PA Boards 11: What's the point of it all?
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Why do we put in countless hours and go through so many sleepless nights?
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everybody and welcome to episode number 11 of the Physician |
| 0:05.0 | assistant boards dot-com podcast I want to do things a little bit differently today. |
| 0:10.0 | I want to talk about what's the point why the hours of studying why the lack of sleep |
| 0:18.8 | what's the point what is the light at the end of the road? |
| 0:28.8 | I know normally we go over certain disease processes and how they present how to diagnose how to treat |
| 0:31.7 | Why are we losing sleep? Why are we reading so many textbooks why are we in the classroom eight hours a day |
| 0:37.7 | with ten minute breaks an hour lunch it's a full-time job And even after this full-time job of 9-to-5 in the classroom, you go |
| 0:46.8 | home and you read more, and you learn more, and you study more. But what's the point? Why are we doing all this? |
| 0:54.0 | Well, let's take a step back. So right now, let's just say you are in clinical rotations, |
| 1:01.0 | and if you're not, you will be. Now, when you're in clinical rotations and if you're not you will be now when you're in |
| 1:04.3 | clinical rotations the the way things are expected to go you're expected to go in |
| 1:10.7 | you see the patient you get a patient, you get a good history, you get a good physical, and after you do all of that, which at first might take a while, but believe me it gets easier with time. You formulate your own differential diagnosis. |
| 1:26.0 | And from that differential, you pick up what's most likely. |
| 1:30.0 | And from there you order labs, you order tests, and you narrow it down to a few diagnoses. |
| 1:38.0 | And you know, you know. |
| 1:40.0 | Now, after you do all of that work, you go and present to your preceptor. |
| 1:45.0 | Now the preceptor knows you honestly have no idea what you're doing. |
| 1:50.0 | So they're going to go in, they're going to see the patient, they're going to do an exam, |
| 1:53.2 | they're going to get a good history, and often more times than not, they're going to get something |
| 1:58.6 | that you didn't. |
| 1:59.8 | And to make things even worse, the patient is going to make you look bad, and they're going to make you make things even worse the patient is going to make you look bad and |
| 2:04.3 | they're going to make you look bad a lot of the times it's funny you go in you |
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