Archive for April, 2006
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Thing Update
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18 hours of meticulous surgery later I believe this gentleman’s hand is saved. As to function, time will tell. The hand is incredibley complicated with many musculotendinous connections, multiple vascular structures, and nerves. Most run in their own special compartments within the wrist. I can’t begin to describe the complexity of this surgery. The gentleman […]
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Thing
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Remeber the Adam’s Family tv show and the “character” Thing? The ambulatory hand that lived in a box? I recently saw a patient who had severed his hand cleanly from his arm. He managed to tourniquet the bleeding stump and come to the ED. When we got the hand it looked just like Thing… was […]
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Dr. Doom Dipshit’s email address
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Here’s Dr. Doom’s email address…get him! pianka@mail.utexas.edu
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Dr. Doom
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So there’s this hippie-crunchy prof. at U of Texas who is actively cheering for a worldwide ebola outbreak. Click on the “Dr. Doom” title above to read about him. This guy is a dangerous misanthropic clown. I offer a few insights from the MD side about an ebola pandemic not so much based on hard […]
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Good Day
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Once in a while you get a ‘thank you’ that means a lot. I took care of a teenager three weeks ago who had collapsed in his bedroom after coming home from school. His dad, just returned from Afghanistan, carried him to his car and drove like crazy to the ED. He had a spontaneous […]
