tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post1047612255180832647..comments2024-03-02T02:26:00.928-05:00Comments on bleakonomy: Primary care is for chumpstetracontadigonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04604381739383227553noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-9925634484334552392008-12-19T09:53:00.000-05:002008-12-19T09:53:00.000-05:00Wow. OK. That's a pretty terrible ED physician.Wow. OK. That's a pretty terrible ED physician.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953173396955681485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-55167854806029864502008-12-18T16:26:00.000-05:002008-12-18T16:26:00.000-05:00OK, one story. Once, at one of the many, many hos...OK, one story. Once, at one of the many, many hospitals at which I have worked in the past nine years, I saw a physician get into a power struggle with a patient in his late teens/early twenties over allowing a genital exam. The patient was refusing, and the physician was threatening to have him restrained so the exam could be performed. Keep in mind, the presenting complaint had <I> nothing </I> to do with the genitals, and there was nothing in the clinical scenario to indicate a need for such an exam. But, you see, the patient had <I> refused a complete exam, </I> and at the point when I left (going off shift) he was threatening to call security for restraint.<BR/><BR/>This was before I was the maven of adolescent medicine you know and love (whoops! A clue!), and I am now blessedly in such a position that I could prevent lunacy of this kind. Oh, and yes, the physician in question was on the ED staff.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11213051268392108382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-70461023934499487222008-12-18T15:54:00.000-05:002008-12-18T15:54:00.000-05:00I want to hear about the terrible ED physicians!An...I want to hear about the terrible ED physicians!<BR/><BR/>And personally, I'll pay someone NOT to touch my stomach. Ticklish!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953173396955681485noreply@blogger.com