This is much more rare than a cholecystectomy, but actually a relatively simple case and an ideal case for the robot (I'm not always a 🤖critic).🤔
This is a traumatic diaphragm laceration involving the pericardium. The robot will make repair of this straightforward.
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As I write this note they are still lying in the aisle and myself and another female physician have both been turned away. There is absolutely no good reason he couldn’t have followed his “protocol” and done his documentation while I assessed and helped the passenger. 5/
Some nurses abuse the incident reporting system like crazy. I once got written up for yelling at a nurse for not giving a calcium order to a patient with hyperkalemia and ecg changes because “the patients calcium was normal.” Somehow I was the safety issue.
Patients treat me like a Narc when I just suggest that their all day vomiting may be related to their daily marijuana use.
It’s kinda crazy, especially in this state. I’m the enemy if I don’t say weed is amazing and cures all ailments.
🚨 ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY! 4 people went in for routine knee surgery in Nashville and woke up PARALYZED FROM THE CHEST DOWN. Staff injected potassium chloride directly into their spines instead of anesthesia! A "pharmacy error" destroyed these lives. "Sorry" doesn't cut it! 🇺🇸🙏
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I’ve always heard the saying, “Nurses eat their young.”
Apparently they also sometimes eat young female attendings who are genuinely trying their best.
I will never understand this “girl against girl” culture within medicine😔
Boomers have just handed over Florida to the neoconservative donor elites.
Byron Donalds is a slave to foreign interests and his highest bidders.
Biggest downgrade in Florida history.
We spend enormous energy medically optimizing patients with hip fractures.
This new Bone & Joint Journal study suggests that one of the most important modifiable risks may be far less clinical: access to the operating room.
Among 5,414 patients, 38.5% waited more than 36 hours for surgery. In 27.5% of the entire cohort, the delay was logistical—not medical. After adjustment, these non-medical delays were associated with a 20% higher hazard of death at one year (HR 1.20), with risk increasing as time to surgery increased.
This observational study cannot prove that delay caused every excess death. But it makes one point difficult to ignore: operating room access is not simply an operational inconvenience. It is a patient-safety issue.
Protected hip-fracture lists, surgical capacity that matches demand, and time-to-surgery treated as a true quality metric should be priorities.
If a medication produced a mortality signal this large, we would demand attention. Operating room capacity deserves the same urgency.
@otaeducation@orthobullets@medbullets
Link to article: https://t.co/il6dStt0h4
We hear the comments about left lane drivers. Most people don’t realize that OCSO deputies enforce Florida’s Left Lane Law. During stops like these, deputies explain why cruising in the left lane is not just frustrating for other drivers - but dangerous for everyone. The left lane is for passing. Drivers who impede traffic can and do receive citations.