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Jamier
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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What is the day in the life of a pediatric physician? What if you are in the room with a patient who has stridor in their tracheal area as a respiratory therapist?
Do you leave the room and get assistance, or do you stay with the patient and yell for help or activate a rapid response? I was thinking that you stay with the patient and use the medical phone to call for help.
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Rita Chuang
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Although I'm not a pediatrician, I am a family medicine doctor. I believe pediatricians are one of the nicest doctors. They do see high volume of patients (35-40 a day if not more). I believe they are also underpaid (like a lot of doctors).
In terms of your question about a patient with stridor, this is where you depend on your team. If the patient as stridor and is already in an exam room, you probably don't have good staff. The front office or MA should see the patient struggling and inform you right away. You would hope that if the patient is suffering, the parent should be astute enough to know it's time to go to the ER.
In terms of your question about a patient with stridor, this is where you depend on your team. If the patient as stridor and is already in an exam room, you probably don't have good staff. The front office or MA should see the patient struggling and inform you right away. You would hope that if the patient is suffering, the parent should be astute enough to know it's time to go to the ER.