Another reason I like my job
Colleagues I can call on and count on.
Recently I was the 11p doc in my ED (the overnight shift), and I knew what my evening had in store when Colleague/suspect1 said “It’s been slow all day”. Oy.
At 11:03P the charge nurse (who deserves a Medal for her actions that night) said ‘you’re getting a level 1 medical and two level 1 trauma transfers in the next five minutes’, and that was in addition to the waterfall of regular patients who heard the word ‘slow’ and ran like very sick possessed zombies to our ED.
The medical was a great case I would have loved had I had no other du...
Source: GruntDoc - June 19, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Emergency Source Type: blogs
Happy Fathers’ Day, dad
Thanks for not strangling me, even when I deserved it.
Germany, 1976ish
It was the first pizza any of us had had to use a fork for, which is (I think) the reason for the bemusement.
Anyway, happy Fathers’ day.
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Source: GruntDoc - June 15, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Family Source Type: blogs
ED patient: word to the wise
If your driver has a personality disorder, it will reflect on you. It’s unavoidable.
please ask them to wait for you in the waiting room. Or in the car. Or on Venus.
(EMS not included).
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Source: GruntDoc - June 14, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Emergency Source Type: blogs
Definition of cold: Killing a Patient to Save His Life – NYTimes.com
For the record, I’m all for this, providing it pans out in trials…
PITTSBURGH — Trauma patients arriving at an emergency room here after sustaining a gunshot or knife wound may find themselves enrolled in a startling medical experiment.
Surgeons will drain their blood and replace it with freezing saltwater. Without heartbeat and brain activity, the patients will be clinically dead.
And then the surgeons will try to save their lives.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have begun a clinical trial that pushes the boundaries of conventional surgery — and, some say, medical ethics.
By ind...
Source: GruntDoc - June 11, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Emergency Source Type: blogs
Tesla Supercharger in San Marcos, TX
Got to visit this supercharger on a recent trip, thought this might be useful.
The map is a touch odd (I came in from the North):
Yes, it gets you to the right area, it’s just a touch odd…
Turn left (North) here:
It’s about 1/2 a mile behind the mall from the turn. It was completely empty when I arrived, one other charging when I left (didn’t meet them):
And as you’d expect, the car was completely charged before we finished our salads. Nice place!
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Source: GruntDoc - June 2, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Travel Source Type: blogs
Happy Anniversary!
Our youngest and her husbands’ first anniversary!
Congrats to you both, from all of us.
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Source: GruntDoc - June 2, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Family Source Type: blogs
33 Charts — medicine. health. social media.
Well put!
After a recent presentation on social physicians, someone asked why there were so many emergency medicine physicians on blogs and social media? Good question. From content to conversation, ER docs are heavily represented in public spaces. And it’s as much about passion and participation as raw numbers on any given platform.
What is it about emergency medicine physicians that has lead them to flex their muscles and reach out beyond the confines of their emergency centers?
via 33 Charts — medicine. health. social media..
Yrs. Trly. gets a mention.
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Source: GruntDoc - June 1, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: MedBloggers Source Type: blogs
You Can’t Yelp Your Doctor – The Daily Beast
Some of the country’s best doctors have the worst patient satisfaction scores. Here’s why.Part of being a doctor is learning to suppress your feelings. You get good at being what people need you to be. But it slowly transforms you into something you couldn’t have foreseen—a sort of Stepford doctor—pleasing everyone with your perfect smile and agreeable demeanor, hoping that your patient satisfaction survey will be favorable, no matter the cost.
Press Ganey is one of the top providers of patient satisfaction surveys, according to the Forbes article, Why Rating Your Doctor Is Bad For Your Health.The government has ...
Source: GruntDoc - May 27, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Policy Source Type: blogs
Squirrel season
It’s on. Three shots, three hits, 40 yards.
Air rifle is a TalonSS made by AirForce AirGuns right here in Fort Worth, Texas!
They were filled with water only, I’m not a barbarian.
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Source: GruntDoc - May 18, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Amusements Shooting Source Type: blogs
Google Glass handed out to medical students at UC Irvine – CNET
I have a question.
The fledgling Google Glass is slowly working its way into the mainstream, and one place that people should get used to seeing the device is in hospitals.
Several medical institutions have already been testing the computer-enabled eyeglasses to see if the devices enhance doctors’ work. But the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, is taking it one step further by issuing Google Glass to its students.
Irvine will be the first medical school to fully incorporate Glass into its four-year curriculum. Its first- and second-year students will use the device in their anatomy and clin...
Source: GruntDoc - May 16, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Medical Source Type: blogs
My first tweet
The inauspicious beginning:
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This is why the War on Squirrels started
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My new ER, in a video
It’s really well done.
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Source: GruntDoc - March 6, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Announcements Source Type: blogs
