Two Guys Brought in by the Cops
I heard an overhead announcement for assistance to the ambulance bay and went out to see if I could help. […]
I heard an overhead announcement for assistance to the ambulance bay and went out to see if I could help. […]
This is a story of a patient I took care of in the intensive care unit (ICU) during my training.
The psychiatric emergency department at our hospital notified us they were sending a patient with chest pain. Everyone who recognized
One of the most important things I do as an emergency physician is reassure people. True, I occasionally do something
Not G-Rated My patient was a 39-year-old man who presented in police custody. He wouldn’t talk to me but the
I went to see a 31-year-old man who was complaining of headaches and a bump on his scalp just above
I pick up the chart of a man in his early forties. “Rectal pain” is the chief complaint. When I enter
While Chair of our department, I had occasion to review the medical records of one of our patients. This review
“Doctor? I’m going to die.” I don’t know if she feels it from within herself or if she reads it
When I was a resident at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, I took care of a young man who came
I picked up a young man in turnover. That means his care had been started buy my partner on the
A 30-year-old woman had a seizure. She had never had a seizure before. Understandably upset, her husband called 911 and
I took care of these people when they came to the emergency department for care of their burns. I never
Last week, my friend, Dennis, came over to fix the ice maker in our refrigerator. He commented on this blog
In the middle of the night, the medics brought in a middle-aged lady who was severely burned. They said she
I went into the room of a man about sixty-five years old. He was naked except for a disposable diaper.
A 21-year-old woman was drinking with her girl friends the night before she was to be wed. They decided to
The medics brought in a 41-year-old man whose wife found him unresponsive in bed next to her in the middle
A 27-year-old man was dropped off by his friends after having been assaulted. He said he had been kicked and
I spend most of my time at work taking care of sick people, which is a serious and rewarding exercise.
My patient was a middle-aged man who was severely mentally retarded. He was able to do some things like walk
I had a twenty-year-old man come in worried about an infection in his penis. While recently incarcerated, he had agreed
We rarely have pediatric deaths in the emergency department and some of my most painful emergency physician memories are of
My patient was a man who had torsion of his testicle, resulting in the testicle being dead and needing to
He was a most pitiful man. He was about sixty-years-old and had suffered a stroke in the past. He was
My Patient of the Week was really a Mother of the Week. On Wednesday night, I cared for a fourteen-year-old
Our Patient of the Week was 29-years-old and had to be taken down by the police with a Taser (which
One night, I had an amazing patient. It is hard to do justice in a note like this just how
The other night the paramedics brought in a woman with burns on most of her scalp. The medics said when
The medics told us he was about sixty years old and lived in his car. He had gotten out of