Author: Raj Waghmare

It’s almost seven p.m. and I’m handed the chart of a man in his sixties. “Can you see this one first,” the nurse says, “he needs

It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’ve been called in almost four hours before my shift is supposed to start.  Black coffee feels good the second it

The Fast Track area of our Emergency Department is like a walk-in clinic; one cubicle after another – most with curtains too short for problems

[Triage Note: 45 year old male, vomiting for two days. Abdominal pain] Dr. Stephen Cluff is like Yoda. Actually, judging by body hair, he’s more like

[Triage Note: 55 year old woman. Found unconscious by boyfriend at 17:30. Labored breaths. Paramedics performing CPR en route. Pulses present. No spontaneous resps. No

[Triage Note: 45 year old woman, appendectomy earlier in the day, discharged; pain, right upper quadrant, 50 minutes] Monday morning. As I click through the