Happy New Year!

To everyone planning to ring in the New Year tonight, a word of advice based on a recent patient of mine: if you're an 18 year old punk who weighs a buck twenty tops, it's probably not a good idea to pick a fight with a bouncer (and lose), only to later pick a fight with a cop (and lose), and then finally pick a fight with the medic trying to treat you.

Stay safe, and remember the holidays are much more fun to celebrate outside the ER.

One Way To Get Attention

Feel like you're lost in the shuffle in a busy ER? Try firing a flare gun at the ceiling. You'll definitely get attention, but probably not the kind you wanted.

Four More Years

Love being home, love catching up with the family, love being accepted to med school. The acceptance, however, does not mean that I am capable of diagnosing the perplexing array of symptoms experienced by assorted relatives. Nor does it mean that I hold the solution to health care reform.

Sorry guys.

Zombie Epidemiology

As I've mentioned before, we in the Big City ED have some of our best people working on Zombie preparedness. It's about time the New York Times took notice.

O Holy Night

Merry Christmas, one and all!

Home For the Holidays

Safely back home with friends and family for a few days to celebrate the holidays. Good luck to everyone still traveling (if you're stranded, I now know of at least one airport that will gladly sell you a $35 H1N1 vaccine while you wait)!

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

You know the Christmas season must be upon us when the freezing cold EtOHers help spread some holiday cheer by offering the ED staff a spare pint of Dubra.