Wear a helmet. It's better than the alternative...

[tavalon]

223. Not a contest but, yeah, I saw most of that,

with the caveat that they were already on a backboard and being rushed into trauma two. I spent two years at that ED and I can't say I miss it. It was a challenge and I learned a lot but I could never be a lifer there, though so many of my fellow classmates did just that.

The week after I took PALS, I had every scenario played out in real life. I was sure that some malevolent entity was cribbing (or pimping) me.

And, of course, not all of my time was spent assigned to the trauma area. I had my fair share of weekly comers, who needed banana bags and brochures to AA. I provided the first. I wish we had provided the second.

I was never a dare devil in the car, nor even rode on a motorcycle but once, but I saw it all. Well, not all. Thank goodness, we had BAMC (Brooke Army Medical Center), where burn victims were taken, usually. To this day, I keep an extinguisher in every room, and fire detectors in every room. Weird, huh, that the thing I saw the least of, scares me to death?

These days, I'm happily ensconced in a NICU that calls itself level 3, but is really just a level 2 and frankly, I prefer that. Some of my younger colleagues are chomping at the bit to move to Childrens or UW (I don't live in Texas anymore) but I've no interest in surgical NICU care, nor in losing my patients. We rarely lose patients where I work.