Archive for June, 2008
A possible change of heart….
Over the years I have learned that there are some things in medicine I do not want to mess with.
I am seriously considering going to chiropractic school. If I go, and hate my job, I could easily go back to school to get my MD.
It would eliminate the competition to get into medical school, a [...]
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no amount of toothpaste…..
I must have pica because I ate an entire tin of wintergreen altoids while I was at work today.
I am pretty sure that in this quantity Altoids are not considered a food substance.
I am quite confident that this will give me an ulcer and combined with the stress of applying to medical school will lead [...]
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When you (with your associates degree) proceed to attempt to degrade me (with my BS) you only make yourself look like an ass.
Don’t get me wrong, I value your experience, but no one, and I mean NO ONE, has the right to be condescending to anyone else. And please remember that I have quite a [...]
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My Iron Man
I am throwing Mr. Engineer an Iron Man party for his birthday. He doesn’t know it yet.
He is however, my super hero.
Happy Birthday Iron Man.
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Altruism.
I get it, socialized health care = altruism.
Truth is it doesn’t work.
It is a harsh reality. One that I do not stomach well.
There seems to be 2 schools of thought.
The first being the altruistic one. The (possibly naive) idea that we can simply help people because they need help. Health care is a human right, [...]
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Tags: socialized health care, The Health Care Mess, Things you don't learn in school
Just a little burnt out
Sorry for the lull. I’ve been just a little burnt lately. I have however decided some things that I will blog all about shortly.
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disgusted.
I just saw the dark side of medicine.
And frankly if I can’t change it, I don’t know if I want to be a part of it.
People who need help and can’t get it, people who don’t need help and get treated extra special, doctors who just don’t care and patients who just want someone to [...]
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Tags: Some things they don't teach in school, The future of medicine, The Health Care Mess
PCP (primary care premed)
OK people.
Here is the deal, if you call me with a chief complaint of…
vaginal bleeding suspect for an ectopic pregnancy, pcn allergic reaction, shooting arm/chest pain, 3rd degree burns, or a child with febrile illness and lethargy*
I might come check it out, but ultimately I am going to send you to the ER, I may [...]
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Tags: Not Medical Advice
On the line.
I think sometimes we take for granted the fact that people in the emergency medicine department (including EMTs) put their lives on the line on a regular basis.
Let’s just say our ED (including a group I was with) was involved in a situation containing rival Deborah Peels, about 200 angry family members (some with weapons), [...]
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Tags: Drug Seeking, ER Medicine, Lessons Learned, Some things they don't teach in school, Violence
New Employee Check List
get 2 TB tests that bleed all over the place, no bandaid for you, it might squeeze out the TB juice
get picture taken, then get picture taken again, because you were in front of the wrong background
swear on your life that you will eventually be suicidal, and switch businesses, because HIPPA laws prohibit you from [...]
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Tags: Medicine, The Health Care Mess
Quote of the Day- Amelia Earhart"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
- Amelia Earhart
