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I keep reading notes about this "outside hospital"
How do I get a job there and escape this windowless dungeon
SaltyEM
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SaltyEM
@SaltyEMNY
Rural doc bringing salt to Emergency Med.
Making it work with too little.
Extra chaotic good. I only tweet medical advice. Jawn enthusiast.
Bumble, NY
Joined January 2019
- If your home COVID test was positive, you have COVID. Please do not come to the ER for another test.
- So uh... We have a baby now. Apparently you just take them home from the hospital after like a day and then they're your responsibility.
- Replying to @SaltyEMNYAs she was reaching for it, she slipped and fell, landing hard on her ribs, and the goose got away. So in conclusion: This lady broke her ribs on a wild goose chase.
- Nurse brought me something to sign this morning. I tap my empty pockets. "you have a pen on you?" I ask. After a quick side eye, she says "sure but don't go stealing my pen!" and promptly slides me the pen I brought to work today. I've been had
- Be the doc who the nurses find/text when their family member is coming in.
- Please do not buy stainless steel or titanium rings. They seem cool until you can't get them off.
- Taking ibuprofen with my coffee this morning to remind my gastric lining that I'm the one in charge here
- New interns: my only advice is to do the physical exam. Do it for real. Push on all of those bellies. Figure out how hard you have to push for people to say "ow" just because you were pushing, and when it's pathologic. Get in the habit of doing a real exam and never stop.
- Saw a patient today for rib pain. On her property, she has a large pond. Many geese stop for both their migrations north and south, but they don't nest there. Early this past summer, one of the geese stayed, and it's been by the pond ever since.
- Replying to @SaltyEMNYIf you can't breathe or need treatment, by all means come. But please don't overwhelm us with confirmatory testing. You have COVID.
- Ho ho holy shit everyone has COVID
- I don't want monoclonal antibodies.I don't want dexamethasone. God will keep me safe. Ma'am, you came to a hospital; not a church.
- Took care of my first COVID infection "survivor" today in the ER. They had a trach and PEG tube and had a stoke from COVID leading to hemiparesis. But they didn't die, so they're not in that 1% mortality that everyone if touting. Wear a fucking mask. Please