Dealing with a non compliant patient
Context and description
This report will outline a personal reflection that occurred during the hospital placement in October. A 78-year-old male patient, a local GP, with a medical history of type II diabete mellitus for thirty years and severe peripheral neuropathy presented at the high-risk foot clinic for a weekly routine treatment. He wears a pair of darco boots and presented with neuroischemic ulcers on both feet. As this patient was allocated for student to treat for the day, and I obtained the patient’s permission before the treatment began.
Left hallux was deteriorated further from last week’s pictures, which required an aspiration from the lesion to investigate further whether this lesion is infected again. Left fourth and fifth inter-digital ulcerations were not improved, and right dorsum of second digit’s ulcerated wound was epithelised. Saline flushed and mildly debride the lesions with blacks file and mosquito forceps. Wound dressed with bactroban, baitain and mefix on left hallux, and baitain with mefix on other
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I was worried about I might cut myself or cut the patient’s toe. The supervisor agreed that the technique is not a safe way, which we all should not do in the normal practical settings. However when there are no equipment is available like the mandrill machine and patients need our care right there, we should provide the best of care where we may possibly can. So this instance, we all know this is inappropriate technique, but find the other way to make patients happy and our work done. As she explained that many podiatrists visiting out service including hospital and nursing home visit, they are not always able to carry machines or other heavy instruments, but we must know how we can utilise with available resources and time for what we have to do the
In her personal essay, Dr. Grant writes that she learned that most cases involving her patients should not be only handled from a doctor’s point of view but also from personal experience that can help her relate to each patient regardless of their background; Dr. Grant was taught this lesson when she came face to face with a unique patient. Throughout her essay, Dr. Grant writes about how she came to contact with a patient she had nicknamed Mr. G. According to Dr. Grant, “Mr. G is the personification of the irate, belligerent patient that you always dread dealing with because he is usually implacable” (181). It is evident that Dr. Grant lets her position as a doctor greatly impact her judgement placed on her patients, this is supported as she nicknamed the current patient Mr.G . To deal with Mr. G, Dr. Grant resorts to using all the skills she
Some may argue that the quality of medical treatment and technology are the most important attributes to a successful recovery. Relman stayed at two hospital facilities during his recovery. The first was Massachusetts General Hospital, and the second was the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Cambridge. Both facilities belonged to the Partners Health System and, therefore, had similar technologies available. Relman mentions multiple times that his care at Spaulding, as opposed to Massachusetts General, was “sometimes excellent but often inadequate.” (Relman) He came to these conclusions based on how he was personally treated as a patient, rather than based on the quality of the treatments. At Spaulding, multiple physicians treated Relman. His main physician went on vacation so multiple associates stepped in to check up on him throughout his stay. None of these associates made him feel comfortable as a patient. They tended strictly to his dire needs and did not spend much time with him beyond primary...
She later returned to the doctor, the doctor recommended that she undergo some test to find out if there was an underlying cause for the pain in the hallux. The results of the test indicated that she had a condition called Peripheral artery disease (PAD), as a result of this no blood was getting to her hallux. “Peripheral artery disease (also called peripheral arterial disease) is a common circulatory problem in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to your limbs.” (mayoclinic.org)
Lastly, and for many professionals, most importantly, further methods engaged with problems of foot constriction and swelling. When the men could not take their boots off, and when they were laced too tight, their feet swelled. This was terrible for their circulation. Sir John French’s dispatch in the BMJ listed in preferential
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Then obtained permission from the patient for the next procedure with a number 15 blade to penetrate the left lateral hallux nail. But patient could not tolerate the pain and it interfered me to proceed further and deeper. With a supervisor and the patient permission, I decided to inject a local anaesthetic of Xylocaine 2% on the dorsum of both proximal IPJs of the left hallux to numb the lesion (Watkins, 2010). The patient was become so anxious, and I was also getting nervous by doing an injection itself, then I accidently punctured into my thumb before applying it onto the patient’s. I immediately took off the glove and apply betadine with an appropriate wound dressing. It was a really embarrassing moment, which I became lose of
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