I just looked at my monthly blog hits…they’ve risen every month since I started the blog last June 1st. Month one was about 100 visits, and last month was about 3000! If I continue to get 3000 hits per month, my yearly projection would be 36,000 visits per year, or the same number if visits [...]
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I was the pain clinic today in the ED. I think every single one of my patients that I saw today was in the ED because of pain. I didn’t do much productive for any of them. Back pain, Tooth pain, Neck pain, Arm pain x 2 (one right, one left), scrotal pain. No one [...]
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Now that Dr. Gene’s ’05 (?’04) is selling his own mugs on Blogborygmi, and Hermes is selling “Trust Me I’m Your Doctor” Thongs…I think that Doc Shazam needs some paraphanalia. I need a logo. Can anyone help? Patients say funny things that I write down sometimes to provide a chuckle when I think I’ll need [...]
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There are certainly more productive things I could be doing right now, seeing as I am taking Step 3 of the US Medical Liscensing Exam this coming week (a 2 day 8,000,000 question exam). But as my parents can attest, under times of academic stress, I frequently regress to more childish endeavors, such as drawing [...]
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Last night as I lay awake in bed, wired from the medrol dose-pack I’m taking for sciatic nerve inflammation due to raking gravel to fill in my driveway’s mud and ice holes, I reviewed my folder of Pulmonary Embolism articles. I learned a few things. First, there is no single algorithm accepted as the standard [...]
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First day back in the ED in 2 months felt a little like my very first day in the ED. I forgot how to order lab tests, get x-rays, do a focused H&P, smooth talk consultants… But I did “fix” at least one person today. An unfortunate man with an infected knee and a “Peripherally [...]
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