Since our both our rotations earlier this week were canceled (Monday for the local version of Veteran's Day, and Wednesday for a national day of mourning following the [1] assassination of the Prime Minister's Press Secretary), we were rescheduled today for a Medicine rotation. Our preceptor was a Family Medicine physician working out of the Kingstown District Clinic. Or at least we hope he was a doctor working there. The nurse at the reception stated that "we have no doctor by that name working here." She must have been new, as we finally found another staff member who had seemingly both met this mysterious doctor, as well as seen medical students before. After finally finding our preceptor, we spent the next couple of hours discussing many topics, including why a history and physical is important, the increase in use of technology in medicine with the consequences that has produced (those that can afford it vs. those who can't, and the decreasing satisfaction of patients with the increasingly less personal nature of modern medicine), as well as the history of Family Medicine as a speciality and its recent changes in scope. All very interesting topics I am sure, but some of our group members felt that 8 days away from an exam, our time could have been better used studying. Well, at least it counts as a signautre on our rotations verification card. Only 5 left to go!

And speaking of studying, I need to get back to that now. Though dinner, and the subsequent postprandial increase in glucose, might be necessary first.