DrLilith replied to corky1272RN's topic in Emergency
Yes, I remember this topic was discussed at a break-out session at a local fam. med. CME conference...one of the local hosp/clinic entities was trying such a program, their first group of patients was about 30-40 people. There were some growing pain...
"Hangnail, yeast infection, cold sx for 2 hours...seriously???" Reminds me though of a case from my early primary-care days: 40's-something woman with cc of recurrent yeast infections. Due to the "recurrent" part I ordered a somewhat wider workup, ...
DrLilith replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency
"status dramaticus event" --- LOVE IT! I am SO stealing this descriptor!! (Thanks for all the awesome stories, I am an Urgent Care doc so I don't often see the acuity or frank ridiculousness that y'all do, but there certainly is some overlap at time...
DrLilith replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency
"ED nurses that wear t-shirts instead of scrub tops." What's wrong with the scrub tops? Love'em. It's the scrub bottoms that never fit right on big-bottomed gals like me (and then the pager falls into the toilet on your 30-sec pee break)! ---- Lo...
DrLilith replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency
"Last shift we were getting ready to incubate a bad COPDer..." I just got the weirdest visual of trying to fit an elderly pink-puffer into a neonatal incubator...lol!