Few moments in medicine are as emotionally challenging as telling a patient that life may never be the same again. Whether informing someone about a diagnosis of schizophrenia, cancer, dementia, or a poor prognosis, breaking bad news is a task that demands not only clinical knowledge but also compassion, patience, and communication skills. Bad news […]
Tag: Psychiatry
Stress and Its Components
“When will it get better, Doctor?” your patient asks. And somewhere inside you, a quieter voice asks the very same thing. Before we reach for the textbook, sit with that for a moment. Because stress is not something we will only encounter in our patients, many of us are already living it. Hans Selye defined […]
The Two Weeks That Changed My Opinion by Sneha Gupta
During this psychiatry posting, I had the opportunity to gain exposure to both outpatient and inpatient psychiatric services. I actively observed and participated along with residents in psychiatric history taking and Mental Status Examination (MSE), which helped me understand the systematic clinical approach to patients with mental illnesses. I learned about the diagnosis and management […]
Notice Board as Social Media!! by Dr. M. Kishor
More than fifteen years ago when I joined a medical college as young staff, there was hardly any undergraduate psychiatry class!! First, there were nothing called regular staff and secondly, undergraduate students would not attend the session as psychiatry was not mandatory!! Attendance in psychiatry was never counted, all the more reason for students to […]
Inpatient Ward Experience of Resident: First Impression
It has been exactly two weeks since I began my journey as a first-year Psychiatry postgraduate resident at a teaching hospital, and I would like to reflect on my experiences in the psychiatric wards so far. I vividly remember my first day of ward rounds with my senior postgraduates, when I encountered a patient who […]