[Image taken from http://www.openlearn.open.ac.uk/]Familiar, fellow medics?
This is how a (public/teaching hospital) ward round looks like on a typical weekday - a consultant, at least one fellow doctor (be it a senior or junior medical officer), a nurse or two sometimes, AND a group of 4th-6th YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS.
Now I do not have anything against ward rounds - in fact, I find them really interesting.... nothing beats the experience of observing clinical presentations before one's eyes.
However, there were times when I wonder - if the patients are actually comfortable with....having so many people surrounding them at one sitting.
If I were to be suddenly sick *TOUCH WOOD!*, and ended up in a public hospital, I'd be just like that patient depicted in the above picture - uncomfortable, anxious, fearful.
How would you respond, if you were in the patient's shoes?
Labels: Medicine/Hospitals/Medics
