The struggle is real!
🚨 Before anyone gets bent out of shape in the comments, this is meant to be a joke. As an orthopedic surgeon, I do have to admit it can be difficult to remember a lot of facts about internal medicine since what we do on a daily basis focuses so heavily on muscles, bones, and joints.
👉 That being said, most of us can still remember a lot of the basics of internal medicine and probably did reasonably well on our internal medicine rotation as medical students to be able to match into a competitive field like orthopedics.
😷 Anyway, as physicians, we all have our strengths and weaknesses. Some of us may be better at reading EKGs, while others at reading x-rays. At the end of the day, we’re all working together to take the best care of patients we can. Many thanks to my internal medicine colleagues who have helped me manage many of my patients’ medical issues over the years after their various orthopedic surgeries.
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