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Saw something like this in one ER I worked at years ago. Guy in his 50's was brought in for seizures. Don't remember exactly where he came from, but it was some place where tapewor…

This happened at the hospital I currently work at a couple years ago. A patient was brought some chicken noodle soup hot in the thermos but didn't open it. A few days later I was w…

I had a patient who checked in the ED for chest pain (felt like indigestion but he was intelligent enough to know it wasn't). Arrested just as we were getting vitals. CPR and shock…

Empathy vs sympathy?

I agree - the comment tree has been baffling to me too, but rather amusing. I understand that some people disagree with your original post about using a particular book to sound pe…

Emergency Department

Unrestricted access doesn't mean unmonitored access. Narcs are counted at every single access and records of who pulled what are kept and audited.

Most ERs have a fast track area dedicated to this kind of thing.

There would definitely be an investigation, as all sentinel events are investigated. Management would do their RCA and I'm sure the issue with alarm fatigue would be ignored or und…

Anecdote: At an ED I used to work at, our cardiac monitors got "upgraded" to another manufacturer. Silencing false alarms was a black hole of a game of whack-a-mole. You could neve…

Ugh, that is why I have always done my own car work. Many potential downsides, but for me the upsides have outweighed the downsides.

Related, when I had to live in a certain area that had a high bike theft rate, I got myself a pink bicycle. In the year I was there, it was never stolen. Well, except for the seat …

I appreciate the Star Trek reference (V'ger incase somebody doesn't know what I'm talking about - Star Trek, The Motion Picture). That movie awed me as a kid.

Gravity well. You would exit hyperspace before hitting the planet. Same concept as how the Interdictor class Star Destroyers prevent hyperspace/pull ships out of hyperspace.

...#sublimeshame? I don't understand what is shameful. Nor do I see anything to be proud of either. It's a fantastic tool. I used Sublime Text for quite a while at version 2 and ev…

Thanks! That made me literally laugh out loud.

Tldr: Because there already exist many photographs of what I photograph that are of good quality, and time seems to be better spent obtaining such photographs from others' collecti…

I appreciate it exactly how it is - I find a simple blog like this much more accessible and less off-putting than anything else. That, of course, is just me. I also don't think you…

I can't be the only one who looked at the top picture and thought it was Mr. Bean about to spit out toothpaste on some hapless soul as he drove by.

Are you me from a parallel universe? My wife does this, bless her heart.

"It's Boquet, dear!" ... I sympathize. Part of me also wishes to be a fly on the wall for these interactions.

I almost spit my tea out. You made me laugh.

I've read a few fan fiction stories that I think were quite good. Protagonist wasn't superhuman, was effectively foiled as seemed appropriate, had flawed notions and perceptions, e…

Yes. I initially ran into binfmt_misc issues, did a bit of reading on Justine's github repo for Cosmopolitan and found it can be an issue, especially if you have WINE installed. On…

I've been pretty happy with Fantasque Sans Mono.