Hey internet friend.
I want to see my fellow brethren stay happy and fulfilled, as best as possible.
It's easy to get down about these patients. They do nothing to take care of themselves and they want you to fix them so they can continue to not take care of themselves.
Somedays this stuff frustrates me, but I'm learning to just let go.
It's not a big deal to give her some clonidine 0.2 mg PO q1hr x2 doses
run some labs
maybe some toradol or even a norco for her myalgias
spend a little bit of tax payers money and rule out the flu.
make her feel a little bit better.
Another way I look at this is there is nothing in this world that I can do to change her ultimate outcome. Which is she will get a stroke, dissection, or MI in the next 5 years. Nothing. You can admit her, run every single test, put her on drips, educate her...it won't matter.
So if there is nothing I can do to help them, I'll try to make them feel a little bit better.
Bring their pressure down to 160/90 and call it a day.
You are more important to this board and this group than that patient is to our society. Take care of yourself. I would hate to see you lose it and leave EM over something like this.
