tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post6147604043622641741..comments2009-12-13T15:40:39.227+02:00Bongihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-14821813759890801862009-12-13T15:40:39.227+02:002009-12-13T15:40:39.227+02:00The sense of humour is a very personal thing as I have found. It&#39;s just that the differences get particularly highlighted in your profession...NesQuarXhttp://www.nesquarx.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-44950202121832714092009-11-15T05:33:07.273+02:002009-11-15T05:33:07.273+02:00two discharges, one death, one patient remaining: how can you be having a busy day unless they were all Whipples?DHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251680600047999918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-70303143914759050772009-11-04T10:01:27.172+02:002009-11-04T10:01:27.172+02:00anonymous, i actually don&#39;t know what monitors were on this patient. however probably the only one worth anything in a move to the ct bed would have been the pulse oxymeter, which can be deceptively unreliable.<br /><br />neurosurgery can be a very philosophical field. no neurosurgeon is going to cut a guy&#39;s skull open without a scan. if he is already coning it&#39;s probably already too late to do anything. the casualty guy phoned the neuro guy and carried out his instructions. between casualties and ct, obviously something happened. i&#39;m not sure it was avoidable. it was already too late.Bongihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-19308347717540678012009-11-04T08:51:33.312+02:002009-11-04T08:51:33.312+02:00I think the somewhat warped sense of humour is a coping mechanism &amp; without it - particularly the medical professionals - would be complete nutcases! I thought your story was funny :-)<br /><br />When I collected my fatherinlaw&#39;s ashes from the funeral director, I just made it outside of the building before bursting into a fit of hysterical laughter......I honestly couldn&#39;t help myself. I just thought to myself &quot;&#39;ey up grandad, you&#39;re alot lighter now than what you were when you went in!&quot; Even my motherbylaw had to laugh :-)Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546956519928584352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-28907572246032788312009-11-04T07:48:42.185+02:002009-11-04T07:48:42.185+02:00<b>Anonymous 5:42 AM</b><br /><br />I&#39;m a radiologist. <br /><br />I&#39;m surprised that an unstable, severely injured patient was shifted to scan without attached pulse-oximeter &amp;/or ECG monitor. In radiology we don&#39;t routinely attach monitors except for cardiac scans.Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710965375559259238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-12663706431392501282009-11-04T05:42:06.493+02:002009-11-04T05:42:06.493+02:00question - i&#39;m not in medicine but enjoy reading about it: are there no monitors on the patient during the scan process that would indicate death? or is it only because the abdomen was scanned that there weren&#39;t monitors to tell you when the heart stopped?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-6826712047575496152009-11-04T00:53:17.362+02:002009-11-04T00:53:17.362+02:00Different senses of humour don&#39;t just apply to medicos and lay people. It&#39;s a cross-cultural phenomenon too. I&#39;ve been in the UK for nearly 20 years and STILL I have to watch myself. I used to think I just had a warped sense of humour until I encountered other South Africans here. Now I know it&#39;s not just me. That&#39;s inordinately comforting, but not to these Poms ;)Jabulanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12847825459654555235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-45431937771221956842009-11-03T21:48:41.607+02:002009-11-03T21:48:41.607+02:00Very funny story...you&#39;ve just updated the &quot;House of God&#39;s&quot; First Resus Rule=always check your own pulse firstMel Contenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412687641086655011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-36642138952307919552009-11-03T19:19:01.280+02:002009-11-03T19:19:01.280+02:00:) <br /><br />…{ :) }…<br /><br />PS. first smile for the story. i&#39;ve diagnosed death on imaging. the second smile between parenthesis is an in joke between me &amp; the great bongo!Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710965375559259238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-16662736647126998802009-11-03T15:06:20.828+02:002009-11-03T15:06:20.828+02:00I must admit, when I first heard this story, I also thought it was very funny. It&#39;s true that we see humour in things that aren&#39;t funny to others or joke about patients being selfish to come in or deteriorate when it&#39;s inconvenient to us. Of course we don&#39;t really mean it, but lay people seem to be offended by that sort of thing. Sometimes we have to adjust, depending on what company we&#39;re in. We do get touched by the human side of it, but it&#39;s also easy for us to dissociate or move on quickly. Most of the time.amanzimtotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547897825508141342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-60854632028047902592009-11-03T15:03:09.313+02:002009-11-03T15:03:09.313+02:00Well, I guess I&#39;m with DHS and amanzimtoti. I am &quot;horrified&quot; that the diagnosis of death had to be made by radiologic imaging.rlbateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236331355857884458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-7669157856752270402009-11-03T14:43:10.918+02:002009-11-03T14:43:10.918+02:00actually. it is funny. I think having to diagnose death (via imaging, blood tests) is always funny.DHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251680600047999918noreply@blogger.com