Me: "Hey man, so you've tested positive for meth a couple of times already. If this one comes back positive, we're going to have to put off your surgery for a while. Have you used recently?"
Patient:
When when of my co-residents asks how the day went after a patient lost 4 liters of blood...
Sunday, May 24, 2015
After struggling for a half hour to get a clavicle malunion back out to length...
Saturday, May 23, 2015
We have new PA's that we work with that take overnight call. This is currently how I spend most of my mornings during their sign out...
Patient: "My heel pain started like 10 years ago when I was in a motorcycle accident. The bone was fractured, but luckily it wasn't broken."
Me:
