Edu-ma-cation

08Jul08

Seriously, how is it that some “health care professionals” can be so slow?

I was in a class today that took up 4 hours of my life teaching the cardiac conduction system. When asked “are you sure you haven’t taken this class” (twice), the answer in my head was “like monkeys we can use tools, and one of those tools is a book, which one can pick up and read, making them privy to a world of new information, including the things you are teaching in this so called class”. But in the interest of being professional I simply smiled and said I had some time to read up on it.

Anyhow, taking several mini classes including ACLS and PALS because I am “going to confuse those in the BLS renewal class”. It is nice to see how my science education ties into my medical education. By the end of the summer I should have a good amount of new credentials.

Fun fact for the day, my “most searched” topic is “good poop“, which is slightly less amusing than “VIP spanking” which was last weeks favorite (and I am really not sure how that happened).

Also I wound up a patient in my own damn ER. Seriously. And lemme tell ya, I did not want to be there, AND I found out that one of our ER docs charted what he wanted to chart (including the opposite answer to my questions, and a physical exam that wasn’t preformed).  Horrible headache and neck stiffness, you better believe I would have gotten an LP before sending MY patient home with scripts to treat a “neck sprain”. Gross oversight buddy, especially since the incidence of meningitis has been so high lately. And seriously don’t give me a funny look when I refuse narcotics, I don’t like the way they make me feel and more often than not a prescription dose of some random NSAIDs do the trick.

Filed under: Lessons Learned, Medicine, The Health Care Mess   |  
Tags: meningitis, neck sprain, my own er, good poop