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Based on my M3 rotation, the attending essentially sat in his office all day (couple hours) and just interviewed patients and based off that adjusted their meds. My whole inpatient rotation was just us interviewing patients and that's all our attendings ever did as well whether it be outpatient or inpatient. Not really sure what you're expecting?
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The one week I did it I played chess all week with my two assigned patients and on the first day one of them told me the devil was standing over my shoulder telling her to murder me and on the last day the other patient asked me if I had any cats because he likes burning cats.
I let them win at chess.
I let them win at chess.
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Dangers of psychiatry- resident stabbed
I know this probably gets over blown, but I admit, I always had a subconscious nervousness about patients before my Psych rotation. Although as we all learn, the average psych patient is not violent at all. You all probably heard of this recent incident...
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Penn Medicine doctor sues Pennsylvania Hospital after being stabbed by patient
Pennsylvania Hospital faces a lawsuit from a Penn Medicine doctor who alleges the hospital disregards the safety of its practicing physicians.
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I'll give you my M3 perspective until an actual attending comes in. It seemed to me they'd come in around 8-9 (we came in a bit before). I rotated in a Emergency Inpatient Psychiatry unit that was hooked up an ED in a city with some of the strongest EM programs and tons of trauma/crime per capita in the US. The security was pretty decent. The patients would basically be separated not by room but by curtain like many emergency departments/county hospitals. Some would be in chains and not all of them. The patients ranged from paranoid shizophrenics (one kept shouting "Awwwwwwwwk (bird noise) I am a paranoid SCHIZOPHRENIC" whereas others sat quietly and you'd come up and tal to them as if nothing was wrong.
Attendings would start rounding at around 9-10 and it would be a pretty open experience. As medical students, we got to hear a lot of interesting dialogue and the psychiatrist's usually took their time. There were some very ANGRY patients too. This one lady basically for no reason started hissing and spitting at my female colleague because she was "smiling" and told her that she was ugly and her glasses didn't help. There was a term called 52 where you'd have to chemically restrain/sedate rowdy patients.
Attendings would start rounding at around 9-10 and it would be a pretty open experience. As medical students, we got to hear a lot of interesting dialogue and the psychiatrist's usually took their time. There were some very ANGRY patients too. This one lady basically for no reason started hissing and spitting at my female colleague because she was "smiling" and told her that she was ugly and her glasses didn't help. There was a term called 52 where you'd have to chemically restrain/sedate rowdy patients.
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