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Ride Motorcycles, Not Fences A 27-year-old man lost control of his motorcycle and ran up against a three-foot-tall chain link […]

Here is a guitar that was left in the emergency department by some patient.  

Customer Service 2 Last week, I posted about a man who complained to Customer Service after being refused intravenous morphine.

I went into medicine to help people. Emergency medicine gives me a lot of opportunities to do this and relieving

My patient was a 34-year-old man who was brought in by ambulance after having a seizure. He was confused and

Call for a Ride Home A man was seen in the emergency department and discharged. As he walked out, he

Ete was a five-year-old boy. At 2:00 in the morning, he woke up screaming with pain from a headache. Mom

As Edna was waiting for her bed upstairs, I sat down and talked with her for a minute. First, we

Lucky or Unlucky? A 16-year-old girl was flown in by helicopter after being shot in the chest. The bullet went

A 14-year-old was brought in by ambulance after having given birth at home. She was 35 weeks pregnant and had

If medics call our hospital and report they are bringing someone who may need immediate attention, a Medical Alert is

The mother of one of my patients told me an interesting story this week. She brought her thirteen-month-old daughter in

Sometimes, the people accompanying patients to the emergency department are more interesting than the patients. In this case, the patient

Patients or their family members frequently come in with notes to help detail and clarify what has been going on

The police approached a middle-aged man for being intoxicated in public. His lack of cooperation resulted in a scuffle during

The paramedics brought in a twenty-two-year-old man who was found hanging by his ankle under a freeway overpass. The story

Free Ultrasound A lady in her twenties came in with a gallbladder attack. I treated her pain and ran some

A thirty-one-year-old woman came in by ambulance after attempting to kill herself. She was five months pregnant with her 17th

A 40-year-old Cambodian woman came in by ambulance complaining of whole body stiffness and inability to speak or move her

An 84-year-old man came in with a nosebleed. He was upset and said to the nurse, “I’m bleeding to death!

Last week, I shared some interesting complaints with which some of my patients presented to the emergency department. Here are

Think Emergency Department means “emergency?” Check out some of these ED patient complaints. 26 year-old female presented at 6:00 in

I cared for a sixty-one-year-old lady who was brought to the emergency department by her daughter and brother. They brought

A forty-year-old man was brought in my medics. They had been called to the Greyhound station to pick up a

“My Jaw is Already Locked” In the south, people frequently referred to a tetanus shot as a “lockjaw shot.” One

A man came in saying he had been having painful urination and a drip from his penis. He claimed it

This is the third of a series of emergency coincidences that were interesting to me. Double Achilles’ Trouble The Achilles

Bible Open to Different Page A 66-year-old woman came in by ambulance after waking up and feeling her eyes irritated

Here are some Emergency Department coincidences that were noteworthy to me.   Three T’s I did my internship in emergency

A Sad Super Bowl Party A fifteen-year-old girl was at a Super Bowl party at a friend’s house just up