Blog Post: 4/3/16

Welcome back! I have been shadowing my urgent care doctor in America now for a little and I am really in awe of how much she seems to manage. Not only is she the lead physician at the urgent care she is also a part of this company called PediatriX which works in pediatric centers around AZ. I believe she is stationed at the Honor Health on Shea and usually works night shifts. Then, to top it all off, she is also an associate professor at University of Arizona Medical School. All the while she has managed to be married to a hand surgeon and raise four boys while staying sane. I honestly cant picture how she is able to juggle it all. 

Now, one thing I noticed while I was shadowing Dr. Mohty at her urgent care center, is how much more advanced there system of medical record and assignments is to those in rural areas. For instance, when a doctor sees a patient he or she must then write several notes about their symptoms, progress, medication etc. However, they must write these notes in a certain extended fashion several times in different places. At the rural medical practice or any of the other sites in Puget, the doctor I shadowed had to write in everything by hand several times which really extended the process and made everything happen at a much slower pace. It obviously was not her fault at all, it's just she didn't have  the technology available. 

Also, in the urgent care center I am in right now, they have a flow of accepting patients and treating them as I have described in the previous post. They also have a system of lights which tells them when a patient is in a room or requires aid. They also have an arsenal of nurses which helps them with several tasks and a series of steps on where to put a patient and how to draft a document to cure them. These kind of resources are not available to rural medical professionals who instead have to work with swamped nurses and almost no flow in the hospitals. This makes their jobs much more challenging as well as strenuous. 

So far this has been a very interesting few weeks and I look forward to continuing my shadowing, research and comparison. Thank you for reading!