Originally Posted By: Arney
Originally Posted By: Jesselp
Folks, if you’re in extreme pain, and it hasn’t gone away on it’s own relatively quickly, it’s probably not going to go away.

My thinking about the emergency room and calling 911 was changed a little over 10 years ago after reading Emergency Medicine by Dr. Stephan Lynn.


Arney,

Really small world. I actually know Dr. Lynn. Really nice guy, and super smart. He is (or was) the head of emergency medicine at St Lukes - Roosevelt Hospitals, and I went to high school with his daughter.

He has some great stories to tell (as you might imagine). The most famous of which is that he is the doctor who treated, and ultimately pronounced the death of John Lenon. He had to give the nurses a moment to stop crying and compose themselves before allowing the family to come in and see they body. (He wrote about the experience in the NY Times on one of the anniversaries of Lenon’s death.)