Sunday, October 26, 2014

Random ortho fact of the day:
Sir Robert Jones, of the "Jones fracture" namesake, developed an interest in fractures of the fifth metatarsal after sustaining that injury while, um...


(In the pre-op area)

Me (trying to be friendly with the patient): "Dude, you busted up your forearm pretty good. How'd you do it?"
Patient: "Just jumping off a ledge. It was stupid."
Me: "That sucks, were you doing parkour or something?"
Patient: "Trying to commit suicide."
Me:...


Thursday, October 23, 2014

I had a short TFN nail where the interlock screw that was placed THROUGH THE JIG missed the nail.  I asked the rep, and he said it was 'probably user error'...











Love you dave.

One of my co-residents had me mix a packet of honey and packet of tabasco sauce and put it on the chicken strips here at the hospital...


Monday, October 20, 2014

Sunday, October 19, 2014

The attending after drilling the distal interlock screw for a tibial nail, and having arterial blood shoot out of the depth gauge...

Saturday, October 18, 2014

We took a patient to the OR for a trauma, and when we rolled him over to put the sliding board underneath him, a baggie of cocaine fell out from between his buttcheeks...


When I haven't eaten anything all day, and the nurses are having a potluck for someone that's leaving...


Friday, October 17, 2014

I had a patient that felt like we were abusing him for not giving him oral dilaudid to go home on after a small surgery...


Sunday, October 12, 2014

Trying to get a hug from my wife after returning home from a rather bloody consult in the ED...


What I feel like after telling a patient they're going to get drug tested on the day of surgery for meth in a couple weeks, and cancelled if it's positive.
And then they show up for surgery 2 weeks later and test positive for meth...


My thoughts after putting on a splint with a female med student and accidentally calling her "sweetie"...




Thursday, October 9, 2014

What i feel like holding the scalpel before a case i haven't studied for...


Wednesday, October 8, 2014

My reaction after a patient said in the morning, "Doctor, so good to see you, I almost forgot what you looked like, I've been dreaming about you all night.."


Had a patient the other day who started by going: "You know what actually caused the ebola outbreak, right? It's the same people that caused the AIDS epidemic..."


Getting a page at 2330 when I'm not on call...


What I feel now whenever an attending scrubs into a case...

Monday, October 6, 2014

So we had a patient come in with an ankle fracture that was a polytrauma, intubated in the ED. I went up to do the secondary exam, walked in the room and introduced myself to a teary eyed family. I explained that I was the bone doctor, and that I didn't know a lot about the other systems, but knew a lot about the bones and needed to do an exam to make sure nothing was dislocated or frankly broken. I examined the still intubated patient, ranging all the joints, etc. At the end, I told the family that the patient did have an ankle fracture, but that we would be managing it without surgery and that they had (and i quote verbatim) "other priorities that are higher on the list than their ankle." They nodded and I walked out.
And that's when the nurse informed me that the patient expired 30 minutes ago...