things i've seen:
- knife through hand
- finger laceration
- methamphetamine pt jumped on hood of boyfriend's moving car
- bipolar/schizo patient with portrait of michael jackson painting and leather jacket
Thursday, December 18, 2014
the beginning
a previous scribe lamented how she wished she had written down some of the stories and scenarios she witnessed during her time in the ER.
One month into my job and I can see why. Here's to an attempt to recording some of the things I deal with on a daily basis. from the mundane to the "I can't believe this is real life" crazy.
I don't work at a level3 trauma center so the things we see in the ER are pretty ordinary. Sure, you have your fair share of gun shot wounds, cardiac arrests and strokes, but everyone who walks through our doors more or less does exactly that--they walk through. Most of the patients we see are uninsured people who use the ED as their primary care doctor. This consists of the slew of abdominal pains, cold symptoms, rashes, foreign objects, etc. And then there are the drug addicts, alcoholics and painkiller hunters sprinkled throughout the elderly patients who come in by ambulance. And that's enough for anyone to see and know that people are crazy.
Here goes nothing.
One month into my job and I can see why. Here's to an attempt to recording some of the things I deal with on a daily basis. from the mundane to the "I can't believe this is real life" crazy.
I don't work at a level3 trauma center so the things we see in the ER are pretty ordinary. Sure, you have your fair share of gun shot wounds, cardiac arrests and strokes, but everyone who walks through our doors more or less does exactly that--they walk through. Most of the patients we see are uninsured people who use the ED as their primary care doctor. This consists of the slew of abdominal pains, cold symptoms, rashes, foreign objects, etc. And then there are the drug addicts, alcoholics and painkiller hunters sprinkled throughout the elderly patients who come in by ambulance. And that's enough for anyone to see and know that people are crazy.
Here goes nothing.
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