Author name: Tad

Bag with Green Stripe

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What do you do with a single short strap of olive green strapping? It came off of an old, discarded […]

Vomiting Bright Red Blood

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Vomiting Blood A 22-year-old man came in saying he had been vomiting blood for several hours. He also had abdominal

Tad Bag in Poland

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  Rafal, a good friend and nurse from the emergency department, sent me these pictures of him visiting his hometown

Pinworms

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A young man came in about 3:00 in the morning worried he had overdosed on medicine for pinworms. He said

Shower Bag

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  I made this bag for my wife to take into the shower with her when we are camping somewhere

Loaded-Up Pretzel Cookies

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  Recipe By: Taste of Home Cookbook Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 cup packed brown sugar

Coffee Malteds

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  Recipe By: All over the Internet Ingredients: 3 cups all-purpose flour ½ cup unflavored malted milk powder 1 teaspoon

My “Cookie Bag”

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For years, I have been taking cookies to the emergency department. Usually, they are stacked in gallon-sized Zip-Lock bags, carried

My Husband Needs Me

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My patient was a 60-year-old woman with lower abdominal pain. Her evaluation led to a CT scan which showed a

WrestleMania

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A thirty-five-year-old man with a history of drug and alcohol abuse as well as mental illness, eloped from a long-term

A Bag for Chile

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My friend, Teresa, is heading to Chile, home of her birth, for a visit. She asked me for a BIG

She Won’t Go Home

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As I come up with stories to share with you, I often pick them to exemplify different challenges we face

Samoa Cookies

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I have made knock-off Samoas before but this is the closest to the real Girl Scout Cookies that I have

Tad Bag for Tad

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I have not made a bag, specifically for myself, for a long time. I recently had my Timbuk2 bag stolen.

Proptosis in a Baby

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After 27 years of working in a big, urban hospital, I switched to a small, community hospital. The biggest adjustment

Stabbed in the Back

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A young man and woman were having an argument. She pulled out a switchblade knife with intentions of using it

The Deadest Person

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The Deadest Person It was the end of my shift and I was just leaving Slidell Memorial Hospital in Louisiana

The Insanity of My Addiction

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The Insanity of My Addiction Paramedics were called to a house where a twenty-six-year-old man was having a severe allergic

Fireballs of the Eucharist

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Fireballs of the Eucharist Early in my emergency medicine training, a woman came in screaming because of severe abdominal pain.

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