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If you watch Casualty, you will have a very realistic view of how emergency medicine is conducted in real hospitals. Apart from the fact that all the nurses and doctors do not actually have affairs with each other, hospital administrators and patients on a daily basis, in between their casual sex in elevators, near constant drug abuse, and the fact that they even have the energy after 12 hour shifts to go out drinking all night and arrive back at work still drunk the next day. And no one is as nice as Charlie in real life. | If you watch Casualty, you will have a very realistic view of how emergency medicine is conducted in real hospitals. Apart from the fact that all the nurses and doctors do not actually have affairs with each other, hospital administrators and patients on a daily basis, in between their casual sex in elevators, near constant drug abuse, and the fact that they even have the energy after 12 hour shifts to go out drinking all night and arrive back at work still drunk the next day. And no one is as nice as Charlie in real life. | ||
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It's quite important to learn about [[trauma]]. It is split into three main sections [[ | [[image:burntman.jpg|left|200px]]It's quite important to learn about [[trauma]]. It is split into three main sections [[trauma]], [[lacerations]] and [[burns]]. In the picture on the left, Raj has been bludgeoned in the groin, lacerated repeatedly with a small, blunt knife, and then burnt in a big fire, in a coming-of-age ceremony as part of his religion, "Atheism". |
Revision as of 13:37, 1 December 2009
Emergency Medicine
Learning about chest pain is important. So is ECG
If you watch Casualty, you will have a very realistic view of how emergency medicine is conducted in real hospitals. Apart from the fact that all the nurses and doctors do not actually have affairs with each other, hospital administrators and patients on a daily basis, in between their casual sex in elevators, near constant drug abuse, and the fact that they even have the energy after 12 hour shifts to go out drinking all night and arrive back at work still drunk the next day. And no one is as nice as Charlie in real life.
Physical Injury
It's quite important to learn about trauma. It is split into three main sections trauma, lacerations and burns. In the picture on the left, Raj has been bludgeoned in the groin, lacerated repeatedly with a small, blunt knife, and then burnt in a big fire, in a coming-of-age ceremony as part of his religion, "Atheism".