My patient died (lessons learned)
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
There are certain things in medicine which simply can't be taught by reading a textbook.
Not everything follows an algorithm.
About one year ago I had an 80 year old patient who kept complaining of nausea and abdominal pain after having a cholecystectomy. The surgeons kept telling her this was normal following this type of procedure and prescribed Zofran.
Well, she eventually came into my ER and she didn't look to good. She became septic.
We followed the septic protocol - but she ended up dying.
Today, I want to share a very important lesson I learned...
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? So if you've been listening to the podcast and watching the YouTube videos, then last week you probably noticed that things were a little bit different. |
| 0:06.2 | They may have sounded a little bit different, but change is good and the message was well received, so I wanted to build on that. |
| 0:13.6 | And I wanted to talk about some more things |
| 0:15.2 | that were on my mind after I got off a long shift today. |
| 0:18.0 | Well, before we talk about today's topics, |
| 0:20.2 | I just want to make a quick announcement. |
| 0:21.9 | Some of you guys might already be aware that we are changing our name from PA boards to med geeks. |
| 0:28.0 | And the reason why we're doing that is because technically we're not the physician assistant boards. |
| 0:35.0 | We're not on the NCCPA board members and we don't want to confuse you guys or |
| 0:39.7 | mislead you guys ever in any way so we're changing it from PA boards to med geeks and I'm |
| 0:45.7 | personally super excited about the name change I've got my glasses on today in |
| 0:49.6 | honor of the name chains and I just am happy to embrace my inner geek, happy to embrace my inner |
| 0:56.8 | nerd and honestly I think it's a well-fitting name because when I'm not practicing |
| 1:01.8 | medicine I'm probably reading about it and if |
| 1:04.3 | I'm not reading about it I'm probably talking about it. So we're changing our name |
| 1:08.4 | from PA boards to med geeks and I'm really excited about that. So another thing that I wanted to talk about with you guys today |
| 1:15.1 | is that we never ever need to downplay the severity of any illness |
| 1:20.2 | in our patients. |
| 1:21.5 | And you're probably thinking to yourself, you know, no, Gray, I never downplay |
| 1:25.9 | with the severity of any illness in my patients. I think about all my patients critically |
| 1:31.3 | and I take everything into consideration and I never never downplay the severity of any |
| 1:36.3 | of my illnesses to my patients. |
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