5:30 pm.
3rd year of medical school.
Internal medicine clerkship.
Medically “routine” evening discharge.
The patient happened to be homeless.
Tasks my resident gave me to do: make sure the patient had their prescriptions, a place to stay and a way to get there.
3rd year of medical school.
Internal medicine clerkship.
Medically “routine” evening discharge.
The patient happened to be homeless.
Tasks my resident gave me to do: make sure the patient had their prescriptions, a place to stay and a way to get there.
First I headed straight to the hospital pharmacy before they closed and picked up the scripts.
Then a taxi voucher from the nurses station.
Quick Google search and printed off 3 shelter options.
All of it went in a bag that we gave to the patient.
Then a taxi voucher from the nurses station.
Quick Google search and printed off 3 shelter options.
All of it went in a bag that we gave to the patient.
The whole thing took maybe 15 minutes.
I can still remember the look on her face when we gave her the bag.
Like she’d been seen and heard and cared about for the first time in a long while.
I can still remember the look on her face when we gave her the bag.
Like she’d been seen and heard and cared about for the first time in a long while.
She was still chronically ill and homeless.
But she had medicine, a place to stay and a way to get there.
And that meant the world.
Students: never underestimate the impact that your small gestures can have on patient’s dignity, comfort and quality of life.
#MedTwitter
But she had medicine, a place to stay and a way to get there.
And that meant the world.
Students: never underestimate the impact that your small gestures can have on patient’s dignity, comfort and quality of life.
#MedTwitter
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