A friend of mine who works in social services showed me a picture he’d taken of a rash on one of his clients who they sent to the ED. Came back positive for monkey pox. Fever, chills, exhaustion, painful sores and blisters. Just like with COVID once upon a time monkeypox was far away from…
When I see murals in the city, it makes me feel love and joy for life and the people of Hartford. And these Below, gone, but not forgotten.
When I was a precepting medic, I had a young boy as a patient. I heard a rumbling sound and my preceptor said “Look out!” Not a second later, the boy vomited all over me. “You’ll learn to recognize the signs,” my preceptor said, handing me a towel. The mark of an experienced medic is…
The patient had lost nearly two liters of blood and was barely responsive. I arrived shortly after the primary medic who told me to get the blood set up while he extricated the patient with his partner. As the rapid response medic, I carry the whole blood (0 negative) in a special cooler. I check…
The patient is lying under the slide at the playground jungle gym. It is a blistering hot day and this may have been the only shade she could find. She is unresponsive, cyanotic and breathing agonally. Her pupils are small. From the hard lines on her face and poor dentition, I surmise a life outdoors…