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The practice of medicine is a practice of apprenticeship.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
Faye Ng Yu Ci
The patient was a grandma in her 80s. She was diagnosed with dementia and hypoactive delirium, a condition where her faculties were diminished, and she was unable to engage meaningfully with the outside world.
When she failed to respond to our repeated questions and prompts, my registrar grew quiet, and walked over to a cabinet by the patient’s bedside.
