My shadowing day took place on January 26, 2004. Emergicare is a doctor's office owned by three different doctors. They receive visits from patients with various types of sicknesses. They are well known in the Charleston area for their longstanding establishment.
I arrived at Emergicare promptly at nine o"clock and was introduced to my hostess for the day. Her name was Simone Smith. Simone was the clinical supervisor of Emergicare. She told me a little about herself and how she began her medical career. She also asked me a few questions about what I interested in and what field in medicine I wanted to pursue. After answering a couple of questions we started to review the patients" charts. She told me about the patients and why they were there. Soon after the doctor arrived. His name was Kevin P. Jones. He seemed to be very fun and energetic with the way he greeted me. Having the doctor arrive, we were able to call in the first patient. .
The first man was in his late sixties and had complaints of a sore throat, runny nose, and other signs of a cold. Simone weighed him, checked his temperature and vision, then escorted him into the waiting room to wait for the doctor. That wasn't the last patient with the common cold symptoms. Throughout the day, we had a lot of cold cases and physicals that had to be done. .
After a couple of hours, Emergicare began to get really busy, and I found myself helping them. I would go get the patients and administer the exams that needed to be done. I would check their weight, temperature, vision, and blood pressure. Pretty soon, I had a stets scope of my own. Simone and Dr. Jones said I was doing a great job, and I was having a fun time doing it. Even though most of the patients had the common cold or ear infection because of the weather, we also received patients who had hives and other skin defects. In these cases, Simone showed me how to give a needle with the correct medicine to patients.
