I graduated from medical school a quarter of a century ago. Most students used to work as residents at the university hospital that they graduated from. They had to choose their major like general surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, neurosurgery,,,, at that time. Once they selected their major, they had to study only their major. They didn't learn any other subject. It was the training system for new doctors in Japan.
I wondered whether it was right? The human body is composed of many parts. Any single part can't be alive without the other parts. I thought that we, medical doctors, must have a wide knowledge about the human body, besides our specialities. When a pregnant woman becomes unconscious, is the reason always an eclampsia of the pregnancy? The other day, a miserable incident occurred in Nara prefecture. An obstetrician diagnosed a nine-month pregnant woman with eclampsia. I'm not sure, but he might not have known how to examine the unconscious patient. If he had examined her pupils, which is a fundamental procedure to all doctors, she could then have consulted a neurosurgeon. If that were the case, she might be alive now. Her coma was due to CVA.
To get back to my original point, I left my university and became a resident in a middle-sized hospital in Osaka that is famous for adopting the American style of training system. As I expected, the training here was so hard, but I was able to survive these 3 years although I was admitted to hospital with colitis for a week. I met a few dozen residents from many places in Japan. They scattered across the country after finishing the resident period, but a few of them are good friends now.
One of them opened his own clinic in Nagoya city a few years ago. I haven't had the chance to see him for more than 20 years. However, as I wrote a few times before, my second daughter started to live in Nagoya City this April. I made an appointment to see him. I, my friend and his wife, who was our co-worker in the same hospital, got together in downtown Nagoya City for the first time in 20 years!!.
Only 2 hours was too short to talk about everything over the last 20 years.
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if that were the case. それが事実なら
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