Wow, that really had me going. I need to start writing shorter posts. Here's one:
I'm probably taking my OB/GYN rotation in a peripheral hospital instead of our uni hospital. Less zebras*, yes, but also A LOT less students and therefore more opportunity for me to learn what really needs to be learned. The non-zebras of GYN and how to deliver a baby.
* a zebra: Imagine a herd of horses. A zebra sticks out, yes? But it is also very uncommon. Just like any of the exceedingly rare diseases that any med student knows from path class and thinks of way before they think of the more prevalent ones. Think "a-tumor-at-just-that-one-spot-in-the-CNS-where-it-causes-sudden-unconciousness- when you should be thinking, "Oh yeah, too much insulin and therefore hypoglycemia!"
I'm probably taking my OB/GYN rotation in a peripheral hospital instead of our uni hospital. Less zebras*, yes, but also A LOT less students and therefore more opportunity for me to learn what really needs to be learned. The non-zebras of GYN and how to deliver a baby.
* a zebra: Imagine a herd of horses. A zebra sticks out, yes? But it is also very uncommon. Just like any of the exceedingly rare diseases that any med student knows from path class and thinks of way before they think of the more prevalent ones. Think "a-tumor-at-just-that-one-spot-in-the-CNS-where-it-causes-sudden-unconciousness- when you should be thinking, "Oh yeah, too much insulin and therefore hypoglycemia!"