Top 10 Physician Findings This Week
What have doctors been witness to this week? Here are my top 10 choice tidbits:
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30 cc’s of pus in someone’s throat
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A gun in a trauma XRay
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A botched surgery from a neighboring hospital
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A surgeon’s sneeze droplets
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The common cold is banned from hospitals
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A baby born with 20 friends and family in the delivery room
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A newborn put in a plastic bag and thrown in a pond (he lived)
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Rats, fleas, cockroaches, and bedbugs in British hospitals
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An outraged patient with an anal fissure
Welcome to the wild world of medicine.This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
That was a very restrained “pus” post. Usually it seems that doctors and nurses (from the blogs I’ve read, and ER visits that we’ve had), are THRILLED when they get to drain pus
I can see it being satisfying as it’s something concrete that you can do that has immediate results to help a patient feel better, but anecdotally, it seems that a lot of medical professionals really seem to like doing it.
Great roundup.