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 September 20, 2013 · 2 Comments
“I don’t want to quit smoking,” my patient says with her face firmly set. I’m taken aback. “I don’t think that’s true,” I say,” you just told me you quit, then you started again because your brother and grandson died in the past few months and you’re struggling with the loss. I don’t think it’s … Continue reading →
Filed under doctor, medical education, my tirades · Tagged with alone together, cigarettes, compassion, death, depression, dying, edward hopper, empathy, failing, guilt, help, not quitting smoking, pain, quitting smoking, smoking, still smoking, tobacco cessation
