Today was one of the days where I had to visit the families and probably this was my 4th visit. I was happy that they opened up to me and shared what they were going through, this kinda gave me this feeling of being able to help them and try my best towards looking after them.
Today wasn't like any other normal visit, there was a moment where I felt like I had failed in doing my job.
One of my family members complained of chest pain and upon further enquiry I figured out that the pain was radiating to her left arm. Like any other amature medico I guessed that it's a case of myocardial infarction...
I gave a call to my teacher, asked him to come to her house, got the BP apparatus and checked her BP which ended up being normal, her pulse was in the normal range too. I guessed that it was something to do with her gastric issue as she had complained of it earlier as well.
Teacher arrived and I presented her health history to him. It turned out that I was right, it was her gastric issue that led to the pain and other complaints, and it also had a psychological component.
But that one moment where my brain didn't work, and took me to another world where I could have lost her probably due to some negligence from my side was terrible.
But every cloud has a silver lining, in the end she was safe and i was praised for having good communication skills.. It boosted my confidence, but again i don't know what's exactly going on with her, hopefully I'll be able to figure that out soon and be of some use to her.
