Comments on: The Art of Intubation http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/01/the-art-of-intubation/ A blog from inside the emergency department Wed, 22 May 2013 00:58:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: resident http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/01/the-art-of-intubation/#comment-11126 resident Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:28:57 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=1897#comment-11126 thatwhichis, your comment is totally unprofessional.

]]> By: Physasst http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/01/the-art-of-intubation/#comment-6535 Physasst Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:17:11 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=1897#comment-6535 Wow.
What an over the top reaction, and completely unprofessional. I can sympathize with one of your concerns about non physicians in the ED. Which is why I push our department to let the PA students try and get some procedures in (besides suturing). One of the smaller ED’s I moonlight at, has no physician on duty-it’s too small, so the PA is often the only provider there. Intubation can be easy as cake with some patients, or extraordinarily difficult with others. I would urge others here to realize that PA’s will occasionally, and no, not ideally, but occasionally be in situations where intubation and other procedures may be needed. I would encourage the readers to please make sure to help educate and train PA’s and NP’s in regards to these procedures, you may be saving someone’s life someday.

]]> By: Chrysalis http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/01/the-art-of-intubation/#comment-6510 Chrysalis Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:44:23 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=1897#comment-6510 Sad thing. He and the patients would have been better off if he had taken you up on your offer and learned to do it properly.

]]> By: thatwhichis http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/01/the-art-of-intubation/#comment-6508 thatwhichis Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:18:59 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=1897#comment-6508 The process of separating the wheat from the chaff in emergency medicine is clearly far from effective. Come the f*ck on. Should we tolerate 747 pilots who can’t manage to land the jet, or cops who can’t hit the target at 25 yards?

The fact that you felt the need to soft-pedal this issue with him is remarkable. You are a spineless POS.

A leader doesn’t ‘get the back’ of an incompetent subordinate. You should have had the guts to lay out your expectations and given him a date certain to either meet the ‘standard’ or get the f*ck out.

Why do professionals tolerate this crap? Is the physician in question black, queer, or from some other oppressed minority ?? Did you give him a pass so that the ‘group picture’ would look more like America?

]]> By: paul http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/01/the-art-of-intubation/#comment-6469 paul Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:15:49 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=1897#comment-6469 it’s gotta be pretty tough to be an ed doc that can’t intubate… the skill comes up more than every now and then.

]]> By: Abgi http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/01/the-art-of-intubation/#comment-6466 Abgi Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:32:53 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=1897#comment-6466 Shadow, are you saying the writer is a bad manager?

If so, what would you have done??

]]> By: Mottsapplesauce http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/01/the-art-of-intubation/#comment-6465 Mottsapplesauce Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:47:45 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=1897#comment-6465 Gives new meaning to the phrase, ‘chip on his shoulder’. Obviously he felt this marked him as incompetent, despite all his other skills, otherwise he wouldn’t have reacted the way he did.

]]> By: shadowfax http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/01/the-art-of-intubation/#comment-6460 shadowfax Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:10:05 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=1897#comment-6460 Hmm. Maybe a better title for this post would have been “The Art of Personnel Management,” or, from the other perspective, “A great way to get yourself fired.”

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