EmergencyDpt

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1. Gay Nurses... help!

   EmergencyDpt replied to quakerkid's topic in Male Students

   I'm not one to pile on but if you have had a supernatural experience then it was totally your own. If I had one I'd look into my mirror and see what about me led me to a conclusion not supported by other witnesses or by reproducable and robust exper...

2. Gay Nurses... help!

   EmergencyDpt replied to quakerkid's topic in Male Students

   Yoginurse2b, Thank you for your post. As athiests we are doubly damned (pun intended) by a society that would rather look back toward the hunter/gatherer, every man for himself, magical thinking mindset. I'm always dissapointed that nurses who use ...

3. Gay Nurses... help!

   EmergencyDpt replied to quakerkid's topic in Male Students

   Making a point? Have you no idea that without the ability to engage in a civil marriage with our partners, we are denied the right of survivorship. When your partner dies, your house, your pets, your posessions go to your partner's closest reletive a...

4. Gay Nurses... help!

   EmergencyDpt replied to quakerkid's topic in Male Students

   Just Cause, Thanks for your post. And good point. However, exit polls show that the majority of people who voted for prop 8 did so for reasons that were not germaine to the issue, ie, teaching gay marriage in school. Marriage has not been taught i...

5. Gay Nurses... help!

   EmergencyDpt replied to quakerkid's topic in Male Students

   Yoginurse2b, Jimmy and I were really dissapointed about that vote. They couldn't have passed it without using lies and misdirection. In exit polls, 80% of people who voted for prop 8 did so to keep homosexuality from being taught in the schools. This...

6. Gay Nurses... help!

   EmergencyDpt replied to quakerkid's topic in Male Students

   As a gay male in his 40's I have seen the incidence of homophobia in the workplace decline quite a bit. Of course I moved from Georgia to San Jose to escape some of that but all in all it's a more accepting workplace. Gay people have had a tough ti...

7. medications: take home packs

   EmergencyDpt replied to MAGIK GIRL's topic in Emergency

   On my planet the pyxis is in the waiting room. It takes cash, checks, foodstams, wic cards. It saves giving a million dollar work up to people who are just garden variety drug addicts.

8. Foreign Objects in Body Cavities

   EmergencyDpt replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

   We had a fourteen year old boy with his mother's vibrator in him in the "on" position. You could feel it through his stomach and definatily auscultate it "BZZZZZZZZ" I don't know who was more embarrased, him or his mother. I look at it as a normal...

9. Ketamine

   EmergencyDpt replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

   Use it often in the ER. One hospital protocol stated that only an MD can give it if IV but that was just one. The research I've done says that it's very safe. it was used extesively in Viet Nam as a battle field anesthetic becuase it had little or...