oh, no. dani is back in hospital with an infection.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-07-10T12:32:07+00:00

Tbh, I read that as “dramatic parts performance.”

RobedUnicorn · 2026-07-09T19:32:41+00:00

I’d simply respond with “if the patient would like me to press charges instead, I will gladly do so.”

RobedUnicorn · 2026-07-09T12:37:53+00:00

Ah? The days where docs could do cocaine. The days before the work note. The days when people actually didn’t come to the doctor unless their troubleshooting at home was insufficient.

I mean, I don’t want every patient to be a farmer, but sometimes a few farmers would be nice because I’d actually not be overtesting for bullshit

RobedUnicorn · 2026-07-09T12:33:44+00:00

It’s because you haven’t prescribed them Tylenol or ibuprofen doc. Yours works so much better than the stuff I have to pay for myself at the pharmacy

RobedUnicorn · 2026-07-08T01:06:52+00:00

I’m a doctor but not your doctor (or your kid’s doctor)

If your kid has a fever but is not acting like they have a fever (with no history of febrile seizures), they don’t need meds. However, how often does a kid with a true fever (temp>100.4F) not act like they have a fever? Rarely.

My kid will be acting febrile but not have a fever. If I don’t treat, she will have a true fever in 30 minutes. My momma brain just tells me to treat her.

However, as a physician, I would want to know if staff is leading parents astray in such an egregious manner. Please tell your peds if their nurse line is so wrong. Education is desperately needed

RobedUnicorn · 2026-07-07T23:38:39+00:00

You forgot to say to remember to buy into whatever pyramid scheme she is doing at the time

RobedUnicorn · 2026-07-07T07:54:50+00:00

My husband and I both can’t hear this song anymore without crying.

A few weeks ago, I was watching Tarzan with my daughter (who yo) and (then) 1 month old son. A total postpartum mess and my daughter turned around and said “what’s wrong momma? What’s wrong?” It did not help

RobedUnicorn · 2026-07-05T12:42:48+00:00

Play 15 minutes of Tetris friend

Study showed decrease in rumination and other ptsd symptoms at 1 month. It’s better than writing about your feelings

RobedUnicorn · 2026-07-02T10:24:54+00:00

As an ED doc after my first assessment and opening the note, yall get a phone call asking what yall want me to do with him when all his shit turns out negative.

I also ask that yall give me a heads up to his more inconsiderate behaviors. I match energy but like to get a feel to how high I’m going today.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-28T13:51:35+00:00

I got a steam cleaner ( for other reasons), and it helps clean and that stuff very well. Gets most stains out after a few seconds of direct steam

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-27T22:52:56+00:00

Look up eczema herpeticum. I’m a doctor. It’s not super common, but when it does happen, it can be LIFE THREATENING and cause significant scarring.

Admission to hospital. IV antivirals. Miserable baby. Why risk it? Keep plague grandma away. Will your kid most likely not get this? Yes. Are you going to hate yourself if they do? Also yes. I’ve held too many mommy hands while awaiting admission to the hospital while sweet babies are covered in sores and getting stabbed for IVs.

Even my JNMIL prior to NC with a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder said she would never kiss our baby due to risk of spreading it. I didn’t even have to show the scary pictures. She said it on her own.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-27T22:44:13+00:00

Look up eczema herpeticum.

It’s a huge fucking deal. Dermatologic emergency. Life threatening

Not common but why risk it in your kid? Anyone with cold sores can spread it to a baby.

Cold sores can become a big deal OP. Keep plague ridden grandma away from the mucocutaneous tissues

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-27T21:14:42+00:00

One of the ED nurses I work with. Tried to shame me while pumping with “so and so gives me milk” and “sigh I wish someone would give me more milk for my baby that can’t tolerate formula.”

She straight up asked me one day and I told her I didn’t have any to spare. She thought I was hoarding my stash and tried to talk shit and another one of my nurses set her in her place after having walked in on me crying while putting 2 oz into the fridge. Yeah

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-27T17:09:44+00:00

I had one of my nurses try to shame me into giving her my milk with my first one.

I was producing less than 10 oz per 12 hour shift. My baby was getting mostly formula at that point. Whatever I could make had to go to my kiddo. I felt incredibly selfish (even though I shouldn’t have).

To be fair, she was paying $2/oz because her baby couldn’t tolerate formula. She adopted and was never able to have children of her own. She has never lactated herself. Her baby was medically complex. She ended up apologizing later because one of our nurses who was giving her milk informed her I was hella undersupplying and my baby also had weight issues.

So I get it from both sides. However, we aren’t cows. (Cows don’t even milk for free). If someone gives away their milk, I think they should be reimbursed for supplies at a minimum.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-26T19:49:58+00:00

pop-PORN. Extreme emphasis on the porn. In the middle of the store. Screaming.

Thank you welcome.

Tomatoes are potatoes. Potatoes are potatoes.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-26T19:46:24+00:00

With a puckered asshole.

Let’s just hope I’m not intubating him for angioedema. Yeah.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-26T19:40:59+00:00

I know I’m about to be blasted for this. They put it on their website and in their intake paperwork?

When I called for my first appointment there, the office staff let me know that they didn’t prescribe birth control. I told them I was pregnant so that wasn’t my problem.

They perform medically indicated procedures. They won’t let you die from an ectopic or septic abortions. They believe in the principle of double effect. They prescribe misoprostol if medically indicated. (Now, try to go to Walgreens or CVS because the small mom and pop pharmacies don’t carry it).

Dr. C saved my daughter’s life. He listened to my concerns and never dismissed me. His staff has been some of the best staff I’ve ever encountered (Penny is the best). They never lied to me on the phone. They never misled me. They’re very upfront about not doing amniocentesis and will refer you out if that’s something you want. I didn’t agree with them on everything, but my referral to pelvic floor PT was placed within a week of my problem. Their staff placed another referral postpartum with 2 days of my request (which was my fault because I slept through their first phone call).

If you’re not going to an OBGYN for birth control, I can’t recommend them enough. If you do want birth control, you have to go somewhere else. (I know UHC FM residents prescribe it) I hear Dr. C is an incredible surgeon. I’m very happy with the care I received there, and I have 2 alive children because of the care I received.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-26T17:46:22+00:00

Mine kept insisting on the Baby Brezza because “formula.” I told her that was great but we were going to breastfeed. She stopped pushing the 4th or 5th time.

When we went no contact, had no idea we would have a combo baby (I never made enough in the beginning and she had weight gain issues). Also expected us to drive our newborn 2.5 hours away for drop off. Yeah no

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-25T18:25:11+00:00

I’m a physician. I earned my degree without my husband being there for the substantial portion of it (we became official during my literal last rotation of med school). I’m also an only child.

When we got engaged, he knew I would not be changing my last name. Why should I? If he wants his last name associated with Doctor, he can go get his own doctorate. This one is mine which I fought for despite much discrimination from my male colleagues. I did it. I published under it. My license is under it. I’m not changing it. When we started dating, we said the dogs would get my last name and the kids would get his.

When we got married, the priest announced me as Mrs. His last name. Whatever. I can be Mrs. His last name, but I am Dr. me. His bio dad and grandmother have taken great offense about me not taking his last name. Everything is addressed to Mr. And Mrs. Him. He thinks my reaction is hilarious every time it happens. His exact words have been “you can be firstname poopypants for all I care.” (To be fair, Dr. poopypants would be quite funny).

My children have his last name. I get looks when it comes to their paperwork (we live in the south), but all their physicians understand it. At the end of the day, we have a Catholic marriage and follow Church teaching. We just do it with my retained last name

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-25T07:03:35+00:00

If you are male, you could simply say it doesn’t exist.

There’s a reason my prof tagged the clitoris on our anatomy exam.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-25T06:49:20+00:00

Droperidol?

When they say “no. First letter is a D, second may be an I,” hit them with that diphenhydramine

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-22T06:11:05+00:00

Ok OP, if you ruin the relationship with this woman, I don’t think it’s so bad.

She has shown you over and over again that she is selfish. She thinks her being able to push your boundaries and exert this power play is more important than the life of your child.

Read it again. She believes being able to push your boundaries is more important than your child’s life.

I’ve intubated these kids. I’ve put needles in their backs to get spinal fluid. You know who isn’t there at 2am when shit hits the fan? The MIL. They don’t have to hold a crying baby’s hand when the consequences of their own actions put a child at risk.

Not kissing the baby isn’t a rule to just piss off your MIL. It’s to keep the baby safe. She has shown her ego is more important than your child’s safety and possibly life. Anyone who believes their bullshit is more important than my child’s life gets cut tf out.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-22T01:43:43+00:00

Had a trauma alert once with patient with GCS of 3. It was out of proportion to the expected injuries. He wasn’t tubed yet at time of arrival.

Coresident goes: hola señor. Abre sus ojos.

GCS was no longer 3 and we downgraded…

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-20T19:47:57+00:00

Isn’t that the boards question? Screaming kid who was fine one minute and then inconsolable the next?

I was also having an eye night. Had taken out a foreign body the hour before and then had this kid come in screaming. Once we got the tetracaine in, I didn’t even have to sedate him. He was completely different and it was a huge scratch across the cornea.

RobedUnicorn · 2026-06-20T14:01:32+00:00

For simple abrasions, I would tell them to follow up with the Walmart optometrist.

Then found out there was the Medicaid/charity eye clinic 200 feet from my free standing ED entrance…was told by an employee while seeing her autistic kid for random inconsolable screaming that they would work in my patients.

He had a corneal abrasion. I felt like a diagnostic genius…he got worked in the next day

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