The final chapter in the life of a standardized patient....
Once we are trained in a scenario and given a new identity; we are called back again and again to share the symptoms with the med students. I do two gall bladder "encounters." For one I am Rosa Harrison and for the other one which eventually involves an hour-long physical, I am Jane Whitmore. For the palliative care described in the last blog, I am Mrs. Susan Bullard. Often I go there with a bad knee, and on those days I am Marie Sonderheim looking for a diagnosis of osteoarthritis! That one is an easy one!
So, my phone rings, and I hear, "Hey, Jane, this is Ann. (fill in the blank) is needed two weeks from now. Are you available?" If I can possibly work it in I go. Serving as a SP is very rewarding as well as fun!
By the way, I told them up front I would not succumb to the OB/GYN exams! One young med student asked me if my mother was still alive. I wanted to burst out laughing, but that would not have been within my character, so I merely said....no!
No idea where I will go with this next, but this has been my "ojt"-ing for sharing the interesting and fun things from Mackinac Island. I head that direction with stops along the way mid-June.
Jane, you didn't get asked the question I was asked at 50 -- and did laugh out loud. "Are you planning to have any more children?"
ReplyDeleteJane, when signing many forms prior to partial hysterectomy at age 64, I was presented with one stating I acknowledged that this procedure would prohibit any pregnancies in the future. I gave the nurse a blank stare. She smiled and said,"I know, I know. But we are required by law to have that acknowledgement signed." I could not keep a straight face the way you did.
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