Kids and parents

It's been a couple weeks into my peds rotation. I'm able to do more in terms of physical exams, but I still don't feel like I'm training to be a good physician. I don't know if it is because I'm not learning much or that I have not much of a way to communicate with the patients since they pretty speak Spanish only. By now, I can understand them most of the time but I can't speak so that pretty much limit my ability to do any one on one.

The one thing that I feel like I've learn the most is listening to the lungs. I am getting to where I can actually what rhonchi, rales, crackles and wheezing sound like. A lot of these kids come in having asthma exacerbations and getting sick from the new school year. We even had one come in having croup.

One reason why peds is not for me is that the parents are not my thing. The kids are actually ok but the parents just not my thing. The most common thing is having an obese kid come in and the parents ask what they can do to help their kid to lose the weight. But when you really tell them what to do, they say that they are doing all that but I'm thinking "Wow! you did all that and the kid still gain 10-15lbs since the last visit." Carzy parents.

First Day

I just started my Peds rotation today. I am assigned to a private clinic setting with 2 docs. Today was a lot of kids coming to get their school physicals signed. It was a lot of the same things but there are variations. I saw some of the cutest kids.

The one thing that strikes me was that I'm at lost half the time. It wasn't because of being the first day, it was the fact I have to listen hard just to understand the patients. Majority of the patients speak Spanish. It's been so long since I have really listened and tried to understand Spanish. I was surprised at the words that I was able to pick just today. I'm guessing by the end of this month, I'll at least be able to understand Spanish like I was in high school. Haha. Who would've guessed.

Anyways, I'll just have to see where this goes.