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What are your options when you discover your spouse has been cheating (or you THINK your spouse has been cheating)? Well, I would recommend a cooling off period followed by a marriage counsellor if you still really want to try to patch things up. What I do not recommend is stalking your wife and [...] Attention, if you are 43, unemployed, and still live with your mother (probably playing Dungeons and Dragons) and decide to clean your samurai sword, causing a deep slash wound across your fingers requiring surgery for lacerated tendons, please expect us to think you are a little bizarre. If you arrive here in tight circa mid [...]
For some reason this past weekend was full of excitement in the ED. I work in a community ER which is NOT a trauma receiving centre – so we don’t get much “real” trauma. However, each of the three previous nights I worked (Fri, Sat, Sun) I had one stab wound the [...]
To some it apparently is. ER is a RELATIVELY new field (since the late 60’s/early 70’s) but not so new that people should not have some concept of what being trained in ER means and how members of the field practise. I often get the following question from patients who seem to like [...]
Bleeding was the theme of the night. My last night shift felt like it was spent stopping or dealing with bleeding most of the time. Three GI bleeders: One severe lower GIB with a Hgb of 4.9, one coffee ground emesis with an Hgb of 7, and one melanotic stool with an Hgb of 7.5. [...]
Remember that character on the Quick Draw McGraw cartoon, Billy the Little Kid? He was a 7 year old outlaw who holds up banks with his Peacemaker (see, you think just because I am a Brady Law supporter from the North, I would not know what that is). There is now a new kid [...] After:
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I did not see this patient (the pics are circulating somewhere on the web) however it is pretty clear to say that there is a lesson learned: Don’t run in the house with a fork in [...] |
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