It takes a lot to traumatise a trauma doctor. At 2am on Monday morning, as I ended my 10-hour shift at Auckland City Hospital Emergency Department, another set of doctors were a third of the way through their overnight shift. It was hard not to felt traumatised at the scale of alcohol abuse we’d witnessed the night before: the country is gearing up for the festive season and, on that shift, every second patient was heavily intoxicated, many unconscious and badly hurt.
from Olivia W’s Blog Rss http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/87022022/Dr-Tom-Mulholland-How-to-avoid-the-emergency-department-this-Christmas
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http://oliviawhinham79.tumblr.com/post/153997099986
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