Stepping into a hospital for the first time as a clinical medical student is a strange dichotomy. There is still so much…
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2019 is here. I started my year by doing an urgent care shift on New Year’s day. It was not quite as…
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3 things this physician wished he could have done differently
by Mitchel Schwindt MD January 13, 2019“What took you so long? I’d have thought you would address this issue sooner.” I felt a like a scolded child sitting…
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Finishing my ER shift for the day, I waited for the shuttle at a busy intersection. Within a minute of drowning myself…
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May 2016, Kijabe, Kenya I arrived in casualty (the emergency department) to see a minimally responsive Kenyan boy with a body wasted…
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About two months ago, a 15-year-old Native American male was riding around in a stolen car on the reservation. “M” and the…
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Enlarge this image Talitha Saunders and AJ Ikamoto tidy their ambulance at the end of a recent shift. The two work as…
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1. Murphy’s Law as it applies to the ER: If something can go bad, it will do so in a hurry. If…