another one bites the dust

Just took the final for Physical Diagnosis, which included me pretending to know what I'm doing on a standardized patient (a trained actor who pretends to be a patient). He was really cool about it, and afterwards, gave me pointers on techniques that he said was "usually meant for 2nd or 3rd year students". I'm proud to say that playing pretend with Mike really helped. I only forgot to examine 1 thing, but really, who needs intact hearing anyway.

My hands however, were uncooperative. They were not shaking, just bone chillingly cold, the kind of thing that I have vowed not to inflict my future patients because I hate doctors with cold hands. I apologized at least 4 times. Nothing I did to warm them up worked. Not even sticking it in between my legs, although that looked awkward and I decided to stop. Fun times. Fun times.

Can't say I did equally well on the written portion though. Stupid cranial nerves. If you have peripheral nerve palsy or something like that, don't ask me, because apparently I have no idea what the hell is wrong with you. Oops.