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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I skinned a man. Strange as it sounds, it felt more natural than I expected. Fresh off winter break, we first-year medical students were slated for our first two days in the anatomy lab: Thursday would be orientation. Friday (gulp), dissecting a human body. The professor ran us through the ground rules—no music, no food, utmost respect for the cadavers. If we want extra study time, he assured us, the lab is open 24 hours a day. I can’t imagine any place I’d less like to be in the dead of night than in a room full of half-dissected bodies. We stood around in groups of four surrounding the tables where the cadavers lay—still zipped up in green shrouds of some sort of synthetic fabric—and talked with studied nonchalance about which of us want to be surgeons and whether our new Christmas sweaters would forever reek of formaldehyde. MORE: Reality Strikes: A Doctor-in-Training Encounters Her First Patient Inside a manila folder on our dissection table lay a printout containing the sparest biography of each body in the room: first name and cause of death. One of my lab partners opened ours and we scanned down the list to the highlighted row for Table 3. “So it’s a man,” she whispered. He had died of heart failure. Then the professor told us to unwrap our cadavers. I’m pretty sure he actually said “meet and greet.” Unzipping the body bag, I steeled myself. For what, I wasn’t exactly sure, but legends abound about med students passing out in anatomy lab, and our instructor had warned us that two or three students each year freak out. The professor walked up and down the rows of lab tables, checking in to see how we were doing. “You okay?” he asked. I nodded. And I was. This body didn’t look all that real. Except for a few black hairs sprouting here and there, the skin was so well-preserved it looked like leather, or maybe parchment. The cadaver was lying face down, and he looked slightly<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78861&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reality Strikes: A Doctor-In-Training Encounters Her First Patient</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a first-semester medical student feels a little like playing a doctor on TV. There are lines to memorize: we say “axillae” instead of “armpits” now, and “epistaxis” instead of “bloody nose.” There are props: the stethoscopes, engraved with our names, that we tote around but have yet to use to examine a patient. And of course, wardrobe: the short white coat that to me still feels a bit like a costume. Some of the first “patients” we see are, in fact, professional actors, trained to mimic the symptoms of a seizure disorder or the aftermath of a suicide attempt. And we do some acting of our own, particularly when patients know more about their symptoms than we have yet to learn: “My IgE is off the charts,” one man told me as I shadowed his doctor during his visit. I frowned and nodded, showing no sign that the clinical significance of this fact was a mystery to me. (I looked it up later.) So I was eager to move on to the real thing. I took a medical history recently for the first time&#8211;from a young Indian-American woman just a few years older than I am&#8211;and a real patient. But the fact that I was no longer playing a part didn&#8217;t hit me until later. “What brings you here today?” I asked. A painful lump in her armpit, she said. Two weeks earlier, the doctor had examined it and determined that it was probably nothing to worry about, but had asked her to return for followup. Running through a mnemonic in my head, I walked the woman through the major questions necessary to flesh out the chief complaint and history of present illness, the components our professors had tasked us with eliciting that week. (OPQRST, the memory trick for pain goes: Onset. Provocation/Palliation. Quality. Radiation. Severity/Symptoms. Time.) I didn’t interrupt the patient; I spent time with her; I even made her chuckle. I listened to what she said and wrote it down. Afterwards, my supervising doctor took over, asking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=72610&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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