Does not mean you can drive. The other day I watched one of our hospital’s doctors attempting to drive his Audi Cabriolet out of the doctor’s lot. Our lot has a gate that goes up automatically when you get the exit and it is hemmed in on either side with curbing. Unfortunately, […]

You know it is getting bad when your shifts suck so much that you WISH you would get Swine flu so you could get off work LEGITIMATELY for 4 or 5 days! It is only fair after all the work notes I have written for the jillions of patients with flu that I have seen […]

The family of the patient, 49 year old Esmin Green, who died last year in the Kings County Psychiatric Emergency waiting room has evidently taken a 2 million dollar settlement for her death. If you remember is case, the woman, awaiting evaluation in the Psych Er (she had a history of psychiatric disease), […]

That is the number of people we saw during a 24 hour period over the past weekend. Our average is about 110-120 and our previous record was 156. Blew that one out of the water.
Being a holiday weekend we had our prerequisite number of “sick” calls (the weather was nice after all, so you better […]

This one is just downright “unpleasant”. So be forewarned….
An average appearing man in his 30’s sallied forthwith to the ER initially telling the triage RN he had a sore throat. Once interviewed by the MD, gave a little more “embarrassing” details.
Evidently, he was out one day, just minding his own business when he […]

The better off you are. For instance, eyesight is a good thing. People should know the basics of how to preserve it. This includes knowing what substances to NOT put into the eye. Generally, the only things that you should put into your eyes (unless and MD prescribes it to you) are A. Clean water […]

Many have bemoaned the endless list of questions the nurse in triage has to ask every patient - that usually have zero to do with why they are in the ER. Such JAHCO-required nonsense includes “Have you been exposed to TB lately” (to someone there for a sprained ankle),”Are you a victim of domestic violence” […]