http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/10/27/joel-diamond-102809/ Physician practice and systems news and opinion Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:13:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/10/27/joel-diamond-102809/comment-page-1/#comment-765 thirdtriplet Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:29:30 +0000 http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/10/27/joel-diamond-102809/#comment-765 One term that I believe I coined and that has become popular among the other residents in my residency program is "failure to die", a twist on that nebulous ED admitting diagnosis of "failure to thrive" in an elderly, usually demented, and usually full-code patient who has no identifiable life-threatening acute illness but whom the ED doc just can't justify sending back home or, more frequently, back to the nursing home from whence he came. One term that I believe I coined and that has become popular among the other residents in my residency program is “failure to die”, a twist on that nebulous ED admitting diagnosis of “failure to thrive” in an elderly, usually demented, and usually full-code patient who has no identifiable life-threatening acute illness but whom the ED doc just can’t justify sending back home or, more frequently, back to the nursing home from whence he came.

]]> http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/10/27/joel-diamond-102809/comment-page-1/#comment-722 endoIndiana Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:58:31 +0000 http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/10/27/joel-diamond-102809/#comment-722 At a code, first take your own pulse. The patient is the one with the disease. Buff and Turf. I still secretly categorize my ER docs as seives or walls. At a code, first take your own pulse. The patient is the one with the disease. Buff and Turf. I still secretly categorize my ER docs as seives or walls.

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