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Firefighters! You can always tell when they are around – cuz nothing smells like people who have been in a fire for a while. Funny, because it does not smell like a fire – or something burning. It just smells like, I don’t know…. firefighters. Luckily they were just being treated for minor [...]
The other day I had a male patient who “cooked his proverbial “goose” so to speak. No, he did not die but many men might think that something like what happened to him was almost as distressing as dying! He worked as a chef at a restaurant and was transferring a giant pot of [...]
Last night I had a guy who I think had something I have only diagnosed once before. I believe he has Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a very serious but luckily rare condition. Basically it is a poorly understood immune reaction – usually to certain drugs, most notably sulfa-containing drugs like the antibiotic, [...]
Well, it was not long into the holiday weekend when we saw the first typical 4th of July injury. No, not fireworks- induced. But this was almost a careless. A woman was trying to light her Propane BBQ grille – turning up the gas. Unfortunately it would not light with the ignitor so [...]
Please, DO NOT do what this guy did. He was evidently repairing his radio in his car – and was leaning under the dash. Not a problem except for two other little teensey-weensy things. 1. He was smoking 2. He had a can of gasoline in the back seat of [...]
This one is a bit disturbing but then again, the ER is frequently upsetting and disturbing. A family with a 6 month old baby thought it would be a cute photo opportunity to take some shots of the kid sitting next to and staring at a lit candle (as children that age are fascinated [...] |
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