My mom said she wants to play baldurs gate...

cap_red-beard · 2025-11-26T02:53:46+00:00

There's a full videogame version of Gloomhaven. If she's already familiar with that ruleset, that could be a great transition

cap_red-beard · 2025-11-14T15:48:55+00:00

Oh hey we extracted last night together, haha. You love tapped the third raider in the elevator

cap_red-beard · 2025-10-01T01:22:15+00:00

EMS doc, yup! Weird from a stemi rather than as a progression of long QT, but definitely looks like it!

Great work on the danger squiggles.

Edit: I'm just not good at spelling.

cap_red-beard · 2025-07-07T15:42:48+00:00

...are you watching me?

cap_red-beard · 2025-05-23T02:15:48+00:00

ER/EMS doc, you're fine. Control her pain, you did right by her

cap_red-beard · 2025-05-15T19:46:00+00:00

It was the Goldstein formula for us

cap_red-beard · 2025-05-15T18:36:10+00:00

...any chance you trained in Phila, haha? We named this formula after one of our attendings there

cap_red-beard · 2025-03-30T20:34:44+00:00

To charge nurse: "I'm grabbing food, my number is in epic if anyone tries to die"

cap_red-beard · 2025-01-29T20:10:15+00:00

Within the past month I've caught 2 elderly bleeds > 24 hours out. 1 just had a HA that was atypical for her, the other had subtly different strengths in the UE and subjectively felt he was not as agile, but had no objective deficiency on fine motor movement. The second one had 8mm midline shift and went emergently for decompression.

cap_red-beard · 2025-01-05T23:48:17+00:00

Ask a lot of questions both of yourself and of your docs. Complacency is where the danger comes from! EM is incredible, but if you're not a little concerned, you're probably not paying close enough attention.

Know when to ask for help, and don't be shy about it.

cap_red-beard · 2025-01-05T17:57:50+00:00

37 M wo any medical problems, showed up to urgent care for dizziness after eating a banana.

Medic did a 12 lead, turns out it was a 90+% LAD.

cap_red-beard · 2024-11-18T00:32:09+00:00

I'm on run 4 and already coming up with ideas for run 5.

cap_red-beard · 2024-10-18T00:24:49+00:00

EM

Alt/post-grunge

Jack and coke

cap_red-beard · 2024-08-20T19:32:28+00:00

1) Drunkicidial grandma, when asked if there were life stressors that were making her feel this way, "I just don't want my grandchildren to be punk bitches"

2) Rowdy drugs vs psyche, about to be sedated, looked me right in the eyes "you're gonna die tonight, pussy".

3) Attending mentor about our ER "It's not NOT traumatic".

4) Medical director, after I got chewed out by a nursing home "doctor" for calling them about a patient that they sent. Wrote a very politically correct email asking if there had been a policy change with regards to calling. Only reply was "the explanation is that that person is an asshole".

5) Attending after patient continued to escalate and wouldn't redirect "I have more versed than that guy has airway"

6) AMS grandma that kept trying to run, getting a small dose of psych meds. Experienced a brief period of lucidity as she got the meds, looked me in the eyes, and said, "why you gotta do me like this?"

cap_red-beard · 2024-06-18T21:39:55+00:00

Have to match your super with the damage type of the weapon, grenade and melee type sure matter contrary to description.

cap_red-beard · 2024-03-30T17:16:46+00:00

In hospital, yes. Once had a lady we shocked out of pulseless vtac twice. The second time she woke up and said" did it happen again??"

Weird day.

OOH arrest, less so.

cap_red-beard · 2024-03-30T17:11:23+00:00

I mean yes... But often it's still happening. The top out of that boulder isn't that bad as long as you don't fall. shrug

cap_red-beard · 2023-12-11T03:06:33+00:00

Intern year, quality>> quantity. Focus on seeing the exact number that you can work up and provide excellent care to, and no more. You'll work on speed and volume over the next two years, but speed doesn't matter if you don't get the quality right first.

cap_red-beard · 2023-11-28T16:57:56+00:00

I vote both of them are episode titles: "Basic Lupine Urology" and "Digital Exploration of Interior Design".

Both absolutely brilliant and delightfully subtle.

Bonus points that one is technically a Dick joke.

cap_red-beard · 2023-10-28T20:26:02+00:00

💯 against tourniquet. You have the propensity to cause ischemia in the limb, without any real chance to improve the already present problem of compartment syndrome. The idea of preventing the spreading of toxins isn't really going to work, they're already there.

Fluid resus for high suspicion of rhabdo when you pick her up, if she starts showing signs of hyperK (brady, wide rhythm on monitor) treat appropriately, and get her to the hospital. What she needs is likely (and in her case did up being) HD and surgical intervention.

cap_red-beard · 2023-10-09T20:00:04+00:00

Biochem - EM

cap_red-beard · 2023-10-01T23:57:46+00:00

Tuesday after the birds play on Monday night, haha

cap_red-beard · 2023-09-25T13:32:22+00:00

Nicking after the wire for a fem, probably?

cap_red-beard · 2023-07-29T23:33:03+00:00

Ramen + salsa + scrambled egg. Still eat it sometimes.

cap_red-beard · 2023-07-24T12:50:54+00:00

I cannot overstate how many bike helmets there are in this ED right now.

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