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Hit me with your best patient crash out story

Because my angry uterus could use some cheer. And I just had a real memorable one. Guy comes in for a completely elective ortho surgery....

"I think Dr. Fauci deserves to be hanged for what he did."

This was said by my patient, a semi-retired health professional, at a routine followup visit. I have a policy of not debating with cult members...

If youre neurosurgery and gave a paramedic a thrombus around 2019

Im sorry if you were joking. So Im a medic and sometime around 2019 we got a cool new hospital that could do cool new mechanical...

The Catch-22 of an Interventional Radiology procedure

Incoming a patient with massive lower GIB. Hypotensive. HH dropped several units. GI won't do a colo since pt is unprepped. CT angio positive for...