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by btach 3mo ago
Saw something like this in one ER I worked at years ago. Guy in his 50's was brought in for seizures. Don't remember exactly where he came from, but it was some place where tapeworms from pigs was not unheard of. CT of head showed
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by btach 5mo ago
This happened at the hospital I currently work at a couple years ago. A patient was brought some chicken noodle soup hot in the thermos but didn't open it. A few days later I was working night shift on that floor when we all heard a so
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by btach 1y ago
I had a patient who checked in the ED for chest pain (felt like indigestion but he was intelligent enough to know it wasn't). Arrested just as we were getting vitals. CPR and shock -> came back awake and asked what happened. EKG aft
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by btach 1y ago
Empathy vs sympathy?
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by btach 2y ago
I agree - the comment tree has been baffling to me too, but rather amusing. I understand that some people disagree with your original post about using a particular book to sound people out, but I don't understand the harsh reactions to
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by btach 2y ago
Emergency Department
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by btach 2y ago
Unrestricted access doesn't mean unmonitored access. Narcs are counted at every single access and records of who pulled what are kept and audited.
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by btach 2y ago
Most ERs have a fast track area dedicated to this kind of thing.
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by btach 2y ago
There would definitely be an investigation, as all sentinel events are investigated. Management would do their RCA and I'm sure the issue with alarm fatigue would be ignored or underplayed (Something bad happen? make sure an alarm soun
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by btach 2y ago
Anecdote: At an ED I used to work at, our cardiac monitors got "upgraded" to another manufacturer. Silencing false alarms was a black hole of a game of whack-a-mole. You could never silence them all, another would just pop up to s
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by btach 2y ago
Ugh, that is why I have always done my own car work. Many potential downsides, but for me the upsides have outweighed the downsides.
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by btach 2y ago
Related, when I had to live in a certain area that had a high bike theft rate, I got myself a pink bicycle. In the year I was there, it was never stolen. Well, except for the seat (which was black).
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by btach 3y ago
I appreciate the Star Trek reference (V'ger incase somebody doesn't know what I'm talking about - Star Trek, The Motion Picture). That movie awed me as a kid.
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by btach 3y ago
Gravity well. You would exit hyperspace before hitting the planet. Same concept as how the Interdictor class Star Destroyers prevent hyperspace/pull ships out of hyperspace.
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by btach 3y ago
...#sublimeshame? I don't understand what is shameful. Nor do I see anything to be proud of either. It's a fantastic tool. I used Sublime Text for quite a while at version 2 and eventually bought a license. Later upgraded to 4. St
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by btach 3y ago
Thanks! That made me literally laugh out loud.
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by btach 3y ago
Tldr: Because there already exist many photographs of what I photograph that are of good quality, and time seems to be better spent obtaining such photographs from others' collection than photographing them directly. This gets me think
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by btach 3y ago
I appreciate it exactly how it is - I find a simple blog like this much more accessible and less off-putting than anything else. That, of course, is just me. I also don't think you're wrong with what his writings could become with
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by btach 3y ago
I can't be the only one who looked at the top picture and thought it was Mr. Bean about to spit out toothpaste on some hapless soul as he drove by.
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by btach 3y ago
Are you me from a parallel universe? My wife does this, bless her heart.
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by btach 4y ago
"It's Boquet, dear!" ... I sympathize. Part of me also wishes to be a fly on the wall for these interactions.
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by btach 4y ago
I almost spit my tea out. You made me laugh.
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by btach 4y ago
I've read a few fan fiction stories that I think were quite good. Protagonist wasn't superhuman, was effectively foiled as seemed appropriate, had flawed notions and perceptions, etc. That being said, I've read many more fanf
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by btach 4y ago
Yes. I initially ran into binfmt_misc issues, did a bit of reading on Justine's github repo for Cosmopolitan and found it can be an issue, especially if you have WINE installed. Once I disabled it systemctl stop systemd-binfmt&quot
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by btach 4y ago
I've been pretty happy with Fantasque Sans Mono.
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by btach 4y ago
Looking at the title and skimming the diagrams, vaguely reminds me of a souped-up TIS-100.
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by btach 4y ago
ED nurse here. Of course n=1: "can be added" doesn't means "will be added". Our ED regularly boards admitted patients to the point we have a single resuscitation room left for new patients checking in or coming in v
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by btach 4y ago
One of the reviews on the first link alluded it was $1500
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by btach 5y ago
That's interesting. I am only speaking from experience working in the ED as an RN and do not have any experience with studies like this that give medications that are not positively known (by myself). What you (and others say) actually
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by btach 5y ago
The nurse administering it is most certainly liable for what s/he administers. It is a very big no-no to blindly administer a medication of which you cannot reasonably verify what it is. To push a syringe or start a pump of something t

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