Two down, one to go...

This week is my final week on my Family Medicine rotation. This past month has seemed to just fly right by and I have no idea where the time went. I was assigned to a very busy group practice of seven physicians, my doctor was Dr. Dwane Broussard. I enjoyed my time with them, and learned a lot as well. We had some patients that I'll probably remember for a long time, even though I only got to know them for a short amount of time. This week caps off my month with 3 days of exams, two of which I just completed. Yesterday we had to see three standardized patients with various complaints that are commonly seen in a family practice clinic, and were graded on our performance of our history and physical exam. Today was a computerized clinical case exam with videos and such, with short answers, and tomorrow is a typical national board exam, which thankfully is just pass/fail for this clerkship. After this week is through, I plan to spend some time gathering some residency information together and hopefully finish most of my work on that before pediatrics begins.

I've also found myself going to the doctor myself pretty often this past month, the eye doctor. Most of you all know that I've worn contacts for the past 10 years, and for some reason or another my eyes stopped tolerating them last fall. I've been through an optometrist and two ophthalmologists and we think we finally understand what might be happening. Some freakish kind of immune mediated allergic response to the preservatives in my contact solution seems to be the issue. So I'm currently on 4 different types of eye drops (a major pain in the butt) and have another appointment scheduled soon. Hopefully I can get this sorted out and be back to normal before too long. They're going to run some more tests on my eyes my next visit to see if this is helping and if I can get back in my contacts (preservative free stuff this time).