Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency

All identifying info is left out and patient details have been changed in order to protect anonymity. This blog is a fictional blog. These kinds of cases occur in Emergency Departments across the nation but the cases and details here have been changed. This blog started out to document my journey through medical school and now I continue to document my life as a resident physician in EM in a story like fictional style. I am however an actual resident in EM.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Study, Study Study

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So I have been studying for 14+ hours and have at least another 20 or so to go to get ready for my exam tomorrow at 10:00 am. The test will ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The ER rotation is over

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My last shift was yesterday. I feel bummed it is over. I loved the ER. Even before I started medical school I always thought ER would be one...

I got your back!

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Yesterday I was in the peds ER again. We had had a couple of interesting cases. One was a 28 day old female infant that started having a fev...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Kids, Kids, everywhere

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Today I worked in the pediatric ER. It was a good shift despite the fact that I do not like the pediatric patient as much as I do some of th...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

The joys of inebriation

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Early Saturday morning, while I was debriding an abscess on the rear end of a female patient I heard a bunch of commotion out in the hall wa...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008

You down with PID, yeah you know me!

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I get in at 10:30 pm Friday night and a nurse grabs me and says: "you have a 16 y/o african american female in room 18 complaining of a...
Friday, July 25, 2008

ER the uninsured primary care clinic?

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I would say that about 60% of the patients we see at this ER are not even close to emergency. Of those 60% about 80% are uninsured and have ...
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