Don’t let your boss shoot a nail into your head with the nail gun! Yes, I actually saw this tonight. I will post a picture of the xray. Doh! I should have gotten a regular photo too, it was too cool. I learned a lesson, though. When there are 30 patients in the department with [...]
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1) The lack of significant feedback to my “pick your patient’s nose” post (thanks victor & anna) just goes to show that there is no accounting for humor. The synchronicity leading up to that post was just uncanny! First Ilyka posts about a patient with a fingernail stuck up her nose and I am ROTFL [...]
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Mucus. As the nasal speculum illuminated the dark passage in front of me, its ability to magnify the most private recesses of human dignity prophesied a secret that none of us are willing to publicly acknowledge: Snot. The scope of the otolaryngologist had saved her mucous membranes, though her mother told a different story. As [...]
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This is absolutely hysterical! Not quite as gross as the gum abcess I wrote about earlier, and much, much funnier! I was laughing out loud all by myself on my sofa for about five minutes. I will never again dictate my “Why do I get all the Freaks” type patients without thinking of the transcriptionist [...]
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Today I dug my kayak out from the overgrown brush behind my shed and took it out to a local wildlife preserve that is maintained by the power company. The lake was built as an emergency cooling lake for the steam generated electricity plant nearby, and is really an amazing area that I take for [...]
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There are typified patients that we all dread taking care of and sometimes forget that they are people as well and not just illnesses. Yesterday I had three such encounters, each with a humorous twist that made me laugh. 1) The elderly patient with abdominal pain. We tend to loathe this presentation because old people [...]
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Tonight I saw a woman who was lifeflighted in with an acute inferior myocardial infarction (heart attack). She had been given retavase at the outside hospital, (clot buster) and was now chest pain free. She rolled into the chest pain room directly off the lifeflight gurney and there were about six nurses immediately upon her. [...]
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I wish I could tell stories as well as Dr. Van Hee (Hermes) does. I especially like his constant use of imagery and metaphor for all manners of things (macrame and dreams of waterfalls) seemingly unrelated. Last night’s overdose patient was sent home because no one wanted to file paperwork for involuntary commitment…only 2 persons [...]
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Another great night of medicine and trauma ruined by psych. Now don’t get me wrong, I like a good psych case. Psychotic patients have the greatest stories that you could never make up if you tried. Truly depressed and suicidal patients are straightforward and looking for help. But the patients that out and out lie [...]
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Another flight shift…I was on standby a total of 3 times this afternoon, and we finally got to fly for the 3rd one. I found that my pace picked up dramatically when I thought I was going to leave the department on a flight, or maybe it was the nature of the patients, but I [...]
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