Maybe you should just stay at home

Somehow when you see your grandmother across the room from you in the emergency department that it's probably time to go home. I had a patient who was being seen for low back pain and he saw his granny just 5 feet away from him. I'm sure he felt pathetic...pssh...back pain...

So there was this patient in clinic ...19 year old girl who was complaining of groin pain for 2 weeks. She went to student health and they said well it could be appendicitis...maybe not. They told her to go to emerg if it got worse in the next 15 hours. No follow up. So she went to physio the next day and in fact it was her friend who noticed that her right leg veins looked a little more prominent than her left leg veins. Turns out she had a HUGE DVT extending from the common iliac vein to the superficial femoral vein. What a way to get out of an exam....