As a nurse who graduated in the middle of COVID (and was working in hospitals leading up to it), A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher was surprisingly healing read.
“You expect heroes to survive terrible things. If you give them a medal, then you don’t ever have to ask why the terrible thing happened in the first place. Or try to fix it.”
Also, if we suspect you’ve done so (such as a hx of inserting items into orifices or swallowing them for pica or malingering reasons), we would do an XRay or CT first.
Imagine pinhead from hellraisers turned inside out. Also they might heat up and burn too.
Yeah they covered this is peds but that was literally my worst subject after l&d and it was 5 years ago lol. Couldn’t remember which one. I can tell you the risk factors for development of a personality disorder and rattle off the lifetime AND per shift screening / risk factors for violence up down and sideways tho.
Imma guess PDA. My gut says “the fetus forgot to finish patching up that one last little part before it came out” actually happens pretty damn often.
This is weirdly deep.
Ok fine? The fourth. They’re like sequels, worse every time.