EMERGENCY MEDICINE TRAINING

This is a blog about the journey to become an emergency medicine physician.

Friday, November 03, 2006

1st joint

I get a signout from fast track who had smoked weed for the first time today with the chief complaint of "dry mouth."

The problem was that he wouldn't move. He was passed out and wouldn't open his eyes spontaneously or cooperate with motor strength testing.

So his family is there, shouting "something is wrong with him! Figure out what's wrong! Why isn't he moving!"

I told them it would take time and they were livid. They didn't know anything about his drug experimentation.

Around 330A, after his family had gone home, he finally wakes up, we take a stroll through the ED and he says that that was some strong stuff and I give him the lecture about not doing that again then D/C him home.

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