A doctor calls 911, saving a patient from acute leukemia

A physician gets paged in the middle of the night, about a lab report showing a WBC above 90,000. Good job getting this patient to the hospital stat.

Comments

Anonymous
And just what needed to be done so urgently in the ER????? Kevin, I assume you are being sarcastic.
Elliott
Did you read the article. Blood transfusions were needed immediately. At 2 AM, that’s the only place you’re going to get them quickly. I suppose that the doctor could have direct admitted to the floor with orders for blood (maybe that’s what happened and the newspaper just said ER).
Anonymous
We’re not given enough info. It’s not really the high WBCs that are important. He may have had critical anemia or thrombocytopenia – those could have been platelet transfusions thery were talking about.