Pre-med: If I could just get to med school
Med student: If I could just get to residency
Resident: If I could just be an attending
Attending: If I could just lock myself alone in a dark room and not speak to another living organism for a few eons
Dear Emergency Medicine colleagues,
When this mess is over, you can all order as many absurd CT scans as you want and I won’t even read the indications before clicking accept.
Keep up the amazing work. You are heroes.
ED: patient broke their leg, needs to be admitted for repair
ortho: COVID?
ED: they literally just fell and broke their leg
ortho: what if COVID made them short of breath and then they fell
ED:
ortho:
ED:
ortho: I think we should admit to medicine
taught in medical school: hexokinase phosphorylates glucose to make glucose-6-phosphate
not taught in medical school: how to help and comfort a patient worried about how they are going to pay for their necessary MRI
