Fred "just call me Fred" Chu

Fred Chu, M.D., emergency medicine, local catanana
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[Fred "just call me Fred" Chu @Fred_Chu]

@terminalyill3st After opening the original post to see what folks were talking about:

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@EM_RESUS @WesElyMD I mean, if someone's getting tPa in the ER and they start getting swollen lips, chances are good it's angioedema, as I saw a few times in residency😅😬

[Fred "just call me Fred" Chu @Fred_Chu]

@EM_RESUS @WesElyMD Pretty much this! That and sometimes we don't have time or resources (non-cross-linked EMR's, system downtime at the perfect time, etc.) to get a history, esp if our main historian can't speak thanks to swelling all over the airway.

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@Caulimovirus Hell yeah

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@SBing5 @docfingerguns "Why...why did you tell us that rounds were at 8 am and not 7?!"
"To test the limits of my ability."

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@generalorthomd Have also met plenty of folks who use service dog and therapy dog interchangeably. Deeeeefinitely not the case. Training's different, legal standards are different, the whole nine yards.

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@generalorthomd I hypothetically may have seen a few dozen frauds over the years.

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@metoprolmao

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@colmjmccarthy ...I need to get a new alarm clock tone

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@LadyInterlocks @jtrebach

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@docfingerguns I'm very, very glad that my M2 class was way cooler, after we all separated from the M1 campus to our branch campuses

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@docfingerguns Program directors must be hokage's

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@docfingerguns (but for real, some people in my M1 class stole and hid material from the library so that no one else could access them to study, it was pathetically hilarious)

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@docfingerguns Did Jim steal the book I was using to study head and neck anatomy? Yes. Did I headbutt him until he cried like a little baby? Also yes.

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@RNickGorton @YadiraR787 @AshleyGWinter Likelihood ratio of ten thousand for serious, hospitalizable pathology

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@vitaminpac1 Side note, had a few pt's who came over from Urgent Cares with a similar scenario. "They sent me here to get a cast/splint."

Me:

[Fred "just call me Fred" Chu @Fred_Chu]

@vitaminpac1 ...from the ER? What the hell? Dude that's messed up. Besides, splints are some of my favorite thing to do.

An ER that 'doesn't do splints' is no ER at all.

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@blondemedSJW (this is absolutely a joke, also remember salicylate toxicity because why not)

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@blondemedSJW Sorry the only thing I remember about UWorld and poor hearing is presbycusis and maybe acoustic schwannomas, therefore everyone hard of hearing is getting a CT