Archive for July, 2008
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Maxima Culpa
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Who is to blame?
This is the current situation as I see it: Many doctors are unhappy; many patients are unhappy; many hospitals are failing financially. So, who is to blame?
I’m not a doom and gloom guy. I actually love my job. When I go to the hospital, I truly feel like I do something good […]
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Reasons I’m Leaving Emergency Medicine (number 7)
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It’s not M*A*S*H
It’s not even close.
I first noticed this in medical school. Don’t get me wrong… there were plenty of “Hawkeyes” and “Trappers”, but the medical school administration at my rather prestigious school was in the avant of the new guard, and was politically correct from their perfectly trimmed toenails to their Ivy League pedigrees, […]
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The Psych Running Club
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THE PSYCH RUNNING CLUB
I was generously invited to comment (and perhaps add some XX levity) to the motley crew known as the MDOD. I’m honored since the word “douchebag” doesn’t really come immediately to mind for me…
Ah well, nonetheless, let me tell you of a motivational little story. I work as an ED doc at […]
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Welcome QuiXXote
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Dear Readers,
There have been a few comments here and there that MDOD needs a feminine presence. We like our caveman antics just fine thank you! But, when a woman who basically kicks ass in every way asks to join our little fraternity AND she likes football AND has a sense of humor then we dispense […]
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Direct Fullfillment (thirty years after Monty Python’s Cheese Shop)
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“Direct Fulfillment” is a doublespeak phrase… I just learned from the local AT&T store yesterday.
I hereby nominate it to stand alongside the best produced by JCHAO, EMTALA, and HIPAA as award winning, pricey, mindless drivel. It’s much funnier when Monty Python does it as above.
Me: Hi, do you have the new I phone?
Sales Rep: We […]
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Listen Up
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After receiving approval to run our impromptu poll on our site from our institutional review board, and after thorough statistical analysis, we have discovered, WOW, that nurses and doctors are terribly unhappy at with their respective professions. I give you the results of the MDOD poll… “Are Providers Quitting?”.
Out of 123 respondents 10% are planning […]
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Out of Things to Worry About?
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People actually get paid for this shit.
Visit our home site here.
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Doesn’t it always turn out like this??
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Some decades ago, soon after finishing residency, I had what is still my “best save”..We all have one.
Sunday evening in the ED. Call comes in on a hot load, victim of drunk driver on the interstate.
The patient was a 30ish male. Completely FUBAR. Bilateral flails, pnuemo’s, EVERY long bone in body broken, pelvic diastasis with […]
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And the Bow Sinks to the Waterline
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A friend emailed me this. Let me take a wild flying guess at what happened here. Some poor soul got drunk or had been drinking. He was hurting and was convinced by family to go to the ER. This might have been at the advice of his physician who didn’t have an afternoon appointment available […]
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Hey Idiots, Volume 2
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Stop clogging my computer with stories about measles outbreaks. This is not news. This is hairy armpit dip shit granola f**kers dragging their snotty-nosed unvaccinated spawn into Whole Foods and interacting with other pseudo-intellectual numb-nuts who thought it would be cool to raise their little Moonbeam “vaccine free” after watching Jenny McCarthy on […]
