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Insurance cards carry germs too « Hallway Four
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In my hospital, Hallway Four is where the crazy people go. This is a glimpse of their lives and mine. Fingers and tubes in every orifice. Mr Hassle’s Long Underpants. Nightshift, EP Monthly. Ten out of Ten. Friends & Family. Laquo; Falcon Lady. Merry Christmas to all! Insurance cards carry germs too. On December 23, 2007. Betty: Is it okay to go in there? Uh, sure, I don’t see why not. Betty: Well, do I need to wear anything special? Me: What do you mean? Betty: Does he have something contagious? Fill in...
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Falcon Lady « Hallway Four
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In my hospital, Hallway Four is where the crazy people go. This is a glimpse of their lives and mine. Fingers and tubes in every orifice. Mr Hassle’s Long Underpants. Nightshift, EP Monthly. Ten out of Ten. Friends & Family. Laquo; The case of the very happy surgeon. Insurance cards carry germs too. On December 20, 2007. Favorite patient of the holiday season: Falcon Lady”. Found flying around the ED waiting room. This 50 year old lady had a straw hat on with a colorful array of feathers sticking up.
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When they read the textbook « Hallway Four
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In my hospital, Hallway Four is where the crazy people go. This is a glimpse of their lives and mine. Fingers and tubes in every orifice. Mr Hassle’s Long Underpants. Nightshift, EP Monthly. Ten out of Ten. Friends & Family. Laquo; I went to bed skinny and woke up fat. 8220;There was an old lady who swallowed a fly…. When they read the textbook. On December 2, 2007. And fellow physician remarked “how are all of those bacteria living when they’ve eaten up all their food supply? This man had a bad case of ...
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Bright Lights, Cold Steel: am i glowing?
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Bright Lights, Cold Steel. Tuesday, December 18, 2007. The drive in total for that one case was over 90 minutes of x-ray exposure. That's more than the recommended exposure in one month, someone told me. Not to mention the fact that the hospital does not provide leaded glasses to protect our lenses from developing cataracts, which is a known long-term consequence of x-ray exposure. How is that even allowed? Uhm, no, I'm not a junkie at all. Why are you looking at me like that? December 23, 2007 at 1:45 PM.
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Bright Lights, Cold Steel: '07 ---> '08
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Bright Lights, Cold Steel. Monday, December 31, 2007. 07 - - '08. We in the medical field are used to change. We deal with it daily. We expect it. Why else would we admit someone for "serial abdominal exams"? We are ever prepared for the moment when the generalized abdominal pain turns into peritonitis and we're heading down to the operating room. So here's to the new year. Learn what you can from last year and then let it go. Get ready for 2008 - for the planned and the unplanned. Cut on the Dotted Line.
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Bright Lights, Cold Steel: what do you say? part I
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Bright Lights, Cold Steel. Thursday, January 3, 2008. What do you say? Medical school can teach you a lot of things. Most of what they teach, they do very well: pharmacology, anatomy, physiology, pathology. One thing they don't spend much time on is how to deliver bad news. If they do have a one hour lecture devoted to it, consider yourself lucky. But something like that can't be taught in one hour. For some, even a lifetime isn't enough. Once all those spots on both arms are used up, you can try to do s...
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Bright Lights, Cold Steel: hi everybody!
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Bright Lights, Cold Steel. Sunday, January 13, 2008. I'm on trauma call today; I'm about 14 hours in and I've had six already. All moderate blunt traumas. (Meaning not really sick, but needs the activation of the trauma team. Trauma team = surgery trauma service, senior ER resident, x-ray techs. Blunt injury is like a motor vehicle or motorcycle collision. Penetrating is like a stab wound or gunshot wound.). Tonight when they arrived, I exclaimed, "Hi, everybody! January 14, 2008 at 4:41 PM. Be Still, My...
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A Budding Emergencist: November 2006
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006. Woodcut # 29 by Salvador Dalí. This is what CHIEF RESIDENT thinks of me. His evaluation of my first month of surgery-. The falsifiers- alchemists, evil impersonators.counterfeiters, and false witnesses. These sinners, who in life, corrupted all, now are made to endure every sort of corruption and pain. Darkness, dirt, filth, disease, hunger, thirst and noise surround them. I have to repeat a month of surgery. Wait for it.wait for it. Para; 1:27 AM. Links to this post. 4 Incide...
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A Budding Emergencist: December 2006
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Thursday, December 28, 2006. I've enabled word-verification for comments after deleting dozens of spam comments. I had a dream the other night about how to get back at them spam commenters. I thought about becoming a hacker, an uber-h4XX0R, dealing out DOS's attacks to the sites the spams link to. We would be locked in epic combat, me versus the spammers, using ever-more sophisticated tools to punish the wicked spam-commenters and protect the innocent bloggers. Then I woke up. Para; 9:26 PM. Commitment a...
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A Budding Emergencist: January 2007
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Thursday, January 04, 2007. 2006 Medical Weblog Awards are here! I'm not nominated. Like, whatever, man. Who cares about your stupid contest anyway. Next: My interview at North Shore-LIJ. Para; 12:50 PM. Links to this post. Emergency medicine, from the beginning of a new doctor's career. Big City, Metropolis, United States. View my complete profile. March of the Platypi. Panda Bear, M.D. Tales from ER . Straight Talk From ER. Mr Hassel's Long Underpants. Richard Winters, M.D. Diabetic Diet 1 Castellano.
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