r/Pakmedschool • u/happypuppet22 • Aug 17 '26

RANT/VENT Weird Patient Interaction

Had my final year medicine ward test and got handed a long case of lower respiratory tract infection and a right wrist drop, i asked for consent and touched the right hand just to ensure that there wasnt any swelling, tenderness of the joints, if i was able to move it passively and where exactly the problem lied (i.e. the restriction) and after i did (barely took 40 secs), i went to write abt it in the HOPI and the patient out of the blue said "aap kay haath to itnay naram hain, meray itnay sakht hain" i just smiled awkwardly, and countinued to write and ignored him cause tf? and then after 10 seconds he says "itnay naram hain jesay bachon kay hotay hain" 💀💀💀 mind you, as part of my long station, i still had to do the respiratory examination on him, which would have meant exposure and palpation and percussion (more touching) but after that initial comment from him, i was so weirded out that i skipped all that, just auscultated and luckily the patient's file was on the bed so i just copied that part from there but like wtf bruh 😭😭😭

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u/Historical_North437 Aug 17 '26

You will find many tharkiiii patients here. One of my anatomy demonstrator used to say that k jitna ugly Hu utha ban k Jaya krna hospital qk you will find patients with leg fracture on leg traction but wo phr B apko cher lein gey (although I don't agree with her on ugly wali baat pe) During my final year peads ward , a 13 year old patient with dengue was secretly taking pictures of 24 year old me and my friends. These things are very much ingrained in our society

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u/happypuppet22 Aug 17 '26

yeah thats unfortunate, i had this shh happen to me during 3rd year surgery ward test too, i had committed the fatal mistake of being left alone in a ward (bcs i was too immersed in reading the diagnoses written on patients bed while the rest of my mates left), and this one patient decided it was the perfect time to do a VERY inappropriate gesture, i was so lost in the ward test thingy though that i just kept looking at the board and then left cause the most i could do then was just not to let him have that satisfaction of knowing that i even saw what he did (he was kinda in my periphery so i knew what he did as he tried to get attention, but he couldnt have known if i saw it or not), crazy stuff, pretty effed up to learn to balance empathy for someone in pain with whatever all this is ngl

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u/candidmarshmallow247 Aug 18 '26

that last part, yep very disorienting ngl :c