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    • gro2001
      gro2001 replied to the thread Why did you become an intensivist?.
      I don't think that this is either naive or dumb. The most useful thing you can do in life that will help you make decisions big and...
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      gro2001 reacted to Maybedoc1's post in the thread Why did you become an intensivist? with Like Like.
      Soon to be 4th year med student (applying to residency in September) really struggling to decide between a couple specialties. One would...
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      gro2001 replied to the thread Whose heads are you scanning?.
      Yes, I agree on all counts.
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      gro2001 replied to the thread Whose heads are you scanning?.
      That and also because of the age related brain atrophy the exam may be normal for longer after an injury.
    • gro2001
      gro2001 replied to the thread Whose heads are you scanning?.
      In the scenarios you described above, the patient in scenario 2 was put in jeopardy and possibly harmed. Patients in scenario 2 usually...
    • gro2001
      gro2001 replied to the thread Whose heads are you scanning?.
      I very often look at a patient in atrial fibrillation and think thank God for blood thinners. They prevent so many strokes!
    • gro2001
      gro2001 replied to the thread Whose heads are you scanning?.
      I am both an emergency physician and a neurointensivist, and this is one way that my fellowship has changed my EM practice. I scan a lot...
    • gro2001
      gro2001 reacted to ShockIndex's post in the thread Whose heads are you scanning? with Like Like.
      I'll go one step further - not only is the Canadian Head Injury Rule worthless in elderly, anticoagulated, head injury patients but so...
    • gro2001
      gro2001 reacted to ShockIndex's post in the thread Whose heads are you scanning? with Like Like.
      There is no validated head injury rule for elderly, anticoagulated head injury patients that doesn’t involve CT. Telling people to use...
    • gro2001
      gro2001 reacted to BoardingDoc's post in the thread Obligation to Police with Like Like.
      While the video did not discuss the scenario posted by OP (e.g. being asked to state "on the record" what your thoughts about a case...
    • gro2001
      gro2001 reacted to gruemd's post in the thread Obligation to Police with Like Like.
      It is a perfectly rational take to say that discourse with police has the potential to be twisted and used against you, or in the...
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      gro2001 reacted to Siggy's post in the thread Obligation to Police with Like Like.
      They are demanding that she draws the blood on the victim of a car accident where there's no suspicion that the patient was intoxicated...
    • gro2001
      gro2001 replied to the thread Obligation to Police.
      When a similar event happened in my hospital that led to our charge RN being arrested, the police officer was demanding the nurse draw...
    • gro2001
      gro2001 replied to the thread Obligation to Police.
      Do you have any training in forensic medicine? I do not, and so would not be comfortable making any speculation on how long somebody has...
    • gro2001
      gro2001 replied to the thread Obligation to Police.
      Almost the exact same thing happened at an ER I worked at. Except in our case it was the charge nurse who was arrested. Handcuffed and...
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