First Clinical Experience

So, this week I had my first clinical experience and I am feeling completely overwhelmed.... it is a lot harder to see really sick patients than I first thought......

How are you supposed to feel when you see a patient that can't walk 100m and can die at anytime.... I am just feeling very overwhelmed and depressed............The main problem is caring, I always thought that hospital workers are very uncaring but the main problem is if you care too much then you can't do your job and can't handle the pressure.

I almost feel different that I understand their disease and yet can't do anything to help them, I feel I can't even relate to others that haven't gone through it because it is so hard, it really does change you.

I always though PT job was so easy, just get the person to walk and improve their functioning but there are a lot of other aspects including convincing to get better and knowing there are limits to get better and not everybody can improve 100%, I think this is the hardest part of the job, knowing the limits.....

First month Thoughts

So the first month has gone by and boy was it intense.... I never in a million years thought that it would be this much work and this stressful. I thought of yeah.. no problem how hard could this be right? It is just PT school it's not like it's med school or something right?

I was definitely wrong, this IS like med school, we have anatomy where we are expected to know all the major muscles, joints, arteries, veins in addition to pretty much how everything works in the body, which is a bit crazy since at the same time we have to learn about actual physio as well as having clinical placements, definitely an intense schedule.

Ohh well have to go study for Anatomy test which is the hardest subject I have found so far.

Wish me luck!

Welcome!

So, hello to anyone crazy enough to read my new attempt at blogging about struggling thorugh PT school.

This is my attempt at documenting my frustrations and adventures (probably more frustrations!) that occur in PT school.

Welcome!