Archive for January, 2008
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Watch your Language
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I had a moment today that would make Etotheipi proud.
Our head nurse was talking with some tight assed looking lady as I started my shift this am. The tight ass looked like a typical clip-board carrying high heeled nurse that only appears in the daylight.
About the same time I got to the desk, one of […]
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The Pus Palace
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OK8TZ-OV7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXfMA5WEODc
Youtube won’t let me imbed the above posts.
Conversations with an anon (hopefully a future named and useful contributer to our humble blog) made me wonder.
Years ago, when we first started seeing MRSA, we went through tons of positive cultures. By the time the cultures returned, the patients were better. So, many of us decided […]
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Tanner Food
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To compensate for my boring informational post, I thought I’d include one a bit more humorous.
Being the twit that I am, I was in my scrubs the other night after a long shift and I was searching in our refrigerator for something to eat. (refer to dumbass anonymous post in Emergency Physician = Bartender)
I found […]
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Network Docs
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WARNING: This isn’t a funny or fascinating post….it’s informational and boring.
A few years ago, our CMG (contract management group) decided to go “out of network” on all health plans. That meant that any patient who was obligated to use our hospital by their insurance would still get a full charge from us.
I didn’t […]
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Emergency Physician = Bartender?
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Years ago when I was young I was a bartender in a cool place. I was also a bouncer who got by on my height and weight alone as I have no training in that area. I basically do the same thing now. The pay is better, but my customers are the same.
I was at […]
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Outcome?
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What do you think would happen if I pointed a 12 gauge shotgun at my foot and pulled the trigger? Well, now the patient has a BKA and now he knows what would happen.
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Dance Your Way to Disability
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Great comedy is borne of tragedy. So says the Bible (or Shakespeare or someone important). What is shitty comedy borne of? Pitiful comedy? Absurd comedy? Perhaps it is born as the love-child of stupidity and laziness?
Patient (smiling and chatting with friend in room while flailing arms and legs; sitting on bed without falling off): “I […]
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How’d They Get This Past HIPPA?
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Found this little gem of a video on my favorite college football blog, Every Day Should Be Saturday, it shows the effects of PCP on a young, stupid human, and the effect of the young stupid human on the doctors and nurses of an Emergency Department somewhere. There is always a patient much like this […]
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn…or something.
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We get a lot of colon biopsies to look at. This is due to a huge effort by all the professional societies involved in gastroenterology to shove a tube up everyone’s ass. It serves a dual purpose: screen for cancer and make GI scope-jockeys incredibly rich. I’m all for it.
The Japanese have led the charge […]
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Presbycusis and Dementia
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A couple of nights ago, they brought in a 92 year old man from a nearby geriatric psych unit. He had fallen and sustained a 2cm laceration on his face. The poor old guy was deaf as a door nail, and presumably quite demented since he was an inpatient at the psych […]
