A lack of posting has not been for lack of stories, rather lack of energy. I ran into a fellow student who is doing a pediatric urology rotation and we were comparing schedules and hours. When we determined that 80+ hours a week is a bit redunkulous, he encouraged me by saying "but at least you'll always have cool stories...and I just fixed another undescended testicle."
It is true, that the trauma service keeps your inbox full of over the top scenarios that simply cannot be fabricated. Toilet scrubber impalements, hand gun accidents while holding small child, stab wounds, boats and planes crashing, brakes going out on the way to the wedding, the list goes on. While perusing Typhon, the lovely program we use to document all of our patient encounters, I came across an amazing list of actual codes used to describe various incidents. Some of the following are codes that I would not be surprised to use in the last few weeks of this rotation.
E804.3 FALL IN ON OR FROM RAILWAY TRAIN INJURING PEDAL CYCLIST | ||
| E018.0 ACTIVITIES INVOLVING PIANO PLAYING | ||
E847 ACCIDENTS INVOLVING CABLE CARS NOT RUNNING ON RAILS | ||
E909.8 OTHER CATACLYSMIC EARTH SURFACE MOVEMENTS AND ERUPTIONS E876.9 UNSPECIFIED MISADVENTURE DURING MEDICAL CARE | ||
| E885.1 ACCIDENTAL FALL FROM ROLLER SKATES | ||
| ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY KNIVES SWORDS AND DAGGERS | ||
| ASSAULT BY LETTER BOMB | ||
| INJURY BY PAINTBALL GUN UNDETERMINED WHETHER ACCIDENTAL OR PURPOSELY INFLICTED | ||
| INJURY DUE TO WAR OPERATIONS BY UNINTENTIONAL DROWNING DUE TO INABILITY TO SURFACE OR OBTAIN AIR | ||
| PROLONGED STAY IN WEIGHTLESS ENVIRONMENT | ||
| As my preceptor likes to say, "You can't cure Stupid." | |
Your posts make me smile and I am hoping that when your rotations are all done ~ you will continue to keep us in the loop of all the wild stories that cross your path! Can't wait to see where your job will take you and what area will become your expertise.
ReplyDeleteLove ya!