As Blair is preparing to apply to medical school he has been assisting at Utah Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Clinic in Provo. This has given him a ton a very valuable experience. He met the head doctor of the clinic, Dr. Rich, when he was working with the football team last year (Dr. Rich is also one of the BYU doctors that helps with all the sports).
Blair has already learned and seen so many things in just the month that he's helped at the clinic. The Dr. trusts Blair to work with the patients and teach them rehab exercises before he can see them. Blair asks a lot of questions to get an idea of the problem, then helps the patients until one of the doctors can see the patient. Blair has also learned how to make casts...something the two medical students doing rotations there are just learning for the first time.
Speaking of the medical students, I have another story. One of the doctors at the clinic was working with Blair and the two medical students last week. She took an x-ray of a patients foot and decided to test the med students on what the x-ray showed. She asked about a few of the bones in the foot and neither of them could name them. Since, Blair was looking at the x-ray also and knew what the bones were, he answered. The doctor was very impressed that Blair knew these immediately and neither of the med school students didn't. So she tried to test the students again and the same thing happened...they didn't know but Blair did! Again, she was impressed. She wanted to try the students one more time, so she pointed to a few more bones and specifically told Blair not to answer this time (even though he did know them). Well, the med school students didn't know and the doctor was disappointed in them, but she was very impressed with Blair! He totally showed them up!
One of the med school students is a 3rd year and the other is a 4th year. Blair said later that night that as long as he can get into med school, he'll be fine, especially if he knows things that the students who are almost done don't even know. He makes me so proud!
He is getting a lot of good practice away from the clinic as well. Every time someone in either my family or his gets hurt or has something bothering them, they call Blair and ask him what they should do. (List of those who have asked Blair's opinion: Me, Mom, Kels, Em, Blair's Mom, Blair's Dad, Brian, Travis and Lauren...and the list will continue to grow) It is so fun to watch him, and he is already so great at what he does! Blair is going to be a great doctor in just a few years!!
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