Author: Tad
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How Long Have You Been in the Hospital?
One night, I had an amazing patient. It is hard to do justice in a note like this just how amazingly bizarre he was. He came in by police at about 6:00 in the morning. I sat and listened for maybe half an hour while he told me his story. He developed complications of gastric…
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I Have Lice
The other night the paramedics brought in a woman with burns on most of her scalp. The medics said when they got to the residence, the patient was screaming hysterically. They could see a fire had been burning in the fireplace and some partially burned wood was scattered out onto the hearth. The fire appeared…
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What is that Smell?
The medics told us he was about sixty years old and lived in his car. He had gotten out of the car and collapsed, unable to get back up. He was apparently on the ground for several hours before passersby discovered him. The medics said they had tried to get all his clothes off but…
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The Man Didn’t Die
I had a forty-year-old man come in with perfuse rectal bleeding. He had a polyp removed from his colon two days before. He said there was no problem during the procedure but he had spent the next night in the hospital for some reason and just gone home twelve hours before he rolled into Room…
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Bags with Flowers
My daughter made the bag with the yellow flower and the braided strap. I copied her idea and made the one with the orange flower.