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Patient: doc, I need something to help me stay awake
Doctor: take two of these and call me in the morning
Patient: but these...aren't these your kids?
Doctor: trust me, I'm a doctor.
Patient: are you board certified?
Doctor: you tell me
[does a gnarly kick flip and sticks the landing]
Even though I’m working, I will be giving out my favorite fruity candy this Halloween. It just melts in your mouth and people ask me for it all the time.
It’s Zofran
I’m giving Zofran
My favorite thing to teach medical students is not how to manage critically ill patients, not any specific procedure, it’s not even how to order a CT scan.
I love to show how emergency medicine can be a rewarding, fulfilling career.
It’s not all doom and gloom and burnout
Apparently I have done an incalculable amount of harm by calling the consulting team to consult on a patient for consulting services that they provide.
Oh, you think your life is hard?
Back in undergrad, I had a professor take points off my scientific paper because I used the phrase “downstream effects”, and the reason he gave is that “we aren’t talking about a river”
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Saw a patient today for rib pain.
On her property, she has a large pond. Many geese stop for both their migrations north and south, but they don't nest there.
Early this past summer, one of the geese stayed, and it's been by the pond ever since.
The farmer in the ED during daylight hours getting ready to tell you the most insane story about how he lost a finger back in the day
“You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can’t pick your friend’s nose”
— Infectious Disease, probably














