So, my favorite 1am phone call for a patient with a sore throat, cough, of course nasal discharge which goes by the technical term, snot. The patient is miserable as I roll into the exam room, feeling way more no thrilled about this than I hope I was showing. Nice enough gentleman who was not …
Day: January 31, 2019
Please don’t diagnose addiction…
Let me say this situation is the latest in a stream of crap that has rolled by me in my professional life. So tonight, a patient presented in the ER, that was reported to the ER physician by his wife and his bishop, as having a substance use problem. For those of you not in …