Flam News

Well, I'm in. I might as well post.
Margo's nightmare in the ER (she didn't mention the hospital by name, for some reason) was hilarious and fishandfamily.com continues to entertain to the point of tears . . . but really, that's pretty much par for the course in ER's. I'm sure PM can confirm that sometimes the support personnel being who they are and the crush of patients at any given time can transform urgent and emergent care into a blur of community psychodrama and suffering. It infuriates me when I work without so much as a bladder break (and, of course, I'm terrified to take a drink of water), while the redundant support personnel saunter into the lunch room for a half-hour repast, leaving unregistered patients in the waiting area and undone xrays in the treatment rooms. And it's equally infuriating when people bring inappropriate, inexplicable, and incurable flotsam (like that, Lin?) to the ER or ICC, which is designed to treat well-defined acute pathology such as -- sprained ankles! We docs love sprained ankles! They're varied enough to be interesting, there's always a defined protocol for treatment, and the patient almost always feels better before our eyes. I'd take a sprained ankle in before a knife-wounded low-life anyday.
They really blew it with Yoni.
What was that hospital's name . . . ?