Comments on: Code blue http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/code-blue.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/code-blue.html#comment-79207 Anonymous Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/code-blue.html#comment-79207 Anon 10:48:<br/>Kind of like how I feel when I ask some ER doc's pointed questions about patient's they want to admit and realize they haven't even done more than a superficial evaluation of the pt such that they can't give me a good reason why they want the pt admitted. <br/><br/>Conclusion: we each pick our poison. For every clustf... on the ward, I can give you one in the ER. The difference is I don't constantly whine about it and act like I am smarter than everyone else and part of the most important branch (the ER) of the hospital. Anon 10:48:
Kind of like how I feel when I ask some ER doc’s pointed questions about patient’s they want to admit and realize they haven’t even done more than a superficial evaluation of the pt such that they can’t give me a good reason why they want the pt admitted.

Conclusion: we each pick our poison. For every clustf… on the ward, I can give you one in the ER. The difference is I don’t constantly whine about it and act like I am smarter than everyone else and part of the most important branch (the ER) of the hospital.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/code-blue.html#comment-79188 Anonymous Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/code-blue.html#comment-79188 I can tell you, while being out in the field and not in a controlled setting, with bystanders and no crowd control, you do yell "clear!" We want them back, and are unable to enforce it ourselves, as our concerns are focused elsewhere. I can tell you, while being out in the field and not in a controlled setting, with bystanders and no crowd control, you do yell “clear!” We want them back, and are unable to enforce it ourselves, as our concerns are focused elsewhere.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/code-blue.html#comment-79149 Anonymous Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/code-blue.html#comment-79149 Being the ER doc in a large community hospital we respond to the "code blues". On the wards it is usually a big clusterf.....<br/><br/>There is usually 15 people in the room with a stupid look (?students -- I don't know who they are). The nurse that was actually assigned to the patient is the only one NOT in the room. Being the ER doc in a large community hospital we respond to the “code blues”. On the wards it is usually a big clusterf…..

There is usually 15 people in the room with a stupid look (?students — I don’t know who they are). The nurse that was actually assigned to the patient is the only one NOT in the room.

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