Scrubs

I watched the last two episodes of Season 8 of Scrubs today. I've now seen every episode. This was the last episode of Scrubs, at least as we've known it. It might or might not come back for a 9th season - but the cast won't be the same.

Anyway - I've seen most of the medical TV shows that have played. Emergency! was the best, of course. They really, really worked to make it realistic.
ER, Third Watch, etc - they've all been wayyy too much drama and not enough medicine. And they got stale and corny.

Scrubs never got stale... yeah, it was a sitcom, but it was also funny, and had serious times, too. Also, as much as it was humorous, it was realistic in some aspects. Poking fun at new doctors... and in some ways, bringing House of God to life.
But now thats gone. I'm just a little saddened.

Standbys Pt. 2

So... 3 days of standbys and no interesting patients.
The only buisness we really had was the parade of folks, mostly (entirely) female, who bought pretty new shoes before coming to the convention - and now have blisters on their feet and want band aids.

Really.

I mean... you go and you KNOW you'll be STANDING in a booth for hours on end. Or you'll be walking the exhibit hall all day... and you wear new shoes.

Darwin was on to something.

Cool Video

I saw this video at EMSToday, and I just saw it again online

I think it is worth sharing.

Death

Last week, in clinical, we had an eldery patient with cancer come in - in cardiac arrest. EMS had ROSC (Return of Spontanious Circulation) multiple times, and we lost pulses more than conce. The wife was in another room, and the patient's oncologist talked with him, then came in the room and told us to stop, that the pateint had a valid DNR, and the wife wanted it to be followed at that time, even though she had apparently told ALS to provide care and disregard the DNR.

Odd thing about it was that it was the LEAST sad cardiac arrest I'd ever seen. Everyone agreed that it was sad - but it was an older patient - and he had multiple cancers and was already going down fast. I think it also helped that there was only a spouse (that seemed to expect the outcome), not 20 family members screaming and crying.

Just some random musings.

Standbys

So I'm working today on a standby. I sit around at the convention center and kill time waiting for folks to need help.

It isn't a bad job - and this particular shift, I've got internet access. This makes the day pass faster. No one really cares what we do, so long as we get moving when we get a call. Well... we can't sleep, but it is a pretty good gig.

Maybe I'll get an interesting call later.