clinic drs

I’ve really enjoyed helping with the epilepsy clinic…not being much of a medical person it is something that I feel that I can do…we only have three drugs that we can use to treat epilepsy and I feel like I’ve gotten pretty good at knowing what the doctor is going to do from the questions asked (namely how many seizures have you had since you’re last visit—continue if none and usually add if they’ve had some). And of course there have been different doctors who help with the clinic—some who have been visiting for short times and others who are filling in or helping out on particularly busy Tuesdays…easily on any given day there are 50 patients for clinic (this includes epilepsy, diabetes, and high blood pressure along with other random ailments) and it has been interesting to see the differences…some ask about whether the people are going or have gone to school, or whether they are on contraception, or if they are drinking or smoking (that is a pretty common question), if they know their HIV status…and the answers we get are sometimes sounding very unbelievable …or nonsensible (when did you run out of medication? I take it always—helpful if you have it but if you’re out…)…but you have to take the answers you get because what else do you have?