Listen, if you have ever been the the ER than you know it sucks to be there, cause you're usually in a lot of pain, USUALLY, not all the time but for me it’s never, I guess I have nerves of steel but does it matter? Short answer no. Ok back to the story, So About a year or maybe like I don’t know a year and a half ago I hit my leg with a trash bag no big deal right? Ha, Ha, WRONG! I unknowingly hurt my ankle bad enough to cut it open and cause it to bleed, bad. I had to go to the ER the second time in my life that I had to go. I think I was there for maybe an hour, I got about 15 stitches (probably less) but that didn’t hurt. Now what did hurt was getting the numbing medicine or morphine if we’re being specific but I carry on, It was in fact
one of the most painful things in my life (the morphine) but helped a lot because if there was no morphine than trust me the stitches would take the pain cake. In short I hurt my ankle got stitches and now it’s better, but the moral of the story is, Don’t be an idiot and go around swing trash around your ankles because you will cut them open and need stitches.
Alcoholism is a severe disease that has the potential to negatively impact not only the individual combating addiction, but also the family members involved with the addict (Park & Schepp, 2014). The documentary series A&E Intervention follows the daily lives of individuals combating addictions such as alcoholism and substance abuse. Throughout Gloria’s A&E episode, before her intervention there was rarely a moment that did not consist of her having an alcoholic beverage within arm’s reach. Gloria was in denial about her alcohol abuse, and seemed to be unattached to traumatic events that occurred in her life, including the death of her father, her stillborn childbirth, and both of her daughter’s complex relationships with her. This paper seeks
Hospitals are busy places, and with so much going on it is hard to believe that mistakes are not made. However, there are some accidents that should never happen. Such events have been termed ‘never events’ because they are never supposed to happen. This term was first introduced by Ken Kizer, MD, in 2001 (US, 2012). The Joint Commission has classified never events as sentinel events and asks that hospitals report them. A sentinel event is defined as, “an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physiological or psychological injury, or the risk thereof” (US, 2012). Never events are termed sentinel events because in the past 12 years 71% of the events reported were fatal (US, 2012). Because these events are never supposed to happen, many insurance companies will not reimburse the hospitals when they occur. A study in 2006, showed that the average hospital could experience a case of wrong-site surgery, one example of a never event, only once every 5 to 10 years (US, 2012). This study illustrates how rare a never event is. Hospitals do not want these never events to happen any more than a patient does. To help prevent these errors, hospitals have created policies that, if followed, will minimize the possibility of a mistake. The consequences of never events are devastating and because of this the goal is to make sure that they are eradicated from hospitals and medical facilities.
Britain on E4, at 9:30 on a Thursday night. ER has been one of the
So i have therapy mondays and wednesday. And when i went back that monday my therapist was surprised of how good i’ve gotten, because i was able to move my knee more and bend my knee more than 70%. She told me that it was good but my goal is 120% or more, for me to get to the next step of surgery. So i focused on that, and i was putting in twice as much as work i usually put in. Because the only thing that's on my mind is to get back on the field and work my way to become stronger and better. Also do what i love to do and enjoy playing with my friends and family. That's the only thing i’m striving for is to come back healthy and strong. And not do the same mistake as i did before to put myself in that situation. Finally almost that time for me to receive a phone call from my sergeant to tell me what i should do before i come in for surgery. She told me to not eat or drink once it's 7:00 because i was scheduled to have surgery at 9:30 and also she told me not to put on any lotion on my knees. So i did what she asked me to, and that whole day i been thinking about what is going to happen and would i ever be the same and how would it take for me to come back and be fully healed. So i went to the hospital it was almost time for me to have surgery and i was kind of scared but i was really looking forward to just get it all over with it. After i got done with surgery i was in so much pain that couldn’t move at all. Because if i even tried to move my leg that i would be in so much pain that i have to drink my pain killers. Once i got home i was in so much pain that i didn’t sleep for a whole week straight. But then i started getting used to sleeping without a problem or pain. But my doctor would always called me and told me what to do or if i had any problem to just give her a call. Then i asked her the next day when i could start walking and stuff. She
Untold Stories of the ER is a medical docudrama in which real life emergency room personnel tell about their most bizarre and puzzling cases. The doctors and staff typically play themselves. Whenever possible, the patients themselves take part in the reenactment as well, but they are at least shown in brief interviews to comment on how they were feeling throughout the whole ordeal and how things have turned out for them. The more common illnesses featured were strokes, diabetic related problems, heart attacks, meningitis, and headaches to name a few.
It was a quiet and pleasant Saturday afternoon when I was doing my rotation at the surgical medical unit at Holy Cross Hospital. It’s time to get blood sugar levels from MM, a COPD patient. His BiPAP was scheduled to be removed before his discharge tomorrow. When I was checking the ID badge and gave brief explanation what I needed to do. The patient was relaxed, oriented and her monitor showed his SPO2 was 91, respiratory rate was 20. His grandchildren knocked the door and came in for a visit. I expected a good family time, however, the patient started constant breath-holding coughing and his SPO2 dropped to 76 quickly. With a pounding chest, the patient lost the consciousness. His grandchildren were scared and screaming,
Once school was out last year, I had done something to my foot. I don’t know what happened to it, but I know a general time frame it happened in. At first, I thought it was just my foot getting used to the new summer conditioning. After about three weeks, the pain had moved towards my achilles tendon. Once that happened, I only had pain when I pointed my toes, or pushed through my toes. The pain was to a point where my coach was noticing a change in tumbling, so she had me go to a doctor to make sure everything was
Both stories share the key characteristics of a personal narratives, however Rachel Riederers “Patient” provides a more in depth look into darker time in her life, “Simone, with her sensible shoe suggestions-this is all her fault” (Patient, 163), this form of comedic relief lessens some of the tension and makes the essay easy to get enthralled in ; Whereas David Owens “Scars” first two pages really only give a brief background into his personal story and uses a more jovial position as well as some comedic relief “.. I told her that some of my happiest memories involved accidents.” (Scars, 2) Owens brand of comedic relief made for an interesting essay by seeing scars as memory books, something to look back on fondly .Rachel Riederers diction
An Exploration Of Popular Hospital Drama Series With Reference To Two Or More Selected Episodes (Casualty and ER) One of the world's most popular television genres is the Hospital Drama. Incorporating many aspects of real-life, relationships, family, money etc. with the action of a busy hospital. They are easily recognisable due to common conventions across the board although they can vary vastly in some areas from series to series.
The Physicians tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most powerful tales. It is about sin and lust. There are many characters in this tale whom are, Virginia the beautiful daughter of Virginius. Virginius who is a wealthy knight who has a daughter names Virginia. Appius who is in love with Virginius’ beauty and cannot stop thinking about her; and Claudius whom helps Appius with his sinister plan. Each of these characters are important in describing a physician.
Once we were done with paper work, we went back to the labor and delivery unit where we suited up. We wore medical booties, face masks, and nurse caps. Once the patient was ready to go into the OR, she first had to meet with the anesthesiologist to fill out more paper work. After meeting with the anesthesiologist, we all went into the OR. There was a student nurse, two anesthesiologists, the patient, and two RN nurses. While the student nurse was preparing the OR, the patient was getting an epidur...
I woke up to the pungent smell of hospital disinfect, invading my nostrils. The room was silent apart from my heavy breathing and the beep beep sound you often hear in hospitals that indicates you're alive. I slowly opened my eyes, squinting in attempt to sharpen the blurred images before me. I glanced around and took in the deserted, blue and white colour schemed hospital bedroom. How long have I been here? I shut my eyes, trying to remember what had exactly happened. Then it all hits me with a bang. The memory of it all starts to occupy my thoughts.
She walked away before another nurse placed an oxygen mask on me to
Do you get tired after walking one mile, or maybe 2. Well how do you think it would feel, if you traversed around 4000 miles? Well a man by the name of Ed Stafford has become the first person to ever walk the whole length of the amazon river. It took him a total of 860 days to complete his journey while facing many near death situations.
It’s 4 hours after my surgery. The pain block was supposed to last 24-48 hours and I have already fallen with my crutches. Everyone is getting tired of hearing the sobs coming from my mouth. I stand up and hobble my way to my bedroom and collapse on the bed. I prop my leg, with the gigantic splint running all the way up to my knee, on the pillows that have been stacked. After a few more hours of agony and pain pills that do not work, I take some benadryl and sleep the pain off for the next 3 days. This all happened to me 2 years ago when I had ankle surgery. The amount of pain I felt the hours after surgery was unbearable. We all know what pain is. We fall and bump our head then we feel pain. We have surgery then we feel pain. No one is a stranger to pain. Physical pain that is. There is a whole other level of pain that we feel. One that in my opinion is worse than any physical pain a person can endure. We often try to hide this pain because it is such a taboo thing to talk about what we are feeling. Pain is staying up into the late hours of the night praying for it all to get better, hurting oneself on the outside to match what they are feeling on the inside, and wondering if it is even worth it to go on another