Dang-nab-it, it is such a pain in the ass to have to re-cert every year for at least one thing or the other. One year it is BLS/ACLS, the next year it is PALS and every 4 years it is ATLS.  Add in the “Mandatory Education” that we have to do as hospital employees (featuring questions […]

This is a link to a pretty horrific video from somewhere in the middle east ( I am guessing Lebanon). This dude attempts to dive into the water and comes up short. The scene is awful. The part I am shocked by is the scene in the ER at the end. I have never (and […]

What the hell is going on lately?  With all the recent data showing that all the cat scans we are doing on children are likely increasing their chance of cancer later in life, why in God’s name would a pediatrician send in a 5 year old with mild facial pain, the sniffles, and low grade […]

Tell me Dr Hippocrates, what are the indications for performing surgery in this case?
Well Dr Lowly ERP, the indications are hotly debated.
Interesting. How so?
Unfortunately, no good data has shown much improvement of cognition or survival in patients who are operated on vs those who are not.
Wow, so, even this case where a previously functional and […]

Nothing else to do when you have 29 people in the waiting room, no rooms in the ER, no rooms in the entire hospital, and every other hospital in your county is also on full diversion/bypass.
Just get the surgi-lube to make it less painful.

Here is the most important bit of advice you will ever get. Now, this really only applies to the elderly or anyone else that is frail, but we all eventually will get that way so put it in the memory banks for later if you are not yet collecting social security.
If everyone followed this […]

PAINFUL
Click on the picture for a video reminder and pause it at :52. We had one of these the other night. OUCH!