Sunday, September 06, 2009

Cardiology Clinic

We have clinic 1-2 half-days a week which is pretty fun. Clinic is where I see all the great physical exam findings; I've seen several patients who had rheumatic heart disease in the past and have easily audible murmurs or mechanical heart valves. The patients are generally elderly and cute, who are fun to talk to and treat medical students wonderfully. They usually don't have a chief complaint, but are just getting routine follow-up of their heart disease. The pace in clinic is usually pretty time-pressured as we're always over-booked and behind. But I think compared to other clinics, the heart stuff is pretty fun.

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