Wednesday, June 5, 2013

ED attending: 'So if you want, my scribe can write up your consult for you...'














Followed immediately by...




So an ED nurse wrote me up for taking a kid out of traction that was digging into his crotch....without....sedation...

Monday, June 3, 2013

I sometimes get hit on at work, pretty much exclusively by female patients over the age of 75.  Regardless, I still feel like this...



 Last night while I was interviewing a patient, the woman in the bed next to us had a round of (what sounded like forced) flatulence.  This is what I pictured...


I got scolded by a peds ED nurse for not consciously sedating a kid that needed his near amputated fingers only irrigated...