November 26th, 201801BOSTON, MA—After years of seeing patients who were reported in the news media to have been found in “full cardiac arrest,” emergency physicians at Doctors University Hospital are stunned to see the first ever case of less-than-full cardiac arrest.
“It’s the darnedest thing,” said Dr. Vincent Mario,...
November 5th, 201801San Diego, California – In an unfortunate event last month Dr. Emmert Gencey, a new 29-year-old ER doc, became lost in the space-time continuum for about a week after he switched from day shift to night shift to swing shift and then back to day shift on 4 consecutive days. It is a well-known fact that a large portion of the burnout...
October 11th, 201801“I just want to get the voice right,” said brand-new internal medicine resident Dr. Joseph Green. “Like, I want to paint a picture of her pain that feels real. I want the texture, the taste, the smell – the words need to really pop.”
Dr. Green was five hours into an eight-hour ED shift and had spent his...
October 5th, 201801“WiFi is down, call for help!!”
DELTA 1554 – Progressively becoming more altered and unresponsive as the flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta climbed towards cruising altitude, the Atlanta-based Delta crew didn’t simply ask if there was a doctor on board they called a Code Blue in the hopes of resuscitating the...
October 1st, 201801AUGUSTA, GA – In a striking new development in the world of medical documentation, emergency room physician Arthur Gates admits to still being in a daze after somehow finding himself taking notes for the medical scribe Tim Penn evaluating the patient in ER bed 9.
“Hi Tim!”
“Shouldn’t it be...
September 18th, 201802LOS ANGELES, CA – Gomerblog has learned that a computer keyboard colonized with a whole host of microorganisms at the nurses station on Unit 4A of Los Angeles Medical Center (LAMC) has become septic, prompting transfer to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) for further management.
“Don’t touch...
September 10th, 201801BEVERLY HILLS, CA: It’s no secret that Americans spend far too much on end-of-life care. Moreover, medical interventions on the terminally ill can be needlessly painful and even against the patient’s own wishes. Fortunately, Beverly Hills Hospital has recently announced the launch its new Vapid Response Team.
“The VRT...
September 10th, 201802
165 SharesBEVERLY HILLS, CA: It’s no secret that Americans spend far too much on end-of-life care. Moreover, medical interventions on the terminally ill can be needlessly painful and even against the patient’s own wishes. Fortunately, Beverly Hills Hospital has recently announced the launch its new Vapid Response...
September 9th, 201801
894 SharesChadron, Nebraska– Emergency room physician assistant Chester Preshuns was shocked last Thursday afternoon during transport of his STEMI patient to a cardiac/cath lab capable facility. “I knew even before I got the chemistries back this guy had an inferior infarct. II/III/AvF ST elevation, with reciprocal lead...
September 9th, 201801
894 SharesChadron, Nebraska– Emergency room physician assistant Chester Preshuns was shocked last Thursday afternoon during transport of his STEMI patient to a cardiac/cath lab capable facility. “I knew even before I got the chemistries back this guy had an inferior infarct. II/III/AvF ST elevation, with reciprocal lead...
