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A Wild Night in the Accident Room I did my emergency medicine residency training at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. […]

Frequently people with complicated past medical histories come into the emergency department for care. If they have an organized list

The other morning, I had to take care of three penises before lunch. That was an unusual concentration of penis

In honor of Halloween, I wanted to share a case that came into Charity Hospital when I was resident there.

A woman from Utah was visiting a friend in New Orleans when they had some sort of a falling out.

A.L. was a 65-year-old man who came in complaining of having been assaulted. This was not any ordinary assault. It

The other night, a woman rushed in asking for help getting her injured boyfriend out of the car. She said

A 15-year-old boy got in trouble at football practice. As punishment, his coach sentenced him to do 150 pushups over

I was working in the Accident Room of Charity Hospital in New Orleans. A young man came in complaining of

Two people came in an ambulance together. He was twenty-eight, she was twenty-six. They were put in the same room

The other night, an overhead announcement in the emergency department caught my attention: “Dr. Tad to Room 11, STAT! Dr.

I recently went mountain biking in Moab, Utah. Unfortunately, I fell just as our ride was starting. It was soon

One night this week, one of my physician assistants came to me frustrated that the patient he had gone to

A sixty-year-old woman came in by ambulance. The nurse entered “abdominal pain, flank pain” as the chief complaint. The nurse

Some people really want their doctor to know the exact details of their symptoms. This often leads to extended written

A young woman brought her brother in for psychiatric evaluation. She told me he had been acting strangely and gave

A telephone call came into the emergency department and was transferred to the charge nurse. The caller said that a

My patient was a thirty-five-year-old man who came in by ambulance. He had a condition called tardive dyskinesia. It is

We frequently have to decide if an elderly patient has an altered mental status. This can be a bit tricky

A 23-year-old non-English-speaking Vietnamese man came in with a scalp injury. Through an interpreter, he said he was playing basketball

The other night, we had a serious trauma patient come in. She was eighteen-years-old and crashed her car off the

When a rape is reported somewhere in our county, police investigate and, if they think a forensic rape exam is

I was just looking back at my last few posts. They are pretty sad. I decided to share this with

If you look at all the great cookies recipes I have shared on this blog, you might get the idea

I just hired a PR guy to help me promote my cookies. Here is what I am going to put

We see a lot of methamphetamine-crazed people in our emergency department. One such guy came in the other night. He

A 28-year-old man came in with his mother complaining of chest and abdominal pain after drinking a whole bottle of

While doing my emergency medicine training, I worked in a hospital in Slidell, Louisiana. There, I helped care for a

It seems like I have so many drunk stories that one might think this is a blog about drunks. Oh

Emergency department staff deal with a lot of stressful situations. We kind of get used to it, after a while,