Wow, I’ve got the day off, it’s sunday. It’s almost felt like a whole weekend off, because yesterday, after call I didn’t go to sleep. Instead, I went to the first annual “Tour de Tykes” mountain bike race to raise money for our local children’s hosptial. One of my friend organized the […]
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1) You’ll notice that many of my post titles are song or book titles, or a line from a song. The first person who can email me (atkinson AT alumni DOT pitt DOT edu) with each post and tell me who the artist/author is will receive special mention in my next post! […]
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An interesting first-hand account of Malaria at medical weblog
Feet First.
I must return to the unit now, it’s almost midnight, and I’ll be up till morning. My migraine isn’t quite gone, but it’s a little better. Hopefully the night is quiet.
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I’m exhausted. The long nights with little sleep are catching up to me. Everyday I feel more and more like a doctor here. I feel more comfortable with crises and procedures here in the unit. Today I did my first procedure under fluoroscopic guidance. Fluoroscopy is like a continuous […]
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Remember the man I mentioned about 2 weeks ago who had swerved to avoid a deer and ended up hitting a tree? A week later, he came to the hospital with encephalitis that we initially thought was related to an undiagnosed skull fracture. Later, the neurologists decided that it was coincidental, and […]
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We had an overdose admission today. For some reason, I really like overdoses. An overdose patient arrivng in the unit has usually already been stabilized to some degree, and presents a good opportunity to learn about their particular ingestion. Today, it was Seroquel, an antidepressant. We looked up the management of […]
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An elderly man, who was quite active in his retirement fell off of a ladder about 10 feet up. He landed on his side and broke several ribs and ended up with what’s called a “flail chest”. When he breaths in, the flail segment sank inward, and when he exhaled, it puffed outward, […]
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Only five days left in the unit and two call nights. Between now and then, there is a picnic for the new interns, a mountain bike race that I’m not in shape to enter, a bike parade that I could easily enter, and a day off. I’ve been spending far too much time […]
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Well, it’s about 11pm and time for me to lie down for my 2-3 hour nap tonight. We split the night up on call so each of us gets a couple hours of sleep. Today was a busy day, with three new admissions, three transfers out of the unit, one death, and several […]
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A simultaneous arrival the other night with the race car driver was a young Amish man injured in a barn raising. Sixty men besides him were raising a beam into position, when his head got trapped between an existing beam behind him, and the one […]
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