How Google Buzz can take Twitter Down

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Google's Buzz is getting to be very fun. The maps integration is, IMO, going to be the key to its success and eventual domination of Twitter. How is that, you ask? Well, Google just need to incorporate one more key piece of functionality that Twitter doesn't have. Following an area.

Define an area in Maps, or a location and get the Buzz from there. Follow your workplace, rather than coworkers. Hear the buzz in your neighborhood, automatically, without locating it in Maps. Follow your favorite team's arena. Business owners could follow their business to assist them in developing a client base and respond to their requests or concerns.

Anyone else have ideas about Buzz?

Anyone else find this amusing?

So, I had to snap this shot. Just in case the MD yells for, "4 ounces of chocolate pudding stat!" in the midst of a code.

Chief Complaint of the Day

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Patient: My urine tastes like honey.

Me: Well...that's not normal.

So, instead of going to the PCP to ask what this could mean, this patient decides to take a trip to the ER. Of course he's in DKA at this point, however, he should have seen his PCP long before this.

Order of the Day

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"Change Aspercream (sic) to Aspercreme cream..."

So, a pharmacist apparently decided the original order was not clear enough, due to the missspelling. Really? Let's waste more time!

Have you ever watched someone die on Telemetry?

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It happed to me the other day at work. This patient was actively dying, post hemorrhagic stroke and ICU stay, and the family finally decided to change the code status to DNR. It was amazing to actually see the process from ischemia to injury to necrosis play out in front of my eyes. It only took 30 minutes from the beginning of ST elevation to asystole. Morbid, I know, however when learning how to read EKGs you see the models of how ischemia translates on an EKG. You just don't see it play out it before you without interventions frequently.