![]() ![]() Too low, I thought, that just did not seem right. When I went from patient to doctor, it was as if I completely forgot every step I had just seen my partner do. The first to use an our combination ophthalmo/otoscope, my partner learned the proper hand movements from our proctor and then casually put it into my nose. Step-by-step he followed the instructions, feeling for my thyroid, feeling for my lymph nodes (there are way too many places to find all of these and I swear I can only feel like 4 of them), sweeping my mouth and under my tongue for any abscesses or tumors (obviously, for the most part student patients represent “normal”, even though we have heard horror stories of things being found during these practices and during the radiology workshops we have in Anatomy), and watching the range of motion of my neck. However, good friends generally do not feel each other’s tongues or look at their nasal cavities … so after today, we knew we would enter a new realm of friendship. Lucky for me, my partner and I are good friends already. I quietly reminded him to wash his hands before he did anything to me and he hilariously listened to me ,”the patient,” as I helped happily guide him on his first examination. My partner graciously went first and following the outline we were given, he started by taking my pulse and then my blood pressure.
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