tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post4502252296583364461..comments2024-02-18T01:56:38.508-06:00Comments on M.D.O.D.: The Exodus Continues911DOChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06466669111561150174noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-6337091163584016342007-08-19T21:21:00.000-05:002007-08-19T21:21:00.000-05:00Good Sunday evening on the iceberg to you, Doc.Sca...Good Sunday evening on the iceberg to you, Doc.<BR/>Scalpel said it quite well. As did Monkeygirl.Constancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02702046097986873803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-40229322191346669952007-08-19T20:11:00.000-05:002007-08-19T20:11:00.000-05:00I just want to be comfortably numb. I love the li...I just want to be comfortably numb. I love the line from Office Space when Peter is at the "occupational therapist" and he asks if there is any way the therapist could just "knock him out for a while so he doesn't know he is at work, maybe make him think he has been fishing". When someone invents that drug, I'm first in line.shrodingers cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04020541322469047041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-91569037357167921872007-08-19T19:10:00.000-05:002007-08-19T19:10:00.000-05:00Pick up a coffee cup and bail like hell, 911. Mayb...Pick up a coffee cup and bail like hell, 911. Maybe they'll get done fixing the lightbulbs, or whatever the hell it is they're doing, before we sink all the way.<BR/><BR/>'Cat, the rats jumped ship long ago. We're all gonna starve, my friend. <BR/><BR/>But hey guys, some of us die-hard ER junkies will be there until the bitter end, too. We'll shoot you docs up with a B-52 when you have your psychotic break, and have a "Kumbaya" sing-a-long.MonkeyGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05735317323208263354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-18562480005209213522007-08-18T22:09:00.000-05:002007-08-18T22:09:00.000-05:00There are no lifeboats for ED docs. We'll just ha...There are no lifeboats for ED docs. We'll just have to eat the rats that are left scampering to and fro on the floating hunks of ship that don't go to the bottom.shrodingers cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04020541322469047041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-55315293103416637712007-08-18T16:06:00.000-05:002007-08-18T16:06:00.000-05:00And yet you, as an emergency physician, are expect...And yet you, as an emergency physician, are expected to meet some ill-defined attorney's creation of "standard of care" which probably expects you to arrange for prompt consultation for those patients who might benefit from the sort of expertise the absent surgical subspecialist could provide. Lacking availability of said subspecialist, assuming it were the sort of case you might be able to attempt to repair yourself to the best of your ability, you would likely be held to the same "standard of care" in a subsequent tort case as the unavailable specialist.<BR/><BR/>That's a bad situation. Damned if you do, and damned if you don't.scalpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12163296819469420123noreply@blogger.com