gotta keep my eye on the ball the big picture i helped a bunch of folks to breathe probably helped a couple to live at least for one more day so i worked too hard and long for a shift no choice, boo-hoo my skills were sharp and my back was strong i was worthy
a couple of homicide detectives just showed up for my patient his daughter shot him he can't get an MRI due to fragments from a previous gunshot i wonder who shot him that time? his mom?
today i'm in the ER trying to treat an 89 year old woman babbling in an obscure urdu dialect that baffles her translator her grandson found her so annoying he locked her outside last night in zero degree weather first pushing her down giving her a subdural hematoma well, she is kind of annoying
the 85 year old man only fell down three steps but he fractured everything and has a brain bleed either he spends the rest of his life in pain and immobility or there’s not much left of that life either way it all over for him
shootings, stabbings, drunken beatings car accidents, covid, RSV all in the last day and a half gotta love working the holidays in the emergency room oh and here's a cardiac arrest ** ** **