List: Emergency Medicine Stories | Curated by Michael Burg, MD (Satire Sommelier) 😬

Apr 15, 2024
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The Emergency Department Fails a Woman With Life-Threatening Internal BleedingWhere things went wrong
Apr 15, 2024
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Apr 15, 2024
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The Narrative Arc
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Bruce — Gang-Banging, PCP-Abusing, Stark Raving Mad, 275 Pounds of Raging Muscle, Pussycat PatientPatient Jekyll and Hyde
Dec 6, 2023
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Dec 6, 2023
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BeingWell
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Talking a Dislocated Shoulder Back Into PlaceWhile dodging murder at the hands of a physician-in-training
Nov 27, 2023
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Nov 27, 2023
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E³ — Entertain Enlighten Empower
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An Emergency Department Story That Is Wrong in So Many WaysBut funny when it happened
Nov 23, 2023
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Nov 23, 2023
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Had The Boost Existed Three Years Ago — These Hard Hitting Emergency Department Stories Would Have…I coulda been a contender
Nov 21, 2023
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Nov 21, 2023
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Age of Empathy
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We “Intubated” Ketamine-Darted Baboons in KenyaAnd met a famous guy
Sep 4, 2023
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Sep 4, 2023
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An ER Doc Undergoes an Operation When His Testicle Explodes at WorkIt’s not as bad as you think — or maybe it is. You decide…
Nov 15, 2023
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Nov 15, 2023
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When All The Holes in My Head Swelled Shut … AlmostPoison oak and I don’t get along
Nov 8, 2023
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Nov 8, 2023
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An ER Doc Takes His 3-Year-Old Son to the Emergency DepartmentNavigating the system as a doctor
Nov 4, 2023
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Nov 4, 2023
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Can Getting Your Scrotum Caught in Your Zipper Make You Lose Your Mind?A tale of WHOA!
Nov 2, 2023
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Nov 2, 2023
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When a Patient’s Leg Gets ‘Spun’ What Does an ER Doc Do?Even if I had the pictures I couldn’t show them to you
Oct 31, 2023
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Oct 31, 2023
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‘Everything Happens for a Reason’ is a Ridiculous Idea — A Paralyzed Child’s StoryMy Emergency Department patient’s injury served no purpose
Oct 19, 2023
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Oct 19, 2023
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Ellemeno
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When Good Intentions and Good Deeds Aren’t Enough in the Emergency DepartmentProblems without solutions, a real-world Emergency Medicine story
Oct 12, 2023
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Oct 12, 2023
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Real Fun Stories From the Emergency Department by an ER DoctorA whimsical happy story involving a cantankerous co-worker
Oct 12, 2023
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Oct 12, 2023
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The Emergency Department Patient Who Was Too Weak to Walk … or Was He?In an Emergency Department, far, far, away
Sep 18, 2023
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Sep 18, 2023
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Depraved Apathy in the Emergency DepartmentHow is this possible?
Sep 27, 2023
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Sep 27, 2023
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Age of Empathy
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What Happened When His Wife Suddenly CollapsedSome problems cannot be fixed
Sep 29, 2023
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Sep 29, 2023
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A Scalping in the Emergency DepartmentA workday gone horribly wrong
Oct 4, 2023
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Oct 4, 2023
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All the Emergency Medicine StoriesAfter 33 years in the Emergency Department I’ve got some to share
Aug 5, 2023
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Aug 5, 2023
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Ellemeno
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I Wore My Wife’s Panties to Work in the Emergency Department and Got Found Out … in Public!My finest hour
Aug 12, 2023
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Aug 12, 2023
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