Reddit mentions of Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs

http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-True-Stories-From-Nations/dp/0312962657/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343869993&sr=8-1&keywords=emergency+mark+brown

Apologies if this has already been posted here; I searched, but it didn't come up.

I first saw this in a post) by /u/Yiotter on /r/wtf about two years ago. I was browsing through the posts here when I was reminded of it and figured some people here might enjoy it.

And here's the entire text, to make it easier to read:

>The seventy-year-old female patient had a history of frequent urinary-tract infections. She had a fever and slight back pain, so I ordered a catheterized urine specimen to be sent to the lab. I went on to the other patients, but th nurse soon returned and said she had tried to cath the woman but couldn't find her urethra -- the opening to the bladder. She had asked several other nurses to help her cath the lady, but no one could find her urethral opening. I decided to help, and went to the patient's bedside. I found an elderly, pleasant woman who told me about the history of frequent urinary problems and told me she was childless.

>I examined the woman's perineum and identified the larger oriface of what appeared to be the vaginal fault and searched above this for the urethral opening. I couldn't find an opening either, but as I looked, some urine trickled out of the vagina. Suspecting a fistula connecting the bladder to the vagina, or an embedded urethral meatus, I decided to look inside the vagina with a speculum. As I readied to do this, however, I noticed something underneath the vagina, on the perineum, and looked closer. I found the patient's vagina and intact hymen under what I had assumed was the vagina. I realized that the upper opening she was using as a vagina was in fact the patient's urethra. I asked the woman if she had any problems with sexual relations with her husband.

>"Not really. It hurt the first year or so, but it was fine after that."

>She had been married for fifty-two years.

>Charles Hagen, M.D.

>Auburn, Alabama


And this is the book it's taken from.

Here is the book

How so? Doctors share stories all the time. This book I'm reading is full of them. I don't recall my HIPAA training word-for-word, but the gist of it is that you can share information if the patient can't be identified.

The book, if you want to buy it.

Emergency!

Really good read, lots of short stories, presented in a way that really emulates the flow in an ED.

Edit: I should maybe add that the stories aren't all funny, so it can move from hilarious to utterly soulcrushing with no warning.

1,000 Naked Strangers

More of a dramatic retelling of a career in field EMS. Good writing, interesting.

Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs

https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-True-Stories-Nations-ERs/dp/0312962657

It's a great read

I've read this book. Emergency! by Mark Brown, MD.
https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-True-Stories-Nations-ERs-ebook/dp/0312962657/

If you like reading in your downtime you should check out Emergency! by Mark Brown M.D. Hands down the most popular book I've ever bought, loaned out and never gotten back 3 times. Next time I'm at a book store, will buy again, but this time, I keep it!

[Emergency! By Dr Mark Brown] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0312962657/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1368571597&sr=8-1&pi=SL75)

"I noticed something underneath the vagina, on the perineum, and looked closer. I found the patients vagina and intact hymen under what I had assumed was the vagina"

They had been married 52 years!

Should I mention this is my favorite book and it stays on my nightstand?

I purchased it from Amazon back in February and found it to be a good mix of stories. They're not all as crazy as this one, but well worth the $8.

Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs

$7 on Amazon.

I searched some of the text and found it. It's "Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation's ERs" by Mark Brown. It's here on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-True-Stories-Nations-ERs/dp/0312962657

Here it was from this book, which is supposedly a work of non-fiction.

I am reading a book right now about ER stories, in real life.

Some are funny, some are gruesome, some are extremely poignant.

Emergency!

Also: Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Link to the book this is from for anyone interested.

I saw that post too. It prompted me to buy the book: [Emergency!] (http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-True-Stories-From-Nations/dp/0312962657)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emergency-True-Stories-Nations-Ers/dp/0312962657/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1345156039&sr=8-2

It's not one memoir, but a whole host of anecdotes and stories from ER Dr's and nurses. Not exactly what you're looking for, but a good read.

There is a book written by Dr. Mark Brown called Emergency which has a very similar story.

https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-True-Stories-From-Nations/dp/0312962657/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1YJH1KXGIMTY4&coliid=I1ET72DKAW1STP