Wednesday 28 March 2007

Good News

I wrote recently about an elderly lady who I'd been to see, I suspected some sinister pathology and the GP referred her under the 2-week rule for urgent investigations. I followed her up today and was pleased to see that her tests had come back. Other than a bit of oesophagitis the tests were negative, oesophagitis doesn't really explain her symptoms but its a much better diagnosis than what it might have been. I was really pleased that she is ok.

It was my last day at my GP today and I'm sad to be leaving. I've learnt a lot. It was a great placement with a great GP. Much much much better than the previous placement which was nothing short of a disaster. Now I have to pick an 8 week community placement for my 5th and final year, unfortunately none of the good GPs I've been to seem to be offering placements. Tits.

In other good news - only 5 days left of obs and gynae!

2 comments:

The Angry Medic said...

I'm glad the lady turned out alright. That was a real Sherlock Holmes one, the way you describe it - elderly peopla can have just about anything, can't they...

In fact, everyone can have just about everything, now that I think about it.

Oh bugger me. I just woke up, so I'm doing a 'missbliss' and mumbling incoherently. Glad you're getting off the Vagina Squad in a couple days.

medstudentitis said...

Good work on following up! It's nice to have continuity of care sometimes...