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TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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Close to midnight, we received a patient between the ages of 3-5 for a foreign body in the esophagus. His parents were arguing with each other—when his mother wasn’t crying hysterically, that is.
It wasn’t difficult to determine what the child had swallowed. As his father carried him, and with every step his father took, the child jingled.
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— May 18, 2025 06:25PM
It wasn’t difficult to determine what the child had swallowed. As his father carried him, and with every step his father took, the child jingled.
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TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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Advice from a frustrated M.D.
Do you know how high the numbers are, of patients we treat for papercuts to their tongues during the holidays?
Use a sponge or buy self-adhering envelopes.
Coming to ES because you lick too fast or ‘have a nasty taste in your mouth’ after sealing too many Christmas card envelopes is not an emergency!
--S.J.-G., M.D. California
— May 20, 2025 02:51PM
Do you know how high the numbers are, of patients we treat for papercuts to their tongues during the holidays?
Use a sponge or buy self-adhering envelopes.
Coming to ES because you lick too fast or ‘have a nasty taste in your mouth’ after sealing too many Christmas card envelopes is not an emergency!
--S.J.-G., M.D. California
TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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We treated a patient for an overdose, and following his three-day stay on ICU, he was arrested. He wasn’t busted for drugs, though.
He picked up the four-foot-tall Christmas tree that was in the ICU lobby and took it with him. Security chased him out an emergency exit, and the cops found the guy in the alley.
--D.W. Mississippi
— May 20, 2025 10:58AM
He picked up the four-foot-tall Christmas tree that was in the ICU lobby and took it with him. Security chased him out an emergency exit, and the cops found the guy in the alley.
--D.W. Mississippi
TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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I’m a RN who runs triage in our ED. Patients see me first, and if they want to be seen, I assess them and enter their name in our system. Registration goes to the room later, to get the rest of the patient’s information.
Well, one night it was snowing heavily, so we didn’t have but maybe two or three patients over a few hours. I was at my station, reading a magazine, when a man walked inside.
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— May 20, 2025 07:58AM
Well, one night it was snowing heavily, so we didn’t have but maybe two or three patients over a few hours. I was at my station, reading a magazine, when a man walked inside.
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TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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Tip from the PD:
If you’re going to do something illegal,like,maybe throw a NYE party while your parents are out of town,you probably should NOT make a public Facebook page.
Some of the charges from arrests we made at the party: illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor,drug and paraphernalia possession, providing alcohol to minors,disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, public indecency, and public intoxication.
— May 19, 2025 06:34AM
If you’re going to do something illegal,like,maybe throw a NYE party while your parents are out of town,you probably should NOT make a public Facebook page.
Some of the charges from arrests we made at the party: illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor,drug and paraphernalia possession, providing alcohol to minors,disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, public indecency, and public intoxication.
TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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I’m a nurse on our Pediatric Oncology floor and for Christmas, one of my patients received a basketball hoop that we hanged over the door. His ball somehow managed to get stuck in the net, so I (standing tall at 5’2”) tried to jump to knock the ball through the net’s opening. The cute new doctor was in the room and said he’d get the ball in a minute, but I just had to be the hero.
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— May 19, 2025 06:26AM
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TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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My A&E’s ‘Top Five’ complaints on New Year’s Eve:
5.) Alcohol poisoning
4.) SA
3.) Emergency dental complaints
2.) MVAs
1.) Medical clearances performed for officers
It never fails. EVERY year, idiots come in with cracked, broken, or missing teeth, admitting that they attempted to open alcohol bottles with their mouths.
Use a bloody bottle opener, dumbasses.
--M.G.
— May 18, 2025 06:34PM
5.) Alcohol poisoning
4.) SA
3.) Emergency dental complaints
2.) MVAs
1.) Medical clearances performed for officers
It never fails. EVERY year, idiots come in with cracked, broken, or missing teeth, admitting that they attempted to open alcohol bottles with their mouths.
Use a bloody bottle opener, dumbasses.
--M.G.
TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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The second-to-last run of my shift was pretty annoying, too, and I doubt anyone has told you anything like this.
Officers requested that we transport a patient for a psychiatric evaluation. The patient had been found harming himself and stated he wanted to harm others. He needed treatment for lacerations to his arms and hands. Some of these lacerations were deep and tendons were visible.
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— May 18, 2025 02:36PM
Officers requested that we transport a patient for a psychiatric evaluation. The patient had been found harming himself and stated he wanted to harm others. He needed treatment for lacerations to his arms and hands. Some of these lacerations were deep and tendons were visible.
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TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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If you’re going to attempt to burglarize a residence, 1.) make sure the homeowners are gone, and/or 2.) arm yourself with more than a giant, plastic candy cane decoration that you took from the front yard. Our subject sustained two bullet wounds when the homeowner shot him in the shoulder. The owner was also upset that his sidewalk display was left uneven,
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— May 18, 2025 02:20PM
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TL *Humaning the Best She Can*
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I know it’s an old urban legend-type story, but over the many years I’ve been a firefighter, we have responded to at least two calls of men trapped in chimneys while dressed as Santa Claus.
My advice to anyone out there would be: just don’t do it.
--K.G. Florida
— May 17, 2025 10:20PM
My advice to anyone out there would be: just don’t do it.
--K.G. Florida
The patient’s father interrupted our plans, as we had to scold him several times for singing a song and then attempting to coerce his child into nodding to add a ‘beat’ to the music. At one point, the father asked a tech if she had any song requests. Dad was eventually asked to stop or remove himself from the emergency room because we were afraid the bell would shift in the child’s throat.
Endo prepped the child and extracted the bell with no complications.
--P.T. Hawaii