I met Ken Smith, in 2009, when I came to St. Louis Children’s Hospital to pursue training in pediatric emergency medicine. By that time he had already been working there as a nurse for 13 years, before the 13 years we worked together. Despite the amount of time I spent working with him, I was […]
As an emergency medicine physician I frequently have to perform procedures on patients (or provide sedation as a consultant performs a procedure). Of the procedures we perform in the emergency department and have time to discuss with families, the spinal tap, a.k.a. the lumbar puncture (LP for short), seems to instill the most fear in […]
What does a pediatrician do when their own kids are sick? I drafted this post weeks ago, but finished it tonight after spending the day at home with Rogue Three, who is sick (not seriously ill), so the timing couldn’t be better. Many people have skills they develop for work that they end up using outside […]