In my previous visits to the ER I had never seen anyone in them. I accompanied a resident who interviewed one of the patients in the cells. He was schizophrenic and was hearing voices at the same time the resident was talking to him. It was quite unnerving being in the presense of someone who seemingly had no inhibitions and seemed to relish the thought of hurting other people, as this patient expressed the desired to do. He was eventually admitted to the psychiatric ward for further observation and treatment.
School is still very interesting.
Although our learning is problem based and we are dealing with clinical issues, we are still barely scratching the surface of what medicine really is. Our previous two cases have both been heart related. The Parallel Curriculum is a great program, but I think it has one major flaw. Each week we are given a case and our task is to identify the medical topics covered by the case and attempt to learn something about them. This works rather well for topics involving anatomy, histology, etc, but biochemistry is a little different.