A Jam Made of Young Borderlines
On call in the ED last night, I had a tidal wave of jam. But it was a jam made mainly of young borderlines. This is what borderline (cuddly toy subtype) looks like:
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Crack is Whack
Just another emergency call night: States cameras in house and being poisoned by walls. States weakness and cp. taking crack for pain and energy without relief No relief even with crack? What is the...
More Reasons Why Overnight Call and Night Float Sucks
Animals exposed to the aberrant light cycle maintain daily corticosterone rhythms, but the overall levels of corticosterone are increased. Despite normal circadian and sleep structures, these animals show increased depression-like behaviours and impaired hippocampal...
Leeches, Stat!
Had a hunch, ran some iron studies on a patient with some atypical psychotic features (and smearing poop everywhere!) They are positive for iron overload… hemochromatosis. Now my plan to order leeches (stat!) to...
US Congressman Paul Broun Practiced Medicine Without a License
So, confirmed dingbat, Science Denier and Chairman of the US Congress’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, recently said that such things as embryology, evolution and astrophysics such as...
It’s About the Dilaudid
So when a nurse calls you for a patient request and begins with “It’s about the Dilaudid” you generally expect the conversation to go one way. I was therefore so surprised that a patient...
Sleeping Beauty!
I was called to the ED to eval an unresponsive pt for whom cardiac workup had been negative (was clammy, looked a bit like shock, and even had the defibrillator hooked up…). But luckily...
Psychiatric Call Boy
“I was literally standing in the drug-rep spot begging for a minute of this doctor’s time, like a cocker spaniel begging for a leftover piece of meat from the table … It was like...
My House M.D. Moment
Hgb electrophoresis confirmed a putative thalassemia diagnosis I made last week on person presenting with microcytic anemia and, after some digging around the family history, a “half-Sicilian” mother. At last all those USMLE ding-dong...
Seguro De SÃ Mismo
Some treat him with contempt and disgust, usually the ones who have been directly involved in antiabortion activities. They hate all abortion except for their special case. One even said they should all be...