Stories from the trauma bay

Some of the questions I get most often via email are about medical training - not necessarily  my medical training, but about medical schoo...

We all know them no matter what they are called where you're from - rednecks, yokels, bumpkins, chavs, bogans, pikeys, carrot crunchers,...

I feel like I've been letting the readers down lately, posting inspirational stories and thank-yous and such.  BUT NO MORE!  I'm get...

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about a trauma surgeon?  Patience?  Good hands?  The ability to stay calm under...

ER stands for "Emergency Room".  Yes, I understand you know this already.  And I used to think that was common knowledge.  The ke...

When I started this blog back in October, I didn't really think anyone would care enough to read it.  It seems I was wrong - somehow thi...

In my line of work, we have to be tolerant of a lot of things, stupidity being one of them.  There are so many stupid things I see, many of ...