Let’s see - how many health care dollars can be spent wastefully in one shift? A typical busy Monday resulted in:
1. A septic 95 year old bedridden, PEG’d, stroked out, decub-ridden patient from home gets admitted for the whole 9 yards (although at least she was DNR but should have been DNDA(do not do […]

60’s year old female comes in with one week to 10 days of weakness in the right foot - over the last two days the other foot is involved and she cannot walk. She now also has some pins and needles feeling in two fingers in one hand. She had presumed influenza about 3 […]

One teenager the other night thought a good way to “ask for forgiveness” from her mother following an argument was to run into the bathroom, grab a bottle of generic Excedrin ( a mixture of aspirin, Tylenol, and caffeine used mostly for migraines) out of the medicine cabinet, and then in front of her distraught […]

Had my ass kicked last night so next post to be tomorrow…

By now, all of you know that the pop singer and twice - accused pedophile, Michael Jackson has died in LA at the age of 50. All we know is that he was found by paramedics “not breathing” and then was in cardiac arrest. He was in a coma for a short while […]

Yesterday I went out and finally jumped ship to get a new Iphone. I have been fussing with it all day and already downloaded 10 apps. There are a lot of cool medically - oriented ones - including of the obvious epocrates. Don’t worry though, I am working again the next few […]

So, as I said, the shift went by in a blur and I was thankful it was over. There were actually numerous other cases that kept my attention besides this lady’s headache. I was off for three days after this shift so I was not able to follow up on it for several days. […]