What's going on guys and welcome to episode number three of this Q&A here that we've been going and doing now for the past couple days today we're going to be answering a question from Mariah. I think I spelled your name correctly. If I didn't, please send me an email let me know. But this question is from Mariah and this is about more so

knowing how much to ask a patient. So I'm going to get to her question and then we'll dive right into it.

So, Mariah says, hey Andrew, glad you made your website and included this option to ask a question.

And so if you haven't already known, the website is physician-assistanceboards.com.

You can ask your question. There's a button. and little form pops up and you can send me your questions if that's something that you wish to do.

So she says, glad you made your website and included this option to ask a question.

I'm in my second semester and I'm struggling with the physical diagnosis class.

Especially when sent to the hospital to interview a patient,

I spent so much time talking to the patient

and then I have to ask them all of it,

even if it's irrelevant. Let's say they are in their for nausea and I have

to do an eye exam. My point is, what are the most important things that have to be covered for sure?

Like blood pressure, fever, heart rate, what else? I have about an hour with each

patient, but as you can imagine, they're in the hospital for a reason and would rather not be

asked or checked the same thing over again once it was done by the actual medical team.

So I think there's two parts to this question.

Part number one is is the fear of a of your

appearance right the fear of what you think the patient is perceiving you to be.

I think that's number one.

Number two is the simple lack of knowledge

and that's going to come with time.

So a couple of things here. Don't worry about what the patient thinks of you.

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