Signout is hospital slang for the transfer of information between patient care teams. It is also the name of this blog, which represents one of the less dysfunctional ways in which Dr. Signout copes with her participation in a U.S. medical residency program.
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February 26, 2007
Category: Emergency Department
The other day, I walked into the main charting area and smelled pizza. This worried me, as food odors in the emergency department are, more often than not, early wafts of the aroma of vomit. A nurse must have seen my raised eyebrow: "Transfer pizza," she said.
Posted by Signout at 9:11 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2007
Category: Internal Medicine
"You're going to marry a man who doesn't need to be in charge. You're going to have four children. In a couple of years, you're going to run into me in the Bahamas, and you're going to pass out when you see how good I look."
Posted by Signout at 8:51 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 18, 2007
I've got news, people. When you make yourself a full code in a hospital--namely, when you elect to have full cardiopulmonary resuscitation done in the event that your heart or lungs stop working--you're donating your body to science.
Posted by Signout at 9:59 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 16, 2007
Category: Navel-gazing
I love this*:
Posted by Signout at 9:36 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 15, 2007
Category: Institution-specific Whinging
Yesterday, the hospital asked me the question I've been waiting for all my adult life: "Dr. Signout, will you marry me?"
Posted by Signout at 8:04 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 12, 2007
Category: Scut Monkey
I am totally f*cked.
Posted by Signout at 10:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 11, 2007
I wanted to claw my way over the people standing between me and the door so I could run as fast as I could, away from this terrible room where this nice woman had watched her mother die in the most inevitable way I could imagine.
Posted by Signout at 9:12 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 7, 2007
Category: Grand Rounds
Grand Rounds 3.20 is up at Tales from the Emergency Room. The focus this week is on the people behind the medicine. (If you ask me, the medicine should watch out, because the people is probably planning to give it...
Posted by Signout at 10:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Humor in the ICU is notoriously dark and free-flowing, and that's part of its appeal.
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February 2, 2007
Category: ICU
I overheard the attending doctor in the patient's room. "This man needs fluids. Bolus two liters of normal saline. Why isn't he getting more fluids?" I have been asking myself the same thing for the last four hours.
Posted by Signout at 9:34 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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