Today was a wrap up of Medical Jurisprudence class. Basically, in order not to get sued, you
a.) Practice really good medicine a.k.a. stick to the standard of care (duh!),
2.) Document EVERYTHING!
III.) Don't steal drugs/abuse/overprescribe narcotics.
D.) NO SEX with your patients (this is a big one)
V.) Come clean if you make a mistake.
6.) Take the time to talk and explain things to your clientele. Believe it or not, this actually helps to reduce the number of angry patients who might potentially sue.
7.) What happens in the office, stays in the office (HIPAA).
SO, third year is a wrap. Officially! (Where's the Easy button?) 4th year starts tomorrow, bright and early @ 0730, with a Kaplan course, on a SATURDAY!
Yay.
But as far as today was concerned, I think I got a good deal of crap done today...registered for an ACLS course, studied for a bit @ the library, ran with my nephew...
The boy is 14 years old and taller than me. Naturally he schooled me in about 1.5 miles worth of warm up. His jog pace is like my sprint pace. I was gassed after all that. Then he wanted to run some more and asked me to start the pace so I could "slow it down" a bit. We did another 3 miles. Made it, barely - 35 minutes, about 8-9 songs worth. I can't wait to shed this excess weight...I hate feeling sluggish when I'm out there hitting the pavement. But it was good, overall. Can't really complain seeing as how today was the hardest I've pushed myself running in a good long while.
OK, 50 more USMLE practice questions and it's off to bed.
Song of the day: "Mistletoe" - Jukebox The Ghost
1. Sunfish - http://tiee.ecoed.net/vol/v4/experiments/habitat_shifts/img/sunfish%5BHR%5D.jpg
3 comments:
I remember those Kaplan classes to well 8 hour mock MCATs and all that gag. I have to say that while I am sure they do all that legal stuff up here it is so incredibly rare for physicians to be sued, I guess we just are all to damn polite and that an the College of Physicians in every province is normally the first line of legal action they do the sanctioning etc for bad behavior...
Those are all pretty obvious things or so you would think I guess not...
Congrats on the running and getting stuff done - aside from the laundry and the massive blog updating I am stuck looking at a blank Word doc, damn essay - feels like I'm trying to run a marathon with no training. Well best get on it I guess.
Hope the essay writing is going well. 4 more hours of kaplan peds and the rest of the afternoon will be just practice questions.
Blech essay writing 1 page done-ish I know it's just about getting it down on the paper and then ripping it apart and strengthening it later, it's worst than riding a bike after a long time away - this is really freaking me out, I need to find my writer mojo soon, this Stella needs her groove back or something like that...
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