyway, that's my "I'm bored and rambling" post. Back to your regularly scheduled lives.
