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I stumbled upon this list on the Internet yesterday and had to publish a link to it. Some of the abbreviations are hilarious, some disgusting, and most very appropriate. My new favourites include: AALFD – Another A**hole Looking For Drugs 240 grain Injection – 44 calibre magnum wound Ass Grapes – badly thrombosed or strangulated haemorrhoids BSS – [...]
Necessity is the mother of invention. Health care workers are always inventing little things with whatever is around (MacGyver-style) to make our lives (and our patients’) easier. Here is such an example. A patient came in the other day with massive ascites from hepatic failure and required a paracentesis (draining the fluid [...]
Sometimes, it order to avoid a costly and unnecessary work up, you have to have an intervention with a patient. Not a “stop drinking” or “stop cocaine” intervention, but a “you don’t need any more testing, you will get better on your own” one. I have a pretty good success rate with these but [...]
Hurrah! We finally got our Glidescope (see pic above) for the ER! Until now, the anaesthesia department and the ICU had them but we were left out (budget constraints? who knows). The last three difficult airways I have been involved with have been easily stabilised and intubated using this fibre-optic instrument. As most of [...]
Some translations for you: ER Doctor: “Yes, sometimes you can get weird symptoms with this condition” = “I have no idea what those weird symptoms are, you are probably crazy or at the least, they do not concern me in the Emergency Dept”. Patient: “My doctor is meeting me here” = “I am under the false [...]
No, I am not taking about if I am just good at what I do. I am talking about what the staff thinks when they see me walk in for my shift! I know (or at least I am pretty sure I do) that some of the overnight staff prefers me to [...] |
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