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I was working in the pediatric ER today. There was a mother who was super adamant about having plastic surgery fix the laceration on her daughter.

Posted by James Bond (aka Igor) (aka Igor) May 28 '12, 21:11

"I don't want no emergency medicine doctor touching her." Which might be a good idea if you are a private hospital where the plastic surgeon attendings actually show up in the ER when called. You are a teaching hospital... meaning the person on the bottom of the food chain goes to evaluate you. So she will likely get an intern or second year resident who is spending the month on plastic surgery.
Should have taken the 4th year ER doc who does this daily.

But more importantly I diagnosed hand-foot-mouth disease in a kid. I was telling my resident "so this kid has small erythemic lesions on his feet and hands, I wonder what... oh snap, let me check his mouth." That is seriously how the conversation went.

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I don't blame her, honestly. - kelly May 28, 21:17 1
- I certainly would want an experienced plastic surgeon too but that is simply not who she will get. The nurses tried to explain it to her but she - James Bond (aka Igor) May 28, 21:23

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I was working in the pediatric ER today. There was a mother who was super adamant about having plastic surgery fix the laceration on her daughter.

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