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Small town ERs are different. this evening I saw something I didn't know happened. When I got to the ER for my shift, I was told about the patients in the ED, and that one room had a patient who had expired, waiting on the funeral home, along with the ones I can potentially

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Grandkid #1 . Pretty darn happy.

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2 years

@susanwherley And TWO SPACES.

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3 years

This is a great week to ask your ER headache patients how they’re heating their homes. CO is sneaky.

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3 years

Well. Some North Texas smaller ERs are closing tonight to consolidate staffs at other places. I’ve been doing this a while and this is the worst I’ve seen ERs ever. If you chose not to vax, from the bottom of my heart, screw you.

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@OthrVirginiaGuy @Kinger_DC Why they had the money is explicitly nobody else’s business.

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3 years

Dammit! My colleague Dr Kenneth Adams, stellar ER doc, and friend, died of Covid today. He leaves a widow. I have a lot of blame but it doesn’t help. My friend has died.

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@RealJMPeterman Thank heavens it didn’t have the shoulder foldy down thing.

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@EzraFBridgers Homeschooling is illegal in places where the teachers own the government, not anywhere parents love their kids more than government employees.

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3 years

Walking into my Monday evening ER shift and this greets me. If you know you know.

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7 months

@EM_RESUS I have a good idea what the diagnosis is, and there’s a slim chance he’ll win the Tour de France.

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3 years

Buried mom today. Metastatic cancer, on hospice 2 days, a painless death 5 weeks after the diagnosis. Good service, just family and friends. I was blown away when a HS band bud I hadn't seen in 40 years walked in, flew in from Atlanta for the service he thought so much of mom.

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14 days

@avrilanche There are 3,100 people in that boundary. Calm down.

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@EODHappyCaptain Leave in plenty of time to change a tire or a transmission and still make the flight.

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1 month

@Rainmaker1973 The third key is the person 5 feet away with the remote to hit the unlock button at the right time.

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2 years

@shortney0006 @Swimcruiserun Since I hadn’t heard of it either:

Ohio Hospital Shooting: 1 Dead, Security Guard Injured

An inmate has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting a security guard at Miami Valley Hospital.

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6 years

My relative had a moderately severe allergic reaction to nuts the other day. Given an Rx for Auvi-Q epi autoinjector. Denied by insurance. Walgreen’s cash price? $5,800. For one. That’s not a typo. This insanity has to stop.

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4 years

And yesterday, I and my beloved did a thing…

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8 years

@ericholder @realdonaldtrump @jeremyfaust You literally jailed a patsy filmmaker to sell a BS story about a film causing Benghazi.

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2 months

@olsonplanner That cannot be legal. Please tell me it's not legal for an employer to penalize anyone financially for having a child.

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7 years

“All you’re giving me is Motrin. That’s over the counter”. This and patient satisfaction got us the US opioid epidemic.

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1 year

@thatnrselife Ask for the BMIs of the lunchroom observers sending these letters and watch this stop.

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1 year

@MCCCANM @Greenpeace It makes sense when you realize greenpeace would be perfectly happy with a mass people die off.

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5 years

This should get my nurses through tonight’s shift.

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1 year

@RIDICULO_pathy @KeneAkers That's literally white girl privilege.

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2 years

@RozehnalMd The wall around that will be a crime scene in a week.

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3 years

@liz_lapoint If your premise starts with 'why should people be ALLOWED to...' then you need to soak your head for a bit and go read a book.

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3 years

I’m going to start writing ‘throw your blood pressure machine away’ on discharges from the ER. There’s nothing out there causing more anxiety and ER visits than home BP machines.

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6 years

@DGlaucomflecken (Walks up to podium at major Emergency Medicine conference) (Taps mic) Me: Really we’re all just glorified Family Practitioners with a CT scanner. (Beaten to death with personally owned handheld sono probes)

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5 years

This is cool. Our nursing leadership has arranged for nightly food trucks and it’s doing a lot for morale.

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5 years

Pro tip: the hallmark of the diagnosis of a compartment syndrome cannot be made until the orthopedic consultant tells you the patient cannot possibly have it. Never fails.

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3 years

I’m sitting in a hospital room with my folks. Moms third ER visit in 8 days and she’s dehydrated. Metastatic cancer, pathologic fx, etc. I tell you this to mention I have No Idea how regular non medical humans navigate healthcare. It’s Byzantine. T&P appreciated.

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2 years

@OGdukeneurosurg I’m not a surgeon, but how can this be blamed on anesthesia?

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1 year

@HarmfulOpinion @LegalizeitLala We ran off perfectly great nurses we needed then and now over this shot.

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1 year

ER docs, please, don't let patients suffer because they're pregnant. Recently cared for a pregnant woman who was beside herself with anxiety due to untreated pain, 'they said I can only have Tylenol because I'm pregnant'. It happened in a different ER.

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1 month

@EM_RESUS Cutlery smuggling. Also a pretty large ventral hernia.

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3 years

Am I an ER doctor with a CT scanner, or am I an ER doctor because I have a CT scanner?

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5 years

Based on the nurses in my FB feed there’s some WA state senator who needs to look into the witness protection program. And the pic if from my nurses at work, playing cards as usual

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6 months

@armyemdoc You must have others to fight your fights for you. Because if you had to do this yourself you wouldn’t. Full opioid forced withdrawal is cruel and unneeded. It’s immoral, awful, brutish, terrible and wildly unnecessary. It says nothing good about you that you advocate for it.

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4 years

@GeorgeTakei What an ugly heart.

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6 months

@Shadow0pz Who is 'we'? BTW 'we' just tucked tail and ran away from 20 years in Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Twenty Years against an adversary without anything other than a will to win and time. 'We' keep getting our asses handed to 'us'. Please read a book.

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8 months

@JonathanACBrown @EliLake If they’ve been engaged in a genocidal project for decades then they suck at it.

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1 year

@ElieNYC What a horrible person you are. Do better.

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6 years

Twitter folk, @realEDdoc has a kid in the hospital, in serious condition. I’m certain he’d appreciate a kind thought or word. Let’s be a community today. @realEDdoc

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6 years

My favorite recent EMR find.

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7 years

My 90 room ED has 86 boarded patients. Ask me about my hallway medicine practice.

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9 months

@ClareZimMD It was a task oriented order, it was followed. No issue.

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3 years

Truth from FB.

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7 years

Merry Christmas from the ER. Everyone here is sick tonight, as you’d expect. Y’all sleep well, we got this.

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4 years

@DGlaucomflecken I would find it WILDLY unsettling if my parents eye dentist called them to talk about end of life desires. Like what in the World? Please keep being funny. We need humor!

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7 years

My patient held my hand, told me i was the best doc ever Then asked for Dilaudid. Well.

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3 years

One of our nurses died very suddenly and unexpectedly. There’s a lot of love in this family. Fortunate to be included in it.

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4 years

What am I noticing at work with the lockdown eased in Texas? Slowly increasing ER volumes and a lot of people with fresh haircuts.

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4 years

via @EmergencyDocTX Here’s the name of the Emergency Physician hero who was the first, and not the last of us, to die of Covid-19, Dr. Frank Gabrin. Thank you for your work Sir, we will try not to disappoint.

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4 months

@OGdukeneurosurg No anesthetist, no med student holding a hook being blocked out by an R2.

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2 years

@sweetchinchilla And boo on the manager who didn’t just round file that complaint. Just because there’s a complaint doesn’t make it valid or actionable. Be a filter not a conduit.

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@JaredSandler What am I feeling? Rangers have been ONE OUT AWAY, TWICE. Victory is not assured. Win. Now.

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1 year

Well. Turned 60 today. When I was but a lad 60 was Seniors menus and bedtime by 5, at least in my mind. Nope. A little physically slower and not as fit as I was as a lad, but still here and still in the game! Thanks to my 5 friends here, and the rest of you, too.

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@EM_RESUS Everything everywhere all at once.

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@ShitpostGate Apparently AI doesn't watch TV yet.

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3 years

@JackPosobiec Takes some weird Hubris to show up as the Romans to shut down church right after Good Friday.

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7 years

Nurse and I just fell over praising a patients family member for the beautiful med list! It doesn't take much to make us happy.

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2 years

I have decided to give up motorcycle riding as a hobby. For no reason whatsoever.

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2 years

@RoseSilicon @WaltDisneyCo What part of not teaching 3rd graders about sex is an abuse of human rights? Be specific.

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6 months

@EM_RESUS 1: traumatic pneumothorax 2: probably breast cancer having been treated with a left mastectomy and placement of a port to facilitate chemo.

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7 years

Was just asked ‘What kind of ER doctor are you?” ‘better than average’ was all I could think to say.

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8 months

@EM_RESUS Too much news.

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3 months

@lrogers324 Please.

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1 year

@Meghann_MT @bendreyfuss Please tell me she’s getting roasted.

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1 year

@Huff4Congress @DeptofDefense @USArmy Amazing. DOD destroying itself is such a weird phenomenon.

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1 year

@thenephrologist Seriously, in the 2020s we are to believe there is a wave of uncontained racism in medical training? In todays political and legal environment? I’d believe the Easter bunny is real first.

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6 years

The sono cord and its natural enemy, seen in the wild. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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1 year

I apologized for someone else's lack of knowledge, treated her pain, fixed her issue and she couldn't have been happier. Don't leave patients in pain, there are many many safe ways to treat pain in pregnant women beyond Tylenol. (Even the IV version).

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4 years

Times are changing in North Texas with Covid-19. I just did an entire shift without putting on PPE beyond the normal surgical mask. It’s nice.

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3 months

@janjapi43 It was exceptionally dusty in there.

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1 year

@BJacksonWrites You served for the Pride flag? Was that even a thing then?

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3 years

@adamgreattweet For $500 I’ll wear my white coat, rip off my mask and yell ‘WE NEED YOU IN THE ER NOW’ and you’re free of awkward time spent with whomever you need to escape.

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5 years

Some days my biggest contribution to my ER is restarting computers. I’m wildly overpaid for that role, but there you go.

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1 year

@PhysicianDoodle Our system has put a timer on releasing ED ordered results until 2 hours after discharge to try and handle this issue.

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4 years

Huh. I accidentally joined a club!

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3 months

@DrLongissimus Until you need one.

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@Grand_handsomer

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7 years

Pt I quit donuts after diagnosed w diabetes Us good Pt I heard cinnamon is good for DM Us maybe Pt that’s why I switched to cinnamon rolls

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6 years

There may be a good reason and I don’t know it, but, why do I keep seeing patients with a less than 6 month life expectancy on statins?

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It’s always nice when the ER patient asks if you have an office practice because they want you to be their doctor. It’s flattering as hell.

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1 year

@Taraballs Grandma skills.

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@MatthewGuoMD I'm a dad, and I'm proud of you. Imagine how thrilled he'd be with what you're doing.

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1 year

Docs, does anyone believe Tessalon Perles ( aka Benzonatate) helps with cough? I don’t, haven’t prescribed them in forever, but keep seeing them prescribed.

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@emrazz It’s too bad she didn’t prank him back with shots from her pistol.

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1 year

@JoyceCarolOates Madam, what country were you raised in? Because USA seems to be out.

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7 years

Disclaimer: tweets are paraphrases, all errors mine. Don’t change medical practice based on reading tweets, do your homework. #ACEP17

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7 years

So, what’s the over/under that we’re going to get one of our emesis bags returned with a urine specimen?

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4 years

I will not denigrate those who watch NASCAR. For those of you who watch NASCAR, denigrate means talk down to.

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@gruntdoc Hey NASCAR is back

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@MBurt34 Retirees.

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1 year

@thenephrologist @healwj2 @acgme @sickledoc @BlackDocVillage So data that cannot be published is the data you want to claim racism for? That’s not scientific, or even credible.

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@EM_RESUS Years ago at an ACEP class, the lecturer said 'never forget, people get very anxious just before they die' and I didn't hear anything else he said. Stuck with me.

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@EMPAthy_atrophy Tried it many times, personally and professionally. No.

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