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...necrotizing fascitis. I see commotion around the room of another established patient on our team just before 7 am -- the consultant arrived and saw that she was in respiratory distress. She is emergently intubation (again). At 7 am, the other team begins taking admissions, and my call night is officially finished. Seven admissions, two self-extubations, a fallen patient, a crashing patient, a...

Yesterday was "pleasant" due to having to go to the dentist's emergently for my toothache, to be told that they were going to have to do a root canal, that it would take another visit yet, that they wanted to do a wide variety of additional work on me, and that the emergency work would take several thousand dollars. Then, they couldn't complete the work planned to complete the root canal; I was ...