Archive for May, 2007
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Waffle-Master
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ED docs and radiologists have a strange relationship. For that matter, I guess most docs have a strange relationship with their radiologists. The radiologist sits in a dark cave (as opposed to the well-lit cave favored by pathologists) or at home in front of a high-resolution video monitor, reads films and scans, reports back to […]
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New Worst Names Ever
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Seen recently in our ED (names slightly altered, but you get the picture) …
William Caramel GlazeRainyday SmithHeavenlee JonesXxZavyier Frank
Mug shots available soon from the local police… it’s inevitable.
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You’ll Shoot Your Hand Off
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A Haiku:
NAIL GUN. SAFETY FIRST!
“WHERE THE HELL IS THE TRIGGER“?
‘POW’! “DAMN-SHIT-FUCK-DAMN”!
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Double Protection
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Well, his first mistake was driving drunk. His second mistake was crashing his car. His third mistake was spitting on everyone and fighting with the paramedics and with us. His fourth mistake was continuing with the fighting and spitting and writhing around on the board. His fifth mistake was crashing his car in a town […]
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At Her Bohemian Road Nurse Majesty’s Request- 911Doc’s Meme
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My dear friend Bohemian Road Nurse has ‘tagged me with a meme’. From her website I gleaned the following…
The rules of the meme are as follows:You simply list eight random facts/habits about yourself. And feel free to write a little bit about those things if you’d like
Tagging me means that ETOTHEIPI and Schrodinger’s Cat are […]
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Secret Location (Mini Confab)
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I Will be joining Schrodinger’s Cat at the secret location in the Nevada desert. I expect to do some jackalope hunting and give money away to rich people. Report to follow.
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Secret location
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To whom it may concern
I will be gone next week to a secret location in the Nevada desert for further medical training. As I understand it there is no electricity there and therefore no computers. I have heard tales of gambling and debauchery, but I am sure these are just tall tales. I expect to […]
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The "Vanishing Probe" Sign
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If you come in to my ED after placing a shotgun over your heart and pulling the trigger AND I take the ultrasound probe (pictured here on a very nice sonosite machine) to look for heart activity AND, after taking off the bandage that covers the wound, the ultrasound probe DISAPPEARS into your right and […]
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Crisis
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The American mainstream media operates in a perpetual crisis mode. The planet is sick, Anna Nicole dies, bombs here, bombs there, climate change, cell phones cause cancer, eat this, don’t eat that etc… Nevertheless, as you can see from reading this and other blogs about Emergency Medicine in the United States today (most notably Charity […]
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Be Alert (for me strangling someone)
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I went into the ICU last night to intubate a patient for the surgeon and I saw this sign on the door to the patient’s room. Now I know crap like this exists in every workplace and it is generated by some well-meaning safety nannies, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it. […]
