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070 - Pasta on Belly - A Crazy Medical Story to Decrease Your Stress & Burnout In Medical Practice

Coach JPMD Season 2 Episode 70

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What would you do if you found spaghetti on a patient’s belly—but not where you’d expect it?

Transitioning from corporate to independent practice can be daunting, but as a young physician, you face bizarre and unexpected challenges every day. This episode highlights a jaw-dropping medical story that underscores the unpredictable nature of healthcare and the importance of being prepared for anything.

  • Get an inside look at the wild and unpredictable experiences physicians encounter in the emergency room
  • Understand the importance of quick thinking and adaptability in high-stress medical situations
  • Learn how sharing and hearing stories like this one can provide camaraderie and support among healthcare professionals

Hit play now to dive into this unbelievable medical story and gain insights into handling the unexpected in your own practice.

Discover how medical graduates, junior doctors, and young physicians can navigate residency training programs, surgical residency, and locum tenens to increase income, enjoy independent practice, decrease stress, achieve financial freedom, and retire early, while maintaining patient satisfaction and exploring physician side gigs to tackle medical school loans.

Welcome back to another episode where I help younger physicians decrease stress and increase income by transitioning from corporate to independent practices, even without any business experience. Now here's today's crazy story. Patient with pasta on his belly. Before joining my current practice, I worked in a downtown emergency room in Miami. It used to be called Cedars Medical Center. I believe University of Miami bought them. had a fair number of interesting stories, but one stands out till this day. was a nursing home patient that had mild dementia who presented to the ER after having bowel surgery. He was a very poor historian and it was difficult for the nurses to get anything out of him. They told me that he had food on his abdomen and that he had abdominal pain and they really couldn't tell me much more. Upon examining him, was definitely food on his belly. It was spaghetti that he must have had for lunch. The problem was that it wasn't inside his bowel. It was outside of his bowel. The patient had a dehist abdominal wound and the nurses, nursing staff was unaware of this. And when I went to examine the patient, pulled the gown up, the patient had peristalsis, I saw peristalsis of his bowels with spaghetti on top of it. Needless to say, he was taken to the OR for an emergency surgery. Do you want to hear more stories like this? Subscribe to our podcast and never miss an episode.