I mentioned pulmonary fibrosis in my last post. We had three big cases on our ICU in April, all three of them pretty difficult. Pulmo...

Somebody tried to tell me today that we aren't allowed to ride around dangling from the elbows on the cardiac walkers, making TIE fight...

I apologize for the brevity of this post. For those of you that follow my scrawlings on Something Awful, I’ve been doing an AMA for the las...

First impressions, outside the hospital, are predictable. Height, weight, color of skin, expression; handshake, attention span, first and l...

I genuinely wasn’t prepared for the popularity of this blog, or for some of the sequelae that followed it. I thought a few people might rea...

Well, I definitely got the crazy little lady this morning, and no, my attempt at jinxing her didn’t work. But more on that in a bit. M...

I had Friday off. I spent it on meaningless bullshit and faffery, for the most part; my sister and I had a meeting with her new guidance cou...

Every morning at my main facility we all cluster around the front station, receive our assignments, collect our walkie-talkies, and get a qu...

Today started off much better than yesterday. Got my pts back; the little old man with bradycardia recovered overnight and was able to go ho...