#emergency room

May 17th 2022

First night in E.R. ✅

dreamistrue:

I Carry Your Heart
I carry your heart with me
I carry it in my heart
I am never without it

Anywhere I go you go, my dear
And whatever is done by only me
Is your doing, my darling

I fear no fate
For you are my fate, my sweet
I want no world
For beautiful you are my world, my true

And it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
Here is the root of the root
And the bud of the bud
And the sky of the sky of a tree called life
Which grows higher than the soul can hope
Or mind can hid
And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart
I carry it in my heart

Love when Abby tries to say this poem to Luka as her weading vows <3

My favorite night spent in the ER as a med student I put almost 70 sutures into a guys hand who decided he’d try to blow it off with a firework.  

I had put in about 4 sutures prior to that. 

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO BLOW YOURSELVES UP THIS EVENING. 

Otherwise, you will be helping to teach some other overly excited medical student learn how to suture. 

Consider yourself warned. 

“[C]ontrary to common belief, the US does have universal health care. It’s called ‘emergency rooms.’ If you can drag yourself to one, they’ll take care of you, often with superb care—and often a hefty bill. It’s the most cruel and expensive form of universal care known, but at least it’s there.”

–Noam Chomsky, “COVID-19 Has Exposed the US under Trump as a 'Failed State,'” in The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2021), 264

They also gave me a framed copy of my very first call sheet. I was something like No. 47 on that — and the past two years, I’ve been No. 1. It’s like I clawed my way to the top of the call sheet.

- Laura Innes (x)

3x08 ‘Union Station’

ER text posts part ???

Healthcare in the US sucks.

It really…just…sucks.

There’s this big influenza epidemic this year. This has been the worst flu season in like 8 years I believe and the ER rooms have been flooded with patients. 

But I don’t have the flu.

I have acid reflux and if you’re not familiar, its when your belly gets bloated, you hiccup nonstop and other symptoms like chest pain and what not. How it comes about, there are a variety of reasons as to why mostly with if you eat too much greasy food, eaten something different from your normal diet, etc. Its been a week I’ve had it and the hiccups and bloating have gone down immensely but that chest pain is still there and very uncomfortable. People keep telling me to go to the hospital but I hate going for:

1. Unhelpful
2. Long wait
3. Expensive

And that’s exactly what I got from it. I waited 4 hours to receive only a max of 10 minutes of actual face to face interaction with a doctor, a trash doctor, a higher dosage of the medicine I am currently taking, and a $100 copay bill.

I could’ve stayed home and suffered for all of this

- Emergency couple : K Drama 

I was a physician’s assistant in the ER and drove a “little tikes” plastic ride on car to work. When I finished my shift I went to the employee lot and my child-sized car was being towed by a full size tow truck.

I love playing an accidental game of hide-and-seek in the Emergency room. Did I go to the bathroom? Did someone stick me in one of the secret rooms? Did someone put me back where I wasn’t supposed to be so I accidentally surprise another nurse coming into my room with a lady in a wheelchair? Nothing is certain! Chaos reins supreme!