I had already decided before I went to medical school that I didn’t want to be a doctor for the rest of my life. Maybe I should say I didn’t want to be JUST a doctor. I have too many other intersts and pasttimes to devote myself entirely to medicine. Lately I’ve been trying to [...]
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The other night I was called urgently to the ICU. A 20 year old girl had arrived intubated from a nearby hospital. She had about a week of pain in her side and the night before had vomiting and diarrhea. At the outside hospital, she was hypotensive and tachycardic. She received a total of 5 [...]
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Reviewing my referral logs lets me know what web sites are sending traffic my way. Freqeuntly they are other blog sites, many of them are ‘unkown’ which usually means that my site is typed in directly by my many fans. Probably about 10-20% of my daily visits are the results of searches on yahoo, google [...]
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Bard-Parker share his recent trauma resucitation in stark contrast to my recent post about simple interventions. (if you’re having browser problems, scroll down for the post titled “Lines, Tubes and saving lives”) Interestingly, I was consulted last night on a patient similarly as ill as the one in his post. More on her tomorrow if [...]
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The other night on call, I was just about to stop foot out the door when I got a page from the operator. Double trauma en route by ground, ETA about 1 minute. I ran to the Trauma Bay with the cheif, barely had time to gown and dress when the first one rolled in. [...]
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During my trauma rotation, while I am on call, I am the house surgeon on call for consults. Any other service, resident or discharged patient who needs to speak to a surgeon talks to me first. The other night I got called for a man with a failing kidney transplant whose developed a clot in [...]
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I ran my first trauma the other day. My intern and I met down at the trauma bay in the emergency department for a patient that was found down by the side of the road next to his car. No eyewitnesses. He was intubated at the scene for respiratory distress, the medics thought he had [...]
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Hi Mom & Dad. I am still sick, if you were wondering. I started myself on antibiotics today, since it’s been over 10 days and I still have junk dripping from my sinuses. Sorry I couldn’t talk longer this weekend, there was no cell phone reception where I was.
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Finally, the day I’ve been looking forward to since my first day of surgery as a 3rd year medical student: The day I run the service! Remember how much I ranted about having to look up labs, fill out morning progress notes and collect data for the attendings to look at? Well today, for the [...]
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Today was my first day of trauma surgery. It was the first time I’ve had a voice since my post on laryngitis. I havn’t been able to get more than 3 hours of sleep due to coughing fits and crud running down my throat everytime I lay my head down. I finally bought some nyquil. [...]
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