Life in an Emergency Room

Check out the column on the right side of the page where I have a list of "Favorite Medical Blogs". During my limited years of me...

This past week, my residency program had the opportunity to spend time with the local fire department doing an "Extrication" cours...

I am officially a PGY 2 (post-graduate 2 nd year resident)!!! I am so excited that I'm going to start rocking the above scrubs to work...

Last month, I was stuck in the ICU. Not that I didn't like it...I just felt really out of my element. People in the ICU are really si...

I had a tough night last night. I had to tell a mother that her baby had cancer. Certain things can mean a worse prognosis according to the ...

Back in September, our residency program had a practical skills lab where we got to perform venous cutdowns, diagnostic peritoneal lavage, c...

This is what an intern looks like while learning how to perform a FAST exam on a live patient. It was AWESOME!

I promise - I have a very good excuse for why I have taken THIS LONG to post. I've been on Block Nights for the whole month of October. ...

I'm sort of getting the hang of things.... I have decided that being the House Officer is a really awful job. My first 24 hr shift was ...

I had my first job as a HO today. Never thought of myself as a HO. Actually, HO stands for House Officer...meaning I was in charge of every...