Updated follow rules:
Friendly reminder: it's good to be assertive, but it's not good to be aggressive, and there's a not-so-fine line between assertive and aggressive, and you cross that line (nay, yeet yourself deep into aggressive territory) the moment you decide other people's boundaries don't matter. Assertiveness is a good thing, but assertive people also take others into account and try very hard to not cross others' boundaries. Be assertive, not aggressive.
Bad habits I need to break
If I do this to you, I'm really sorry. I'm trying not to act flippant about stuff, I really am.
Caps
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH OUT FOR? WHY AM I TO BE CAUTIOUS?! WHAT SECRETS DO YOU HOLD?!?!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0yM97gsjLM
Anyways, if you want to read those, they're from Extraordinary Cases in Emergency Medicine by Douglas Brunette, specifically Chapter 10, "Intriguing"
That chapter also features someone spreading weed on a finger for pain relief (it didn't work, but they did let him keep the weed), an impromptu nose piercing with a bullet (don't run towards the gunshots!), a teen putting lemonade in a urine test cup ("the lemonade was sterile, and the pregnancy test was negative"), and quote "I'm not sexually active, I'm married" (which I'm not entirely sure how to interpret)
Key learning points
- Paruresis is a psychiatric condition that describes a social phobia of urinating in public bathrooms.
- This patient did not have paruresis.
If this sorta stuff is what I have to look forward to doing EM, damn is it gonna be a wild ride.
Oh geez, the next case has a figure with caption "Verbatim response of a patient who was asked why he urinated on three walls of his examination room"
The reason? He was "marking his territory."
The outcome is also intriguing: "We referred the patient to the OB/GYN clinic for her 'depo shot,' but we did not provide her with a 'panic attack.'"
But in all seriousness, I can't say I like doing them. I'm terrified I'm going to, like, break the baby's leg or something. They're so small and I'm, well, not.
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