Between the cacophony of drunken screams, schizophrenic ideations, and demented geriatric anger i wonder when this crazy EM world took over so many of my nights. At 3AM the ED staff themsleves seem to become giddy; probably from some circadian chemical reflex arc that should only exist during sleep. In these moments I recognize how intimately my life [...]
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**Some details have been altered to protect the confidentiality of true patients, however the rest remains the truth as I have experienced it**
Doctors and nurses in my Community Emergency Department (ED) knew Wild Bill as well as anyone. The ED certainly saw him more frequently than many of his family and friends.
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Ok, I don’t actually spend a lot of time in Taco Bell, but when a chualupa calls sometimes you just gotta answer. It seems like every business I visit utilizes technology better than hospitals and emergency departments (ED’s). It is a sad day for medicine when every fast food restaurant in the [...]
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This letter appeared in the July 2008 publication of Emergency Medicine News 30(7): 3, 33 in response to a column written by Dr. Leap
I am a 30-something EP practicing for five years in California. I also spent a couple of years on the East Coast. It really is a jungle out there in the ED [...]
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Four doctors went on a duck hunting trip: a surgeon, an internist, a
pathologist and an emergency physician.
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Happy Valentine's from Lou Lewis, RN