Pinball Doctering? Firefighting?
Bing! “Dr, you need to see this patient, she has an acute stoke!” – *runs over and sees a stat stroke. Puts out fire*
Ding! “Dr, can you see this seizing baby!!” – *runs over and sees seizing baby. Puts out fire*
Ring! “Dr, please see my patient who is suddenly unresponsive!!!” – *runs over and sees completely obtunded old guy. Puts out fire*
Bing! “Dr, a cardiac arrest is here!!” – *runs over and sees cardiac arrest in v-fib. Puts out fire*
Ding! “Dr, you have to come and see my patient! He’s septic!!” – * runs over and sees septic patient with no blood pressure. Puts out fire*
Next patient was a sprained foot. Finally, now I get a chance to do some charting.
Friday, May 18th 2012 at 3:18 pm |
You sound like a Super Hero to me. I love emergency medical personnel. And bubble heads, the Navy’s submariners, there great fun and competent like that too.
Friday, May 18th 2012 at 3:19 pm |
Eek. Of course it ought to read “They are great fun too”
Friday, May 18th 2012 at 9:47 pm |
Our stuff is like:
1. Drunk swinging at people –> Put in restraints
2. Someone having a meltdown over not getting a sandwich —> Put on the street
3. Someone having a meltdown about not getting narcotics —> Therapeutic wait and hope they leave
Like 6 hours later, someone has as STEMI and we actually do something other than pat people on the head.