Party Night

 

 

 

My day shift over the weekend gave me a host of wonderful “leftover” sign-outs.  The most notable of which was the lovely gentleman featured in the last two posts.  However, he was only one of the characters who spent the night before in drug-addled binges.

One man came in with “Crack Overdose” – [...]

Not Sure I want to Swim Here

This makes me shudder to think what has happened in this [...]

What’s for Lunch?

I am used to gross stuff. I see it every day. But still, there are times I just do a double take and almost throw up a little in my mouth. The other day a youngish woman came with “sores on the leg”. Much to my horror, when I asked to [...]

Lets Teach our Children That Galileo Belonged in Irons.

Quick rant here. I read with expected horror yet another article about how religious (and many political) conservatives mostly clustered in Southern states (what a surprise) have been introducing and pushing educational bills through their various state legislatures which champion “theories” of intelligent design, creationism, as well as questioning global warming. Probably [...]

Hard to Believe You

Lets see, you’re a 43 year old woman and in my ER with recurrent facial abscesses. You have celulitis all over your cheek which is very puffy. Your teeth are rotted. You have snorted massive amounts of cocaine for more than 20 years and now your entire nasal septum is gone and the resulting [...]

Highs and Lows

 

 

 

OK, quick non-medical post here. I really enjoy the winter Olympics. Growing up on skis, I think it kicks butt over the summer ones – although the excitement of many watching it may be due to the distinct possibility of crashing big time, being [...]

Sit in

In ironic coincidence with the 50th anniversary of the Woolworth lunch counter sit – in down in Greensboro, NC (the counter and stools are part of the Smithsonian now), I had a patient who staged his own sit – in, albeit under less noble circumstances. He marched into a local diner and plopped himself [...]

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