Medicine

Today's my first day in the Medicine service. The Medicine department is huge here - there are at least 15 residents rotating in the medicine wards service at any given time with a daily total patient load that is way over the century mark.

It has been at least 2 years since my last medicine rotation in med school! It's a rude awakening of the reason I was drawn away from pursuing internal medicine - it's a service where discharging patients seems to be the main goal, rather than caring for them. At times, I feel that we are just patching patients' problems and send them out of the door as soon as they do a bit better. Let's see if my perception changes in the next 4 weeks.