Posted by denitzablagev on October 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“I got run over by a golf cart at the State Fair,” my five-year-old cheerfully says to the Emergency Department technician who is checking us in. A utility cart knocked him down – he is a five-year-old running along the grass by the path, and some asshole wasn’t looking as he turned into my kid … Continue reading →
Filed under access to care, Denial, doctor, medical costs, medical decisions, quality improvement, women in medicine · Tagged with accident, apology, band aid, child, compartment syndrome, compression, doctor as patient, ED visit, elevation, emergency department, emergency room, first aid, football, fracture, hand injury, hand X-ray, ibuprophen, ice, injury, medicine, pain, pain assessment, pain score, patient satisfaction, presyncope, radiation, rest, RICE, sorry, state fair, syncope, tylenol, vaso-vagal syncope, X-ray
Posted by denitzablagev on October 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment
My variously named post – “The Weight of Words” or “Our Words Leave The Most Lasting Impression” is now up at kevinmd.com. Check it out at http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/10/words-leave-lasting-impression.html
Filed under doctor, KevinMD, medical education, Published Elsewhere · Tagged with axe, Bear, but words shall never harm me, doctor as patient, doctor patient interaction, Doctors, may break my bones, patient doctor relationship, sticks and stones, words
mybetterdoctor 