A review of bread and butter Emergency Medicine topics
It’s a beautiful day outside, and the pediatric ED is packed with super cute, snot-nosed children. While you are busy at work, you are happy that all of these kiddos are so adorable. You are wondering if your shift can get any cuter, when a 17 year-old patient with known Read more…
It’s another long night in pod A, but luckily there is a break in the unending stream of patients. You head to your favorite green delicatessen and feeling adventurous, you pick up a bag of sour candy. So sour! Your brain instantly flashes back to the last time you prescribed sour candy as your memory-sensory axonal connections are triggered. The image of that 45 year-old man with 5 days of recurrent pain in the lower right of the mouth that was worse with eating is as clear as day. Who knew candy can be medicine? (more…)
Welcome back. We’re going to continue reviewing common eye complaints. This time we’ll focus on the conjunctiva. Let’s quickly review. The conjunctiva is a thin, clear lining that covers the anterior portion of the eyes and eyelids. References: Walker, Richard A., and Srikar Adhikari. “Chapter 236. Read more…
It’s 8AM. You are done with your night shift. All you can think about is a toasted whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and hot cup of single origin, organically grown, locally brewed and roasted cup of coffee. As you are biking, two elderly bikers pass you in Read more…
Wrapping up your secret interpretive dance class, you realize that the teacher is looking awfully slow. You approach him, and before he falls into your hands in his sweaty silver spandex, he tells you that his dancing is inspired by his seizure disorder. He then tells you that he thinks that he may have unintentionally Read more…
You have just come home from an exhausting 12- (really 13) hour shift and left with the final two perpetual decisions residents must face before sleep:
Both choices are easy. As the water begins to boil for your ramen, you turn on Arrested Development and are greeted with your favorite never-nude, analyst and therapist – Tobias Funke. His blue legs reminds you of a DVT you saw earlier this month that seemed especially concerning…
During a slow night in Fast Track, you decide to rewatch all 6 seasons of Dawson’s Creek. You start to tear up all over again when Joey chooses Pacey over Dawson. It’s just not fair! As you reach over for your snuggie and a box of tissues, you realize Read more…
She was a 14 year-old rebellious, care-free, hippie, feminist, vegan, gluten-free teenager, sitting in her room watching Donald Trump’s RNC speech. It only took few minutes till she furiously got out her room and started roaming around the house. From afar, she saw her mommy’s orange pill box, typed on Read more…
Listen up, Preppy. It’s 1990 and Bayside High is where it’s at. Mr. Belding may be breathing down your back, but you have Zack Morris and the gang to kick it with. Surely you remember Zack’s state-of-the-art, cooler-than-school cordless phone, right? Well, with all of the Saved By the Bell Read more…
You’re finally going to do it. Become the very best. Like no one ever was.
Become a pokemon master.
As you search along the mountain trail for the elusive EKANS with your eyes fixed on your phone, you step backwards onto a SNAKE. A sharp pain suddenly starts in your leg reinforcing how much better virtual animals are compared to those in real life.
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