Archive for November, 2007
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Poop Strong?
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Monkey Girl, up on all things internet, has brought to my attention a cause that we at M.D.O.D. can support. We have given up on the ‘take back the night’ marches, and the ‘race for the cure’ runs, and the ‘wear a ribbon against war’ fad. Here is something all of us here are interested […]
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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I’ve been patting myself on the back so hard the last few days I feel like an auto-erotic respiratory therapist. Here’s the story:
A young guy comes in to our clinic with some complaints of who-knows-the-fuck-what (I’m a pathologist, do you actually think I know the patient’s history? Please.). Anyhoo, he gets a needle biopsy of […]
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New Zealand
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New Zealand has a socialized medical system. It’s a lot like the U.K.’s or Canada’s. Do you want this? Just askin’.
P.S. Thanks to an ‘anonymous’ comment in the prior light-hearted post we are back to the business of being a purely medical blog and fun will no longer be allowed. We are all physicians here, […]
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Apocalypto
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Comments have been made here that the apocalypse is nigh. They have had to do with the college football season. This morning, while innocently watching ESPN SC Rundown, I saw, what I count, as the third clear sign of the apocalypse.
Brad Daugherty, formerly of UNC Tarheel basketball fame (and some who-cares NBA pro fame), was […]
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Your Tax Dollars at Work… EMS Style (plus bonus feature!)
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Click title and take some phenergan before watching (thanks Brian and Jennifer and Monkey Girl).
And just to continue the theme, this patient comes to every ER in the country. Oh, and this one.
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Momma’s in Triage
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I joke around with my nurses about this, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Put my mom in triage, and watch the ED become an ED again. You know, like the old days on Emergency when they would wheel into Rampart with a diaphoretic construction worker they had just […]
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q D
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I committed an unpardonable sin tonight.
While in a hurry to write orders on a patient with community acquired pneumonia, I ordered “Levaquin 750mg IV q D”. The “D” of course meaning “Day” as it has for for the 17 years I have been writing it, and the 40 or 50 years other docs have been […]
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I’d Rather Do it For Free
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Thanks to GruntDoc for bringing this article to my attention. ERs are closing and some of the reasons why may surprise you.
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Hypertension
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I am curious and would like comment from others.
One of my PET PEEVES (and yes, there are a lot of them) is blood pressure. We get these people all day long sent to the ED because their blood pressure is “high”. A few weeks ago, the dental assistant wasn’t going to even let […]
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A new one for me!
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After this long you’d think I’ve seen almost everything. Yesterday EMS calls bringing in a trauma victim from a PLANE CRASH! Say what??!! A freakin’ single engine plane crash! I’ve never seen a plane crash victim/survivior! Guy was pretty FUBAR, but will live..No great pics, just the usual assortment of broken […]
