There is a slow transformation taking place. It’s not something I can feel, but something I notice occasionally when I am writing orders, dictating a chart, presenting a patient, or talking to a consultant. It is becoming easier and easier to communicate with my colleagues. I can write orders without looking up dosages in my [...]
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One of our graduates from last year sent us some of her birthday cake from yesterday…via helicopter! The chopper was bringing us a patient, so she just loaded up a care package along with the rest of the crew. Yummy!
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I wish I could tell you exactly what it was like and tell you everything about her, but I can’t. I don’t know anything about her. I felt like I wasn’t even really there today. When she first rolled in the trauma room, complete silence enveloped us, rather than chaos, which is the norm. Wisps [...]
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I finally went through all of Mr. Hassle’s archives, and most of my favorite posts are listed in the sidebar with a few marked as “classics”, or one’s that especially struck me. Of the classics, my all time favorites in terms of good writing and emotional content are “Out of Mind” and “Sinking Feeling”. If [...]
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Most fun case last night…10 % body surface area burns to a drunk who threw kerosine on his wood stove while standing in his un dies and socks. My staff docs only criticism of my case presentation was, “Next time, cover up the urine stained u n d e r wear for me. It was [...]
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What Famous Leader Are You? When I took the test with only 9 questions, I came out Bill Clinton. That scared me, although it’s probably better than being GWB. So I took it with 18 questions and ended up Abe. When I took it with the full 45 questions, I became JFK. Someone who knows [...]
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I caught myself with a furrowed brow and my arms crossed tightly across my chest. I had stopped listening to the woman’s story as soon as the first words were out of her mouth. I must have looked angry. A slow, dull pounding sensation in my head began growing stronger and stronger until I could [...]
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Little 4 year old daryl came into the ED, dressed in his superhero underwear with blood covering the right side of his face. It looked bad. The nurse said it looked bad. She couldn’t even get close enough to clean it up. The nurse suggested I’d need to use conscious sedation, but when I walked [...]
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Out there I should say… Is anyone reading? What’s your favorite Mr. Hassle post so I can put it in my sidebar? Bonus points if you can name the song/artist that the above line is from.
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Continuing with yesterday’s exercise of visualizing things that went well today: Worked out Made appointment for cats’ shots. Diagnosed phenytoin toxicity. Admitted hypoxic patient Saved a four year old from a lifelong facial scar. (I’ll leave out the part about how he screamed at the top of his lungs for 20 minutes before I ever [...]
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