I almost fell off my chair. It was bad enough that he showed up to the ER. But what happened next really blew my mind. He fell and bruised a rib. The pain in his left chest had obvious enough origins. But triage had put in for an electrocardiogram and the interpretation apparently scared the resident. The attending took a look, and shook his head.
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The ICU hummed as the tech guy waltzed in at two in the morning. A key designer of the EMR himself, the night shift nurses had his mobile and were not afraid to use it. There was a problem reconciling Mr. Jones med list after his emergency bypass surgery that evening. Patients first.
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