Meanwhile 3

Steven Colbert does a segment on his “A Late Show” that he calls “Meanwhile.” It is a collection of little news items, too small to stand alone as a story on his show. Here is another little “Bad Tad Meanwhile.” A little fact about a patient where there is no more information available or it doesn’t matter. Just weird encounters in the emergency department.

A 46-year-old man working to make a wall of rebar which gave way and fell over, pinning him underneath it. He had a one-inch diameter piece of rebar running through his right biceps. He was soaking wet from the water that was used to cool the metal as it was cut on each side of his arm to free him from the structure.

A 24-year-old lady was driving in reverse in her driveway when she looked in the rear-view mirror and saw her children playing behind the car. She freaked out, jumped out of the car without putting it in park, and was promptly knocked down by the open door. The car also continued and knocked over both of the children, running them over all of them. Fortunately, none was seriously injured.

A group of teens rolled their car while driving in reverse in a parking lot of a shopping mall.

The daughter of my elderly patient with diabetes said, “I woke up and found her on the floor unresponsible.”

A 54-year-old woman was sitting in church when she developed “power in my vagina” which moved up into her heart and caused chest pains.

More Bad Tad Meanwhile next time!