I knew from the look on the resident’s face when she sat down in my office to present the case that she had just been taxed by the patient encounter, drained to the point where she looked like she was ready to give up and go home for the day.
A new patient had been put on her schedule, and apparently she had been an incredibly difficult historian, with a number of complex health conditions, many chronic medications coupled with the expected polypharmacy and drug interactions, and she was followed by multiple specialists. And she did not actually know why she was seeing us in practice that day.
