Sunday, July 15, 2012

Compliment or not?

Overheard at hospital:

Consulting Attending: "Wow, this is a fantastic H&P in the chart. This is really thorough. Did you write this?"

Resident: "Yep."

Consulting Attending: "Are you a medical student?"

5 comments:

  1. That's a diss....

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  2. Not a diss. I would think that when everything is fresh and new you're more likely to dot all your Is and cross your Ts. As you move on you start to take shortcuts.

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  3. Total compliment. I have never written the same level of detail in my h&ps since I graduated.

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  4. That Attending speaks the truth, the level of detail and energy that a med student puts into writing an H&P is much different than what an Intern or Resident has the time to do.

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