START RANT> “Untold Stories of the ER”

Please, PLEASE for the love of pete, if you decide to do a ‘real life stories’ kind of show about medicine, especially the emergency kind, hire medical consultants!

When is the last time you got a blood pressure of 46/17 PALP? And the flight nurse with the trauma [...]

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Today wasn’t much different than yesterday but for some reason I was just plain happy. This is a happiness based in quiet contentment which just oozed into every small thing I experienced today.

I woke up after a very happy dream this morning, completed some steps in a major project for the Army, received multiple [...]

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I took a 79 year old lady on her very first flight EVER today. It is amazing how many patients we fly that have never been in the air. I have actually added, “Have you ever flown in a helicopter before?” to my list of assessment questions. The anxiety from knowing they [...]

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Just thought I would share my photo of the day. I miss my OD green flight helmet from the Army. This white helmet screams “Storm Trooper.”

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I have made it a point to not make any New Year’s Resolutions this year. They seem pointless.

This was brought home in a humorous fashion by a very good friend:

“Sure, I’ll make a resolution. I’ll go to church on Easter Sunday. Unless it is good weather. Then I will go golfing.”

I [...]

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