Archive for April, 2007
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Lady With Sheets and Other Stuff
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Had a good one the other day. This lady came in with her husband with symptoms of something which turned out to be nothing. He was sort of an over bearing type and, although she had genuine medical problems, was also a card carrying hypochondriac. I saw the card.
But the point of the story is […]
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Suggestions for Those Placed Under Arrest
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I had a fine young citizen brought in by the police recently for “clearance for jail”. He had a little laceration on his brow delivered either by the arresting officer or the ground, and had been pepper-sprayed. He was, well, a little drunk. Funny how those things seem to go together, drinking and trouble with […]
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You’ll Shoot Your Knee Out
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Nail guns. It’s construction season and in the last three weeks I’ve seen three nail-gun injuries. This guy above had to be taken to the operating room to remove this nail from his lower thigh. Luckily it didn’t hit anything important. The reason I couldn’t get it out in ED was that the head […]
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You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out
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Young Ralphie Parker wanted a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas and he eventually got one (click the title of the post to read about Ralphie). He nearly shot his eye out as his mother and his teacher (Miss Shields) had warned.
I took care of a young man recently who was shot in the eye […]
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Spacer
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I need to put a nothing post in between the last and the next so we can resume our light banter in a decorous fashion. Today in the ED I saw nothing interesting except a sweet little girl with her hand stuck in a decorative vase. The vase enclosed the whole arm almost up the […]
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Virginia Tech Massacre
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I hesitate to even write this post but to the extent that I can bring a bit of a medical perspective to the massacre in Blacksburg then maybe I can be forgiven.
First. As someone who works very closely with EMS and less so with the police, and as someone who knows a whole lot about […]
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The Pants Tell the Whole Story
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Can the smartest woman in the world fix health care? Not if she chose these pants. “Woof, woof!”
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Ode
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Just a quick post for my coffeehouse fans:
I just love it when some tech or nurse comes up to me, oh, at 3:00 a.m. in the middle of a hellish shift and says “look at the bright side, you only have 4 more hours”. This is the equivalent to saying to someone “look […]
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Fun With Feet
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Free piece of advice (sort of like 80% of my professional advice): if you have diabetes and you get a boo-boo on your foot, even if it doesn’t hurt, get it taken care of. Do NOT let the wound get infected and eat into the bone, that is, unless you really enjoy hopping.
Got a foot […]
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Charity Doc Taking a Breather
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A fellow ER doc has had enough (at least for a while). Click on the above title to read about our friend at Fingers and Tubes in Every Orifice and the nit-picky, incessant crap that has forced him to take a break from medicine. We have covered the same ground here but it can’t be […]
