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    Many times over the past 8 years that Mike has been practicing Emergency Medicine, he has told me about his interesting cases. He continues to do so now.

    When we get together with friends, especially other doctors or my sister, Emili & her husband, Dallon who is a physician's assistant, the conversation and exchange of experiences can get pretty lively. Some of the stories are wild! Don't worry, he doesn't share names or information that might betray confidentiality.

    I enjoy hearing these tales. The only problem is when we're eating dinner and the story gets more detailed or gory than I want to hear at the moment. I guess it's part of being married to a doctor.

    So these are written by me-to the best of my recalling ability-after Mike has related his experiences. I thought you might find some of these stories as fascinating as I do.

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February 28, 2012

A Fearful Mother

A mother brought her 6 month old baby to the hospital because she was worried the baby’s head was too big. Her doctor decided to order a CT scan for the child. On the scan they noticed a couple of subtle things that could have been problematic, but were not anything that needed emergent intervention. However, they immediately sent her to the ER for an MRI at 10:00 at night.

The baby was not vomiting, was not sick at all. He was fine. Mike didn’t think it was medically right to order an an expensive, inappropriate test late at night for a baby that was perfectly happy. He discharged the patient, recommending an MRI in the next few days.

Why was all this going on? Because of fear.

Moral of the story: Fear clouds our common sense, costs a lot of money and can ultimately harm us through poor decisions.

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