Seen taped to the cover of a large emergency medicine text:
Sick --> admit to medicine or surgery
Not sick --> Vicodin, generic discharge paperwork
Not sure --> admit to neurology
- Log in to post comments
More like this
I've heard quite a bit about pharmacists who've refused to fill prescriptions for contraceptives due to personal moral stance. But I'd not heard any who refused to fill a prescription for painkillers until yesterday.
Here's the story. A relative just had surgery to remove a lump in her breast.…
I have now completed almost a year of surgical internship, and as I'm sure you've noticed from my sparse blogging, I've had little free time for writing. It's a shame too because surgery is just so cool.
Intern year is mostly about learning to manage surgical patients, basically people in varying…
Are you going to be finishing all of that mastodon meat?
Cost of Modern Medicine, Insurance Reform, and Death in the Paleolithic
Two months ago, I fell on the ice, was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, got emergency surgery, and two/three days later was released from the hospital. The…
"He's just a drug seeker." This was my signout from Dr. Dispo, an emergency medicine intern. He was going home, and I was taking over the care of any patients of his that still needed disposition, whether to the inpatient floors, a short-stay unit, the psychiatry department, or home.
This last…
Good one. Several years ago, I heard a neurologist giving a presentation comment that "The old saying about neurology is that we don't treat diseases, we merely admire them." Love that self-deprecating medical humor.
Wow, I hope that wasn't just a synopsis of the text. *installs plastic bubble*
I think people differ greatly on this issue. For example, if it were completely unidentifiable as my own, I would have no problem with a picture of my naked ass being posted on the Internet. Others would be absolutely horrified by the prospect.
Signout reader named Benjamin Langer, who himself has a very nice critical piece on intelligent design in the current edition of SCQ.
Tesekkurler...Actually, the only person in danger of being silenced was you, yourself, for making a dumb threat on the internet. You told me personally several times to "shut up and listen," but like I said, I don't take orders from random anonymous people on the internet.
thanks for information