health&wellness&balance Posted October 22, 2020 Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 She was surprised to heart that i am interested in a surgical speciality and she told me that she thinks I have FM personality (She is a family physician herself).. What exactly is a FM personality? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostLamb Posted October 22, 2020 Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 It is whatever they think is that personality....often closely aligning with his or her own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robclem21 Posted October 22, 2020 Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 I tend to think that family doctors are much more interested in spending time getting to know their patients on a deeper level, often inquiring about their family lives, social supports, social determinants of health, and genuinely looking at the bigger picture. Interviews and patient interactions are slower paced and emphasize a strong patient-physician relationship. A lot of specialists who are more time-limited (even as residents and medical students) just want to get to the main point of the problem, fix it, and move on without much thought to all else going on in their patients lives. If it is a family doctor telling you this, consider it a compliment, if its a surgeon telling you this, still not a bad thing but consider moving a bit faster. *Note this is just a broad generalization and not every family doc/specialist is like this* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToxicMegacolon Posted October 22, 2020 Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 It means you like to shoot-the-shit with the patients, are tolerant of uncertainty and willing to use time as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearded frog Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 She thinks that you can write a note that isn't a string of four letter acronyms and you're only concern if the patient can make it to the OR or not... its kind of a dig at surgeons. blah1234 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intrepid86 Posted October 25, 2020 Report Share Posted October 25, 2020 She thinks you have above average bedside manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGrisham Posted October 25, 2020 Report Share Posted October 25, 2020 On 10/22/2020 at 4:47 AM, robclem21 said: Interviews and patient interactions are slower paced and emphasize a strong patient-physician relationship. A lot of specialists who are more time-limited (even as residents and medical students) just want to get to the main point of the problem, fix it, and move on without much thought to all else going on in their patients lives. FM in most FFS settings is not slower paced haha. I would take a day in GIM clinic over FM clinic any day. Better paid, more time to think and digest, and not rushing onto the next one. When GIM clinics are "time limited" it's because they want to make more money and/or they have a large list of patients they "need to see". LostLamb and whatisgoingon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blah1234 Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 On 10/24/2020 at 7:24 PM, bearded frog said: She thinks that you can write a note that isn't a string of four letter acronyms and you're only concern if the patient can make it to the OR or not... its kind of a dig at surgeons. Writing a note that's is 3 lines long and only comprised of letters and/or special characters is the only way they know how to communicate. We can't expect our surgical colleagues to give us a novel like our ID friends. I will accept a finger painting though if they provide it. LostLamb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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