November 23, 2009
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So much craziness
So many things going on all at the same time…
Here’s the short list:
- I did a lecture all about inappropriate use of the Emergency Department. Highlights included coming into the ER via ambulance, twice, for the same urinary tract infection (yes, those antibiotics ARE free, just go and pick them up!).
- I apparently won the costume contest at the Halloween party I went to. Slicy is officially retired from Halloween, which is kinda sad, but it is time to move on. I already have my idea for next years costume.
- Gwen got really sick and admitted to the hospital. She’s getting an ERCP tomorrow, so that’s fun.
- Samantha got her first haircut. I feel sad, since I really kind of liked the 7 month old with a mullet look.
- I got yelled at in the ER by a patient when I would not give him narcotics for his sore back. He is very young and appeared to be in zero pain. Yet somehow he has chronic back pain. Despite this he could jump around the room, walk all over the place without difficulty and spent the entirety of his time in the ER on the phone and pacing. Sorry, I’m just not buying it, no narcs for you, go see your primary care doc.
- Poop
- 3 deer continue to run around my back yard and a flock of turkeys keeps running by, don’t they know Thanksgiving is right around the corner?
Comments (5)
Love it when you find the time to write.
I envy you the deer and turkeys man.
Glad you had time to update. I wish I could demand more, but I think your job is slightly more important than xanga.
Sounds like a fun place. I used to work in an ER and also wrote songs for some local metal/punk bands. I would often see drug-seekers with “crippling” back pain and horrible headaches subjecting themselves to slam-dancing and ear-splitting music a few hours after I threw them out of the department. Good times!
POOP!
1) wowwwww. you’re now a lecturer. how dignified and respectable is that!
2) i will miss slicy
3) captain stricture and gwen must have a date tomorrow. drew will also have an endoscopy with dilatation. the GI scared me. he said perforations are more common in those with eosinophilic esophagitiis. and there’s no qualified surgeon if he does perforate.
4) so why is 7 months the magic age for the haircut?
5) hats off to you for standing your ground. i wouldn’t have given him narcs either.
6) we have enough of this right now in the house
7) kiss rudolf and his harem for me. poor turkeys!