Shadowing Experience #1: A Parkinson's Disease Patient
Introduction: Welcome to Scribbles from the Scrubs! A blog where I talk about my journey as a high school student hoping to pursue medicine in the future. For today’s blog entry, I would like to share my experience shadowing a Parkinson’s Disease patient who is in his mid-60s and has been suffering from muscle rigidity and bloating in the stomach. Before assisting this patient, I did some reading on PD. So here is a gist on what I gathered: