Monday, November 4, 2013

the sounds of medicine

awesome sound:
the abbreviated ring of the phone before it kicks over to the answering service on friday afternoon.

not so awesome sound:
your pager going off at three am sunday morning. (that would be the patient who is too polite to wake her dentist...)

awesome sound:
the jet of fluid as it hits the side of the vacutainer telling you that you're in the pocket of acites you are trying to drain from your patient's abdomen.

not so awesome sound:
the whoosh of air sucking into the IV site as you pull a wide bore central line (but no so bad as the voice inside your head that is now saying oh, crap...)

awesome sound:
the rapid, but gentle and happy, thump of fetal heart tones

not so awesome sound:
silence when there should be none.



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