DISQUS

A Happy Hospitalist: http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/2008/06/fleas-to-rescue.html

  • Nurse K · 1 year ago
    Nice post, dude. Learn 19 new things everyday. Not that it's my job to come up with diagnoses, but whatever.

    R/T #11, my mom has "autoimmune hepatitis". Don't let normal housewives with no risk factors die of "really aggressive Hep C". My mom was comatose before they bothered to look for that, but that was 20 years ago.

  • Ken Jr. · 1 year ago
    I hope you don't mind but I copied your rules and shared them with a couple med school buddies. Don't know if any of us plan to be internists yet but always plan for the unexpected I say
  • ck · 1 year ago
    #20: Know your limitations. If you don't know your limitations, you shouldn't be doing this.

    Probably the most important. This should be tattooed on some people's foreheads haha.

  • Doctor David · 1 year ago
    Was coming to leave exactly the same comment as CK. #20 is your most important. The good docs know their limitations. The dangerous ones do not.

    Awesome post!

  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    3 more I learned in my IM residency last millenium:

    21. If you're not sure if the pt needs an LP, then the pt needs an LP.

    22. If you're not sure if you need a consult, the pt needs the consult.

    23. At least once a day one very smart person will tell you to do something stupid. Part of your job is to not listen to them.





  • Frank Drackman · 1 year ago
    Drackmans Postulates of Medicine

    #1 If it hurts, X-ray it.

  • E · 1 year ago
    i just finished my internal medicine residency, and i'd have to say i agree 100%. great post.
  • lost intern · 6 months ago
    Rule #2 is to look for the globulin gap, but I'm having a hard time finding a good differential for an elevated gap. I know the typicals (hiv, hcv, multiple myeloma), but what else?