How bout Trying a Marriage Counsellor First?

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

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 [...]

Weekend Excitement

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 [...]

Is “Emergency Medicine” Confusing?

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 [...]

Anne Rice would be Happy

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. [...]

Billy the Little Kid

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 [...]

Fork You

After:

Before:

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 [...]

Alcohol or Drug Addiction?

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