Modra Jagoda 2025-09-11T21:15:20Z
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Rain lashed against the ER windows as the ambulance bay doors hissed open. Paramedics rushed in a gurney carrying Mr. Peterson—pale, gasping, clutching his chest. His wife thrust a crumpled pharmacy list at me, her voice trembling through the chaos of monitor alarms. "He took his morning pills, then collapsed." My eyes scanned the cocktail: amiodarone, digoxin, warfarin—a cardiac trifecta dancing on a knife's edge. My resident suggested IV flecainide to stabilize the arrhythmia, but my gut twist
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The fluorescent lights hummed like angry hornets above Ward 7 as Mrs. Kowalski's vitals spiraled into chaos. Sweat beaded on my forehead as the cardiac monitor shrieked its mechanical panic - 82-year-old female, post-hip replacement, suddenly tachycardic with plummeting BP. My resident froze mid-sentence, eyes darting between the crashing patient and the five medication syringes scattered on the steel cart. That familiar ice-cold dread shot through my veins: polypharmacy blindspot. We'd missed s
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That frantic beeping from the monitor still echoes in my ears - 3AM on a Tuesday, fluorescent lights humming like angry bees. Mrs. Kowalski's EKG danced erratically while her daughter thrust a crumpled pharmacy list at me, five medications scribbled in trembling handwriting. My own hands shook as I mentally flipped through pharmacology chapters buried under years of sleep deprivation. Then I remembered the blue icon I'd downloaded after that disastrous polypharmacy seminar. Fumbling with my phon