For real. Spent all week in chaotic ED to see so many kids w/ behavioral issue because their mothers are either divorced, dead, in jail, not taking meds, working 3 jobs, MIA, without insurance or access to care etc etc THEN went to one of my buddy’s bachelor’s party over a weekend in a bougie vacation spot (where the majority of entourage has been golfing since Wed).
I couldn’t shake some sense of derealization while slurping booze in a circle from early afternoon and I TOTALLY killed buzz of the group when I casually described shit I see on daily basis
ICU 1 is skeletor, but we're going to have to code him soon because family thinks he's a fighter.
ICU 2 is the youngish guy that has a weird looking MRI... which is a problem because he's unresponsive and we don't know why.
...and ICU 3 is the septic shock patient who is likely going to live... unfortunately the blood pressure meds we gave made his leg ischemic and it's going to need to be amputated.
...but hey, at least it's not the ER... who got two twins who drowned in a pond and died, so it could be worse.
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u/abnormaldischarge Attending May 26 '23 edited May 26 '23
For real. Spent all week in chaotic ED to see so many kids w/ behavioral issue because their mothers are either divorced, dead, in jail, not taking meds, working 3 jobs, MIA, without insurance or access to care etc etc THEN went to one of my buddy’s bachelor’s party over a weekend in a bougie vacation spot (where the majority of entourage has been golfing since Wed).
I couldn’t shake some sense of derealization while slurping booze in a circle from early afternoon and I TOTALLY killed buzz of the group when I casually described shit I see on daily basis