El Bow

Saturday was a dislocated elbow night. Two in one night - how often does that happen?


This pt was very, very drunk. They gave her 8 of morphine and she was still writhing around on the cart. She also threatened to murder me if I touched her elbow and it hurt her. I couldn't really do a lateral (or an AP or anything that looked right), but I tried and she didn't kill me, so fairly successful.
This next pt dislocated and fractured his radius. He also wanted to kill me. The student I was working with said he looked like he was going to punch me when I was positioning his arm. Hey- if you come to the ER, you're in a lot of pain and you want x-rays done, it might hurt. Boo hoo. Would you rather not know what is wrong with you?
He wouldn't let me move his arm for the AP, so the x-ray below was done with tube/film angle magic. I was pretty close to AP all things considered.
Then I spent an hour in surgery workin' the C-arm.
And ta da- post op films. Looks a lot better, right? (ignore the yellow arrow-it's not pointing at anything)

Work Here

Hey!

Need a job?

Work with me!

We have openings for : RN-med/surg,

RN- med/surg,

RN-er,

LPN,

EMT,

a pharmacy manager

and ortho surgeon!

We really, really need a pharmacy manager ASAP. They're offering $63 an hour. (Is that a good wage for pharmacy managers? IDK) And you would only have to work every 4th week-end!

If you are an ortho surgeon- consider working here because:

Low crime rate (good place to raise your kids or retire)

Newly remodeled OR (move in date Jan.'09)

Admin. will buy any equipment you want

(or use the $600,000 of equipment the last guy

left behind after working for 5 months - he moved to

CA-not our fault)

Fresh Air

Wide open empty spaces

New Wal-mart

(where old people trip every Sun. and break their hips)

Local skiing (see above)

Many drunk drivers(broken arms/legs ect.)

Metal foundry (back pain/crushed limbs)

9 months of ice and snow(multi fx)

Come work with the best!