A psychiatrist must call on her previous training to help a cyclist with critical head and spinal injuries in the middle of Death Valley.
Emergencies happen anywhere, anytime, and sometimes medical professionals find themselves in situations where they are the only ones who can help.I was doing a road trip through California and Nevada with my 9-year-old daughter, Amelia, and my sister, Naomi. The only request I had on the trip was to see Death Valley, so we took a Jeep tour.Death Valley is majestic. It is one of the driest places in the world, stark and arid and remote, but so beautiful. You think you're on the moon.
Now here's the fun part: I'm a psychiatrist. And as a psychiatrist, my biggest fear is that something horrible might happen and all I can do is say,"Well, how do youBut as students and residents, we do thousands of hours of training. We rotate through everything. Those memories of being in the emergency room all came back. I remembered my ABCs. I remembered to stabilize the C spine, check for blunt trauma, all of those things.
We went through his pockets. There was no ID, but he had a phone on his bike. I asked if we could call his wife ― assuming he was married ― because I needed to get his medical information. About 20 minutes into it, somebody came up with a pair of gloves. But by then I was already covered in blood. Buzz had lacerated his tongue badly, and his mouth was full of blood. He kept saying,"Can I turn my head and spit?" And I kept saying,"No, but we'll help you clean it out." So, we would swab out his mouth with paper towels. He asked me a few times to get up, and I said no.
By that time, I had taken his medical history, his allergy history, his medication history. I got his name and contact information. I presented it to the EMTs as if I were a medical student to an attending.Luckily, someone had soap and water and paper towels so I was able to clean myself up. Then I went back to my 9-year-old who had been sitting in this Jeep for an hour. My sister had been checking on her. My daughter was great. She stayed put. I didn't want her to see all of that.
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