Sublime Emergencies
On call last night in ED (A&E for non-US readers!). People wonder how US healthcare costs can be so ridiculously high wrt OECD averages, yet the average health outcomes of the population can be...
Tagged: WTF
Blood Moon Over Marin
Upon arrival they were met by a 16-year-old male, covered in blood, who refused to let them in, resisting their efforts to open the gate with “superhuman strength” and later becoming combative … the...
Morphine for Spectacular Psychiatric Efficacy
On call last night, got a spectacular consult. Elderly person w/ poorly controlled HIV, sent in from a facility. By report, “acting out and throwing self to floor, evaluate for psychiatric disease and 5150...
Mounted Mediaeval Rabbits v Snails: The Enslimenenening
Part 2 – Mediaeval Monkey V Snail Bugaloo:
Who Watches the Watchmen?
We do! More here.
It’s This Surfeit of Cooks That’s Having Such a Negative Impact on the Broth
Did my first psych interview with a blind, deaf and mute patient last night. It was a whole Monty Python/Big Train surreal sketch comedy scenario.
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...
Fatal Colonic Explosion During Colonoscopic Polypectomy
A patient is described who sustained the first reported colonic explosion during colonoscopic polypectomy. Mannitol solution was used for bowel preparation, and the colon was completely clean. During snare removal of a cecal polyp...