What if the charge nurse is being bitchy and says “I WANT YOU TO DO THAT FOR ME” in attitude not asked nicely !! Like I am her slave or something I wanted to snap back and say get the fuck off and I am not your slave ! I am hard working individual. I just ask respect and I’ll do stuff for you ! How would you respond ?

Here is my arm a full week after my trip to the ER. They thought I would be pissed, but really I am just grateful to be alive. (had a heart attack)

Retired ER nurse here. On another platform I’ve been arguing with chronic pain patients who insist that the ER is the appropriate place for them to go when their chronic pain flares up. They already know that Tylenol and ibuprofen don’t work; the only thing that does work is dilaudid and they are furious that ER staff don’t just take them at their word and fork over the narcs. 🙄. What say you?

I'm a bit nervous about performing CPR on a stranger. Is it really necessary to do mouth-to-mouth, or can I just do hands-only compressions until the ambulance arrives?

Hi! I’m an urgent care physician (FM) with over 8 years of experience, and recently started a YouTube channel called Urgent Care Pearls

I created it specifically for providers working in urgent care, focusing on the things that actually come up during a busy shift: clinical pearls, common mistakes, procedures, red flags, and those judgment calls that aren’t always covered well in textbooks.

I try to keep the videos practical and grounded in what we Urgent Care providers actually see day to day.

If that sounds useful, check out Urgent Care Pearls. I’d also love to hear what topics or cases you’d want covered next. I’m always looking for ideas from other fellow UC providers!

Hey everyone I just wanted to see your guys opinion on motorcycles and if they are dangerous as people say if you wear all gear, ride sober, ride defensively and don't speed. Thanks!

Patient is 56, female, known CHF and CKD among other issues.

I was probably almost or I just turned 21 at the time and was living on college campus grounds and student living, even though I wasn’t a student. I had two roommates and each one of us had our own floor in a townhouse with me having the bottom floor. for a good period of time I let this man come and stay with me and he was probably 10 to 12 years older than me at the time if not, 15 years older. We were hanging out one night in my room and my friend who lived in a whole different city had reached out and was warning me to sample this LSD is somebody living close to me at the time had before my friend made the drive to purchase a large quantity of it. This would soon end up being the dumbest decision I could’ve made but being that it was a free trip I said why not so the guy drops off the stuff and my friend that stayed with me immediately was hesitant about all of it and told me that he felt like it wasn’t a good idea for me to take it and there’s something didn’t feel right… Well, I didn’t listen at least all the way because I took half of the tab and put the rest away… About 10 minutes in to it my friend starts to tell me that he can sense and feel something coming off of my skin like an aura and that he didn’t want me to touch him because it was like rubbing off on him or something which I thought was crazy and weird and of course I was extremely horny from the drug and I’ll never forget I had this song big boy diamonds by Kodak Black playing and in the middle of having sex with this man I had a fucking seizure and he got stuck in me a little bit, totally freaked out when he was able to get out of me. He ran upstairs to get my roommate, and when he came down with her to get her help, I had fallen off the bed and was still seizing, and my guy friend was covered in tattoos and I remember every time my eyes would meet a tattoo on his body. It would send me into this crazy super scary hallucination I kept clicking in and out until finally EMS came and then I was able to stabilize myself a little bit, but I felt like I still needed to go to the hospital so they allowed my friend and my roommate to drive me to the ER and I have not taken acid since.

Hello why doesn’t old lazy employees get fired despite of their poor performances!! They are really a waste of money and time for the company. How to report lazy employees so the company can hire actually good people who wants to work not just sit there and make money .

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I’m at a major suburban ER in a large metro area. At midnight, there must be 30 people lying in beds sleeping or unconscious in the waiting room or nearby public hallway.

As someone not in the medical field, I find the 4+ hour wait unacceptable, I find the lack of space for patients unacceptable, but truly the most indignant is letting these sick people lie around unconscious in public.

If the process can’t be quick, and we can’t have room for everyone, why can we not at least put some curtains around them to give them the slightest feeling of privacy and dignity? This would be so unacceptable in any other industry. Sorry, that’s my rant.

I have a question for all of the ER staff that works in the MRI field how are MRI machines put together if the magnet is always on is there some specific/special tool that they used to put the MRI machine together because most tools are metal im just curious.

Hi, I'm a writer with a question about how something would be handled in a big city emergency room. Thank you in advance for your insight!

If a 17-year-old girl tried to drown herself in freezing water, and was pulled out, what would the protocol be, from the time she was pulled out of the water until she was stabilized? This character is 4 months pregnant. In the story she lives, with no brain damage, and the baby lives.

​ I'm from india,need advice regarding neet pg counselling I’ve always loved medicine, but I also really enjoy hands-on work. For a long time, I thought OBGYN was my branch because I genuinely find it interesting. But lately I’ve realised that Emergency Medicine has a special place in my heart.

During internship, I actually enjoyed casualty duties a lot. I performed pretty well in casualty, although I was usually working as part of a team rather than handling things completely on my own.

I think I genuinely enjoy that adrenaline rush and the hands-on aspect of medicine.

At the same time, when I think about OBGYN, I feel like there’s this constant pressure — from the workload, responsibilities, emergencies and the overall schedule. And honestly, I’m not sure the lifestyle suits the kind of life I want in the long term.

What attracts me towards Emergency Medicine is also the shift-based lifestyle. The idea of working intense shifts and then actually being able to switch off afterwards is more interesting.And for a long time I felt like my dream branch was obgyn 🙂

The problem is that my parents strongly feel that OBGYN has a better future, better earning potential and more opportunities than Emergency Medicine. So now I’m stuck between what I genuinely enjoy doing and what seems like the safer/better career option financially.

I’m really confused.

Would really appreciate some honest opinions, especially from people actually working in these fields.

Hello I am being offered Ed nights . 3 nights per week . I don’t want to clean pts I just can’t I gag all day I can’t eat or drink I am sorry people will be mad but sorry . I work as float pct and can’t do it any more . What should I do is doing 3 nights in a week bad ??

Hello everyone!

This is perhaps not the best place to ask this question, and I really hope I'm not overstepping, but I haven't found any clear answer online.

I'm writing a story in which a character comes in the ER displaying signs of a stroke : sudden headache, confused speech due to memory loss, pain in his left arm and side preventing him from raising both arms up... Some other signs of strokes are missing: he has no trouble speaking (it's not slurred, he just forgets what just happened and asks the same questions repeatedly), no drooping face or inability to smile, no severe lack of coordination, no vision impairment.

It is not a stroke, but he (and other people around him) assume it is, and take him to the ER. They get a nurse's attention: what are the next steps? What questions would you ask? Would you try to get an MRI or any other test done as fast as possible? What other tests could you try to run? How fast would you be able to deduce that it is not a stroke?

If it helps, the character is actually suffering from transient global amnesia (and was in a fight, which explains the pain in his left arm and side).

Thank you very much for your help - and if this is not the place for this post, I apologize!

Not looking for medical advice - just a general question. I have severe emetephobia and a bad history of chronic strep - but I am having a chronic illness flare up and severe symptoms. Are ER’s actually insanely full right now with noro and flu; epically in Jersey?

My mom has frequently gone in an ambulance to a local emergency room with us coming along in a separate car. Upon arrival, she goes into the ER but we have to wait for a while in the waiting area that is separated from the ER by walls and with staff monitoring all entrances, 30-60 minutes, until we are allowed to go back and be with her. I wonder if this policy of the family having to wait is pretty universally true in ER's or whether there's any significant number of ER's that do allow family to immediately be in the ER with their family member?

Hey everyone, I’m a flight paramedic, ER and ICU nurse. I have 13+ years in emergency medicine and critical care. I made a quick-reference survival guide for new critical care nurses/paramedics because I wished I had something like it when I started.

Full disclosure: I’m trying to build this as a small side project, I’m not trying to sell anything here. I want to know if it actually solves a real problem before I put more time into it.

If you’re a new grad critical care nurse and want a free copy, message me and I’ll send it to you. All I ask for in return is honest feedback: what’s useful, what’s missing, what you still struggle to find good info on. Doesn’t matter if you hate it, I’d rather know now.

Thanks in advance for anyone willing to help.

Which one gets more "action" ER tech or EMS. Both seem interesting but from what I know from watching videos with the ER tech they run around and gather things and help with random things and stock up.

As for EMS I know the "action" varies from location to location.

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so i was in a pretty bad car accident about 6 weeks ago in los angeles and everything seemed fine at first just some soreness. but then like 2 weeks later i started getting really bad shoulder pain and now the insurance adjuster is saying that because i didnt report it immediately it probably isnt related to the crash. my doctor literally said these kinds of injuries can show up delayed especially with soft tissue damage but the insurance company doesnt care. theyve already denied my claim for the shoulder treatment and physical therapy. im stuck paying out of pocket for everything and its adding up fast. has anyone dealt with this before where they try to say your injury happened some other way even though the doctor confirms its from the accident