Sorry for the downer theme two days in a row but lately, most of my memorable cases have been sad and or really sick. It always saddens me when an elderly person neglects themselves and does not let their family help. It is even worse when they refuse to divulge any symptoms to […]

The other day we had a case that made me cringe.  A 95 year old man was brought in by EMS after having fallen the following evening while exiting the bathroom (not very uncommon). The upsetting part was that he lived with his mentally retarded adult son who as it turns out was not particularly […]

Today I worked the third shift in a row of a killer weekend. It was so busy each day that no matter what we did, we were always about 10 patients in the hole. Today was particularly because I had a lot of very sick people . The most harrowing case was that […]

Here is a funny one my Dad (a nephrologist) told me about that happened a week or so back. So, a dialysis patient was called the night before by the lab since he had had blood work done the day before that came back abnormal. His potassium was over 6 so they had […]

OK, I agree that having your birthday party spoiled is a big bummer but come on now, you are 19 years old and need to learn to deal with disappointment.  Throwing a giant tantrum and punching the wall multiple times because most of the people cancelled (maybe because you are a big baby) is pretty pathetic. […]

I came upon an article describing a study that I thought was kind of interesting.  ER docs were polled about what they thought of the force used by police in collaring suspected criminals. By a HUGE margin, they thought excessive force was used. I say that I agree to some point - I have seen […]

Whether you celebrate Christmas for its original purpose or for its more modern incarnation of revelling in unbridled capitalism, I hope you have a merry day! Regular posts to resume tomorrow. I have a good one in the works.