You are asked by the CEO of your hospital to contribute to theannual report
You are asked by the CEO of your hospital to contribute to theannual report. She wants you to write a five-page paper generallydescribing each of the ten departments in your hospital(Dermatology, Oncology, Gastroenterology, Pulmonary, Cardiology,Endocrinology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics, andNeurology). Include the most common diseases seen in eachdepartment, using examples of patient cases from each department.Include the principal procedures and services that are relevant toeach department. Highlight pertinent laboratory and radiologicaldiagnostic services contributed to each of the ten departments.Identify the specialty teams in the respective departments and theservices they offer. Discuss all the details of this paper withyour classmates (e.g. what would the most common procedures be ineach department? What diseases would patients present with? Howwould they be worked up in the appropriate department? Whatdiagnostic procedures would be necessary for a given case? Etc.)Once you have discussed the paper in detail with your colleagues,then write your contribution to the annual report. You may use thefollowing example to write the descriptions of the otherdepartments. The pediatric department attends to mostly ambulatorypatients. Our most common cases are otitis media, immediatelyfollowed by various trauma cases mostly involving fractures,dislocations, and minor surgery. In the diagnosis of trauma caseswe utilize our new CT scan facility, and we have recently addedcapacity to perform PET scans, which we use effectively to diagnosevarious early onset pediatric oncology cases such asosteoblastomas, and osteochondromas. A speciality group is beingformed to diagnose and treat pediatric cardiology cases,specifically tetralogy of fallot. Recently, our pediatricdepartment identified a chronic lead poisoning case that presentedonly with lead colic. It was quickly recognized by our physicianswho utilized the laboratory staff, which ran a complete blood countand, identified the stippled red blood cells, pathognomonic of leadpoisoning.
0 comments:
Post a Comment