Recent content by dalhou

I love medicine, I'm married to medicine. Sex, love, joy, friendship, hunger, natural body functions are all just distractions to me, necessary things to deal with. They take me away from what I love the most, the body. 

A blood glucose of 700 mg/dL + means your friend's blood was maple syrup, this also means the patient is a high risk pregnancy and the fetus has already been compromised, also means that they were in DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis), also puts them at risk for stroke, heart attack, kidney failure...

Hello there world,    I'm a late night lurker. My job is 90% of the time overnight (8P-6A) which means on my days off, I tend to stay up very late so I don't give myself heart palpitations. Which also means that none of my friends aren't up to keep me company, including my significant other.   ...

I don't have much, but I sent you what I could. If you need anyone to talk to, let me know.   Stranger as I am, sometimes that helps. 

I saw my first code a couple nights ago.    At first I thought I'm the kind of person that can handle the emotional distress of seeing another person die. It really hit home for me though.    71 yo white female, cardiac arrest. We pushed epi, maxed it out. Bicarb. Shocked her twice. She had a...