I swear if I had a nickel for every “bad idea” that I have seen in my ER…..
Anyway, last night I had a nice 75 year old man who had a colonoscopy earlier in the day. He had received Versed and Morphine for the procedure and felt a little nausea afterwards. He was released […]

The other night I faced a dilemma. There was a 17 year old female patient in with abdominal pain - which halfway sounded GYN and halfway sounded GI in origin. She had some non-so-common medical conditions as well. First she had precocious puberty when she was 5 and was on Lupron to push it off […]

I think one might want to regard a brush with death (or at least loss of limb) as a wake up call. Some people don’t really seem to however. Recently we had a young man in his twenties with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes. He drank a lot. He smoked a lot. He […]

Two cases from yesterday illustrate the above states of being.
1. A 30 year old diabetic man who is post op about 3 days from oral surgery decides to take two percocet for pain. He then goes to Dunkin Donuts and gorges himself on jelly-filled HgA1c-busting goodness. He feels crappy afterwards and calls EMS. His […]

One of them apparently is to use it for unwanted hair removal. 600 grit is just right for that pesky leg hair. Comes off as if you were using Nair. However, the skin on the leg is a bit more tough than the skin elsewhere. I do not recommend using […]

Hey, Guess what?! I got an invite to go to our hospital’s annual big deal Gala - and I would be please be honoured to buy a 25,000$ table! I could bring 10 friends and my name would appear in “diamonds” on the role of donors.
Good lord.

Old school doctors can be good and bad. Good in that they tend to be more attached to their patients, call back sooner, and are more willing to come into the ER to see them. However,there are also problems. Many are not up to date on current treatments. Many subscribe to outdated practise […]