Not quite a Garmin
by dr-exmedicNot all advice is as applicable as its purveyors would have you believe.
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Not all advice is as applicable as its purveyors would have you believe.
No, this has nothing to do with physicians in Nevada. Rather, it’s a column I find entertaining about “MD Envy,” a vague affliction of a few EMS providers who really, really would rather be doctors.
One of these days, I’m going to hold a class, and invite both RNs and medics. All I’m going to teach them is how to spell Crohn’s disease correctly: Crohn’s. Not Chron’s, Chrones, or any of the other creative variations. Crohn’s.
It turns out that the medical team responsible for therapeutic hypothermia at my hospital is called the Post-Arrest Reanimation Service. I will forever love that word, reanimation, as applied to resuscitation.
Hopefully, there’s at least a T-shirt under your poly/cotton epauletted work shirt….
Do we really need to be told how to get patients from point A to point B?
And this isn’t limited to EMS people by the way, but that’s where I have the most experience with it: people who report vital signs as “stable” when they’ve only taken one set. The dictionary definition of stable: “8. (of a patient’s condition) exhibiting no significant change.” If you only have one set, you cannot [...]
Today, I attended a lecture on the effects of obesity on the survival of trauma patients. They heavily advertised not only the seminar, but the fact that they were serving lunch.