What medical center has the craziest trauma hospital in the nation?

[UTAPlaya10]

I would really like to go to a medical school that is affiliated with a medical center with a really really hectic trauma center. That way, I'll be able to go into residency and get a lot of experience at what ever I do. What hospitals have you all heard of that are really really hectic and busy?

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[MilkmanAl]

Just go to school in a huge city known for having lots of crime. Detroit, L.A., Chicago, New York, Philly, and Boston are all good choices.

 

[armybound]

UT-Memphis if you're into gun shots.

I imagine Pitt has a lot of trauma. I believe there's a ranked list somewhere of med school trauma centers.

 

[EpiPEN]

Go to the truama center at Caduceus, USA where they have made great strides for truama surgical techinques against the emerging disease known as GUILT. 😉


No but you know how big or hectic your medical school hospitals' truama centers are probably won't affect you very much in terms of where you get in for residency right? That's a whole another process. Plus, any big hospital in an urban city will have an extremely busy truama center.

 

[LucidSplash]

Oh hell. Baltimore, MD (also known as Bodymore, Murderland), University of Maryland FTW. Home and originator of trauma medicine. And pink scrubs.

 

[tiedyeddog]

I also place a vote for Baltimore.

 

[spyderracing32]

Detroit Receiving = gun and knife club.

 

[Dulcina]

the hospital i volunteer at has i think the most prestegious ER program in the nation due to its volume of GSWs and stabbings--- Highland general hospital, in oakland.

 

[icevermin]

Check out Cooper Hospital in Camden NJ. We have Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital over in New Brunswick but Cooper takes the crown as the #1 Level 1 Trauma Center in the state.

 

[student1799]

NYC has 21 level I trauma centers, with several in each borough. In Manhattan we have Bellevue (mother of them all), St. Luke's (where I worked), Harlem Hospital, NY Presbyterian, and St. Vincent's.

Bellevue's plenty busy but some of the outer-borough ones may be even busier, such as King's County, Brookdale (crazy busy), and Jacobi in the Bronx. (BTW, that's across the street from Einstein.)

 

[bcat85]

I'd put in a vote for St. Louis. Baltimore is definitely worse though (but if you want to go there you either have to get into Maryland, which may be hard if you're OOS, or Hopkins (Good freakin' luck))

Though I suppose to get to STL you have to get into SLU or WashU

 

[Tygacil]

I'd have to put in my vote for the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Unit at The MED in Memphis. After all.. making easy money pimpin ho's is serious.

 

[bcat85]

I'd have to put in my vote for the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Unit at The MED in Memphis. After all.. making easy money pimpin ho's is serious.

Memphis is pretty rough too.

 

[Gobblox]

Miami...The Drug War is still going on here...Trust me...also you will see insane amounts of OD's as well as violence...Your covered on both fronts.

 

[cpants]

Check out Cooper Hospital in Camden NJ. We have Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital over in New Brunswick but Cooper takes the crown as the #1 Level 1 Trauma Center in the state.

What about the NJ Trauma Center at the University Hospital in Newark? More traumas than Cooper.

 

[side effect]

(in order)
1. R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (MD)
2. Detroit Receiving (MI)
3. Bellevue / Harlem (NYC)
4. Stroger Cook County (IL)

 

[Narmerguy]

Memphis is pretty rough too.

Extremely, at least 7-8 members of my family who live in Memphis have been murdered (all males). If you ever watch The First 48 Hours on A&E Memphis cases are extremely frequent (it's a show that covers the first 48 hours of a homicide case). Memphis is no joke.

Edit: Rest assured they were all in extremely poor/bad neighborhoods but I'm certain you'd have plenty of crazy cases in the Memphis trauma centers.

 

[amidoinitrite]

putting my 2 cents in for Parkland Hospital, Dallas TX

 

[riceman04]

I would really like to go to a medical school that is affiliated with a medical center with a really really hectic trauma center. That way, I'll be able to go into residency and get a lot of experience at what ever I do. What hospitals have you all heard of that are really really hectic and busy?

Any large city!

I will say though that you might benefit from attending a school in a city with a very poor healthcare infrustructure...cough cough...Los Angeles...cough cough.


There are not nearly enough level 1 trauma centers in Los Angeles...and with the closing of King Drew most major traumas are sent to UCLA-Reagan, County-USC, and UCLA-Harbor General.

 

[ACSurgeon]

I would really like to go to a medical school that is affiliated with a medical center with a really really hectic trauma center. That way, I'll be able to go into residency and get a lot of experience at what ever I do. What hospitals have you all heard of that are really really hectic and busy?

What's with you and extremes? BEST SCHOO/TOP CHOICE/ CRAZIEST hospital... all in a week... chill

 

[UTAPlaya10]

What's with you and extremes? BEST SCHOO/TOP CHOICE/ CRAZIEST hospital... all in a week... chill

Answer the question or don't post. It's that simple.

 

[riceman04]

Answer the question or don't post. It's that simple.

hmmmm...I like to rebel as well....WHAT'S WITH YOU AND ALL THESE "EXTREME" THREADS....BEST SCHOOL/MOST TRAUMA.

😎

 

[UTAPlaya10]

hmmmm...I like to rebel as well....WHAT'S WITH YOU AND ALL THESE "EXTREME" THREADS....BEST SCHOOL/MOST TRAUMA.

😎

Come on people, just be like everyone else and answer the question. Everyone actually helped the cause, don't be douches.

 

[LucidSplash]

Come on people, just be like everyone else and answer the question. Everyone actually helped the cause, don't be douches.

You obviously haven't hung around SDN that long.

 

[UTAPlaya10]

Well I have been on SDN but I've just started posting recently. I'm learning new things everyday....not all of them good...

 

[pntgrd]

County USC.

 

[LadyWolverine]

1. R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (MD)

Damn skippy. Can't beat U of Maryland in this department! 🙂

(Although, I will second whoever nominated County/USC - I was interviewed there by the chief of trauma surgery. He apologized for being a bit late because he had had his hands in some guy's chest like 10 minutes before walking in the door. I thought that was pretty intense.)

 

[HigHal320]

the hospital i volunteer at has i think the most prestegious ER program in the nation due to its volume of GSWs and stabbings--- Highland general hospital, in oakland.

👍 I also volunteered at highland. lots of GSWs and stabbings.

 

[BlackDr2b]

If King in LA was still open I would give that a vote cuz all they used to get is gun shot victims. That's why it was called Killa King!

 

[devilpup]

That's why it was called Killa King!

ouch! it will be a couple of years before it fully opens again and becomes the major trauma center of south Los Angeles. But despite all its bad rep. the hospital did serve so many underserved patients. oh well...

 

[wolvbb]

Don't forget about Grady in ATL... You get covered with tons and tons of gunshots, stabbings, blunt trauma, OD's, and the more seriously injured rich folk.

The only level one trauma for almost 200miles

 

[student1799]

Don't forget about Grady in ATL... You get covered with tons and tons of gunshots, stabbings, blunt trauma, OD's, and the more seriously injured rich folk.

The only level one trauma for almost 200miles

I have no personal knowledge, but based on an article I read last year in the NY Times, Grady's in very sad shape these days. My MD mentor says they have historically had a kick-*** medical team, but the Times says their budget has now been cut down so far they barely have pencils in the place. The computer system is so old and antiquated that they have to manage the patient flow on a dry-erase board.

What the hell are the budget-cutters thinking?