Well, I'm back in Pediatrics for the final 4 months of my training. On call this weekend, I learned something new about American culture: car surfing. The trauma code pager went off and announced a 'Level II Peds trauma'. Gathering information from the field reports on this soon-to-arrive patient to our ER, I overheard a dictation describing the 'car surfing accident'.
Car surfing: what's that. A nurse nearby smiled and told me that there was 'car surfing' and 'car skurfing'. Apparently, (according to this local authority, anyway) car surfing is when you stand on the roof of a car while someone else drives. You then put your hands out in the air (allegedly, to steady yourself) to 'surf' the wind. Skurfing is when you're on a skateboard and hold onto a bumper or some other part of a car while it drives.
Back to our trauma. A 17-year old female had climbed onto the roof of the car and getting ready to stand up on it and 'surf'. Unfortunately, her boyfriend started the car in motion a moment too soon to her and she 'wasn't quite ready' and fell off. 'Fortunately', the only injury she suffered was a nondisplaced skull fracture.
There you have it: surfin' USA.
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I am a physician practicing Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. This blog chronicles my life first as a medical student, then as a resident. It is about stories of medicine. If you think 'Scrubs' or 'Grey's Anatomy' tells the stories of a resident's life, then here is what it is really like (for one resident, anyway). This blog’s contents conform to HIPAA guidelines. No patient information is released and information that can be used for identification has been changed.
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- Med/Peds doc
- I am a physician board-certified in both Internal Medicine and in Pediatrics. Before becoming a doctor, I was a biochemistry professor, researcher and scientist. I am originally from India but have lived all over the world (born in Nigeria, lived in Nigeria, Liberia, Japan, India, Panama and the United States). I am married and have a 10 year old daughter. I love what I do. I love taking care of sick kids and older people -- the two specialties I am involved with. I am also into research on bacteriophages against Staphylococcus aureus.
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