When your employer tells you to be very careful using the Chinese noodle maker machine when you are preparing food for take out, heed his words. All I can say is that your hand will come out the other side looking a lot more like Chinese noodles than a hand if you [...]
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This is a CT from a 5 year old girl whose head got wedged between two cars that were moving very slowly in a parking lot. She did not have LOC or vomiting. She c/o a mild headache but was playful and looked pretty normal. This was done only because of the mechanism of [...] Well, I recently had an opportunity to add yet another day/holiday to my “try avoid working on” list. This list includes multiple dates as follows: New Year’s Eve – self explanatory Thanksgiving – drunken brawls between family members forced to be together Christmas – more the same. 4th of July – drunks, fingers blown off, etc Any Ethnicity’s”pride” parades – [...]
Remember the game “Operation” growing up? You know, the one where you reach into an electric “patient’ and remove things like a “broken heart” or the “funny bone”? If you touched the sides of the trough as you extracted the “organ” you got a little shock and [...]
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 [...]
Here is a memorable case I had when I was a resident that just popped back into my mind. It was a moderately busy Saturday night – I remember dealing with some annoying cases that seemed to suck the life out of me – but no one was particularly sick. Then the silence was [...] |
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