So family med this time is without residents, its just me and the doc, which is totally different. I have a lot more responsibility. I basically get to be the doc for the first fifteen minutes with each patient. I have to recommend a plan and have differentials. And its way harder than I thought. I feel like i'm constantly stumbling around.
The doc is female and about 36 or so. She's only 7 years out of residency and basically super chill. I like her because she often forces me to make a decision which is good, but she also doesn't care all that much about times and whatnot. I do stuff to help like vaccinations and ear wax removal (yay...). She is in a practice with 3 other docs and their practice is amazingly functional. Not to mention, that they have drug reps come give us lunch everyday but wednesdays. And i don't find them to be as pushy as everyone says. Most of the time we don't even talk about the drug they're representing.
By the end of the week, I started getting things right. And again I end up with that feeling-- i like family medicine. But the thing is, I can't give up my ER dreams. So I started looking into ER/FM dual residencies. Decided against it because they seem to be more research based (i want to do clinical medicine not lab medicine). But I have to say Family med is now my second choice, if i couldn't pick ER.
Currently, there is immense pressure right about for getting audition rotations, it seems everything is filling up. And I'm kinda freakin out a bit.
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