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At work, nothing happens.
Half a million people in my district, and I'm the only radiologist...
The Last 8 hours I've had perhaps 30 patients, mostly chest x-rays.. not much to do!
Much better when cases stream in, time goes fast.
I want more and exciting examinations, a couple of hand on exams, ultra-sound, fluoroscopy or such and my joy returns.
What are people doing? Ain't no one driving their cars today?? No accidents?? No fighting, come on!!
(This must be the slowest saturday I've ever experianced!)

And almost no Posts on the Shrapnel forum, all internet newspapers read, all lists of cases from the week fixed and the chores for monday done aswell..
No Posts at the PBW development forum for ages.
Read all my usual sites and some unusal aswell.

Please post, I'll be stuck here for 16 more hours, need something to do!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ July 24, 2004, 15:15: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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I remember I got an xray once...for kidney stuff. In those days, they used iodine (I think they use something else these days).

Anyway, there I was looking at the xrays with the guy who snapped the "pics". There was a good shot of my large intestine (or colon if you prefer). He pointed to the darkest parts and told me those were farts on the way and that the slightly lighter "lumps" were poop.

Looking back now, I'd have to say that was my most exciting xray ever! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes, it's quite interesting.
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( we still use iodine for a lot of exams, including kidneys)

I really like colon exams, where I fill the patient with barium enema and air thriough the rectum and examines the colon, really nice pictures!!

[ July 24, 2004, 19:32: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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I've had an X-Ray once when i cracked some bones in my shoulder, was rather uneventful really.

But to keep you ammused here's a story for Ruatha about hospitals.

When i was a kid (2 or 3 years old) i was a real pain in the ***, temper tantrums really couldn't sum it up. Maybe i was hyper or something i don't know, but i really was the worst kid to get annoyed.

So when i had to go to hospital to get stitches removed from my lip they were ready for me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif (the dog had bitten me the week before)

I was taken to a room with 4 grown men doctors when the surgeon guy came in, he was to take the stitches out. He looked at me, the 4 doctors and the General Anasthetic they had prepared and shouted "What!!! can't you 4 men handle a child??" and went to hold me down and take them out.

Half an hour later he admitted defeat, after much screaming, punching, kicking and every dirty trick a 3 year old child can do. He called The 4 doctors over and they helped him pin me down and they gave me the anasthetic to knock me out so they could remove these stitches.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Apparently one or two of them went home with bruises LOL. Also my parents tell me the trip when i went to have the stitches PUT IN the first place was even worse, My Mother hasn't told me that story yet http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

A wonderful story from my childhood to keep you all ammused. I'm glad to say that i avoid hospitals whenever nessercary and have grown out of that stage years ago http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ July 24, 2004, 15:48: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks for posting.

Not every kid is calmed even by my calming presence. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif
I've found that a drink with medazolam (Dormicum (tm)) added can make the worst kid happy!
I still haven't gotten any bruises, but one never knows, so far negotiations have worked in most cases, very few were we've had to use force, and those are all failures really! (not the kids but our work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

[ July 24, 2004, 15:56: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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Personally I'm suprised they never Banned me from every Hospital in England http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

This was when i was 2 or 3. So 1988/1989 time.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You must jump for joy when you hear the likes of a pile-up or a bus crash. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You must jump for joy when you hear the likes of a pile-up or a bus crash. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nah, that's too much.
But a stomach that pains and no-one knows why, that I like, ultrasound is fun.
And intervention, all those catheters in and out through the vessels getting them where you want, that's fun.
Otherwise anything goes when you're on call, a steady stream of patients but not too many at a time, that's ideal.
I don't mind the many chest x-rays as long as there's something else aswell.

But I still must say, it's the most fun work I've ever had and I've tried a wide variety of occupations. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Now I've had some to do, a MC accident with head to toe exam, and a kidney exam, some chest x-rays, and a lot of bones.
Now new staff has come, so now I can tell todays jokes the third time (The third shift of nurses)!

[ July 24, 2004, 19:16: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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If you're still bored, try out Sodaplay. The idea is to link lines together to form shapes and objects that you can then give movement too (including turning off gravity). If you need some hints, check out the Zoo and see some of the stuff other people have done.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">/Me pictures ruatha randomly poisoning people's food, slowly dropping droplets of an unknown liquide into trays of food when nobody's looking.

/Methinks TerranC should call the Linghem Police http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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As long as we are allowing diVersionary stories of hospital stuff, I must tell the story of my vasectomy...groan http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

So, after deciding it was the right thing to do, I'm scheduled for the outpatient surgery. Mind you, having to shave my "boys" (and pretty much anything else just to be sure) the day of the surgery was lots of fun (and visions of what I looked like as a boy of, say, 10...no pubic hair notwithstanding).

So, two guys are doing the surgery. Cloth with the hole in it, etc. Of course, the room is cold as possible and turning the entire area orange around my pubic area with that antiseptic stuff didn't help any (you know, shrinkage and all...think "Seinfield").

The surgery was being done at a military clinic. Like a lot of hospitals, there always seems to be a group of people who turn up to observe. No shortage of that this time, either, as a doctor stopped by to asked if a group of about 5 interns could observe. (oh BOY, I'm thinking...perhaps we should just sell tickets! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif )

So, off we go. Apparently, for my gratification as well as that of the "audience", the doctor begins the procedure while explaining how bulls are castrated. (great topic, I'm thinking) And, if you didn't know, it goes a little like this: the bulls are lined up so they are forced to walk in a limited area in a row. Two guys wait at the station. One has a sharp knife that he uses to quickly slice through the scrotum skin and on the other side of the "cage", another guy stands ready with a big vaccuum hose that he immediately places over the slit so he can suck out the testicles (I can just imagine the sound bull testicles make being sucked down a hose!) After all, these are sold as edible parts http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif .

But, the story ends well but not the humiliation. I'm carted off to a room (and a bed) where I have to stay for 2 hours to make sure everything is OK. For swelling, ice was used. But, there were no ice packs (military budget, no doubt!). Instead, they had filled up those rubber gloves with water, tied a knot in them, and froze them. Bloated little buggers, they were! You can imagine my face as a female nurse pulls these out, pulls up the gown I have on, and places one of these "hands" on each side of my scrotum. And she didn't come with out a good beside manner, either. "There!" she proclaimied after looking at her artwork, "Looks like things were well in hand now." And followed up by, "I really gotta hand it to you, you were brave to get a vasectomy."

Oh well, there's my addition to the thread.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">First of all....EWWWWW!

Second, that's only the way mature bulls are castrated, which isn't the way most cattle operators do it. Mostly, the bulls are castrated a few days after birth, and then with a very tight, thick eLastic band that is slipped over the...um...equipment, then allowed to tighten. Cuts off the circulation, then after a month or so they dry up and fall off. No pain for the calves. For mature bulls they do do it as you described, which seems a little bit cruel to me. Maybe I'm just a little bit sympathetic...after all I wouldn't want that to happen to me! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

(How can you tell I live on a cattle ranch eh??!)

As for hospital stories, well I don't have that many, and none are exciting or out of the ordinary. I didn't even visit a hospital for over 10 consecutive years (and I'm only 17, so that's not bad!) But then I had to go punch a wall, break my hand, etc etc. They didn't even take an x-ray of it, they just could feel the break, bandaged it up and told me to keep it that way for a couple weeks at least. That's the extent of my hospital stories. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Ahh, the hand in the wall!!
Every weekend we have a boy who has hit his hand in the wall, and a couple of hours later we x-ray the face of the "wall" to look for fractures on him aswell http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

S> Well in hands http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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So, Ruatha...

How about some stories of (weird) things that got swallowed? Surely there must be some.

Renegade 13: WIth the whole world at hand, it figures there would be a "ranchhand" available to comment on bulls http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif . And Canadian, no less!

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No thanks, no one needs to read stories like that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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My only medical disaster that I've personally been through involves a deli slicer. Need I elaborate?

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Been a while since Ruatha posted. Perhaps he got that autobahn pileup!

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Hope not, maybe that next shift of nurses had a couple of nice ones http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Nah, a couple of heads, a bowel, some lungs and some bones, and I've got to sleep for 2+1 hour http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif
If it hadn't been that the orthopedical doctor was inexperianced I'd still be sleeping, but she doesn't feel ready to judge all the x-rays alone yet... so I'm a gentleman and comes down and does it.
And now there's a suspected aortical aneurysm about to come in, so I'll have to wait for that one.

[ July 25, 2004, 03:55: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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The life of a doctor-type person. Sounds cool, and it involves science, which is always friggin awesome!

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I was in and out of hospitals most of my childhood (I am all grown up but have practically no hearing in one ear and I can't smell as well as other people because of surgery on my nose). Once I needed anesthetic and the nurse wanted to inject my backside. I was reluctant to pull down my pants and bare all so I kept asking if there wasn't another way to do it. During high school I got annoyed with another pupil and punched him. This was years before I learnt Karate, so I folded my thumb into my fist. For the rest of the day my thumb ached and started to swell. That afternoon I went to the doctor and was told I had cracked my thumb and i had to waer a splint for a few weeks. The doctor also explained to me how to punch properly.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Whoa. I thought that was just about 'instant death'.

This is when the lining of the aorta rips, without tearing open and spilling into the appropriate cavity, and the vessel swells up like a ballon. And then it does rip.

Is it not?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Whoa. I thought that was just about 'instant death'.

This is when the lining of the aorta rips, without tearing open and spilling into the appropriate cavity, and the vessel swells up like a ballon. And then it does rip.

Is it not? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yep, it was a ruptured aorta, bleeds into the thoracic cavity, but he still lives. (quite a surprise to us aswell, we didn't think it would be bleeding/ruptured, just enlarged and ruptures in the internal vessel wall)
Now home to bed. se Ya.

[ July 25, 2004, 08:29: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Whoa. I thought that was just about 'instant death'.

This is when the lining of the aorta rips, without tearing open and spilling into the appropriate cavity, and the vessel swells up like a ballon. And then it does rip.

Is it not? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sounds like what killed John Ritter.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmm....That could be an idea. A nice nurse to do some studies on.....

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmm....That could be an idea. A nice nurse to do some studies on..... </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Fraid not guys http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif If i recall from past Posts Ruatha and his fiance? (Not sure if they're engaged) are getting married soon.