What two things go great together? Or maybe not. What two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other but somehow, you emphasize them as if they did? Pinky toe pain and chest pain of course! Why not come in to the ER at 5am for that? Why? So [...]
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Note the quotes as this is Nurse K’s preferrred spelling for patients afflicted with either psych disease or a very poor grasp of reality. Last night I just kept seeing them. Crayzee chronic back pain wants something “stronger than OxyContin”, crayzee anxious chest pain who says that “Ativan makes me jittery”, crayzee chronic abdominal pain [...]
Hmmm. How many cases are a waste of time (and money) during a typical shift? I am curious so I am going to take a pol. All you RN’s, EMS workers, Docs, and other health care workers, tell me how many calls/cases/visits during a typical shift. When I say waste of [...]
OK, one can sort of forgive this kid for what he did – however, he is 8 years old and hopefully has some common sense. Although I remember when I was his age – I had very little but I don’t think I would have done what he did. Anyway, he came in for an [...]
Sometimes the diagnosis is pretty obvious as soon as you enter a room – usually by sight but in some cases by smell. This is often the case with certain infections – be warned, if you are reading this at your lunch break, you might want to put that salami on rye down [...]
Of the many uses one has for an industrial stregth sheet metal file, alas, they should not include the reduction in thickness of one’s foot callouses. This scenario was played out in the ER when I was a med student, on my first ER rotation. A middle aged man, apparently frustrated at the ineffectiveness [...] |
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