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Hello Otolaryngologists of SDN!
M3 here planning on going into Oto. I was talking to an ENT resident the other day who was telling me that he/she gets slammed on overnight call - foreign bodies, facial trauma, airway issues, the works.
Yesterday, I was stuck in the ED for 3 hours draining 25L of ascitic fluid from someone's belly and started talking to a very friendly ED attending. She told me that in her ED (a busy level-1 trauma center, albeit a community/non-academic hospital) she has only seen ENT come in once overnight. She said she will consult ENT over the phone every few weeks for something but she takes out her own foreign bodies, does her own airway management, and plastics takes facial trauma. She packs her own bleeding noses, etc. etc. Basically most patients with ENT issues are either treated by other providers, or stabilized enough until ENT comes in the morning.
Can anyone comment on this discrepancy? I'm guessing that what both people are telling me (the Oto resident, and the ED attending) are true - the difference is just institution dependent? I'm asking mostly out of curiosity, and also because I do like responding to occasional emergencies. I was kind of bummed to hear from this attending that she rarely sees ENT in the ED overnight.
M3 here planning on going into Oto. I was talking to an ENT resident the other day who was telling me that he/she gets slammed on overnight call - foreign bodies, facial trauma, airway issues, the works.
Yesterday, I was stuck in the ED for 3 hours draining 25L of ascitic fluid from someone's belly and started talking to a very friendly ED attending. She told me that in her ED (a busy level-1 trauma center, albeit a community/non-academic hospital) she has only seen ENT come in once overnight. She said she will consult ENT over the phone every few weeks for something but she takes out her own foreign bodies, does her own airway management, and plastics takes facial trauma. She packs her own bleeding noses, etc. etc. Basically most patients with ENT issues are either treated by other providers, or stabilized enough until ENT comes in the morning.
Can anyone comment on this discrepancy? I'm guessing that what both people are telling me (the Oto resident, and the ED attending) are true - the difference is just institution dependent? I'm asking mostly out of curiosity, and also because I do like responding to occasional emergencies. I was kind of bummed to hear from this attending that she rarely sees ENT in the ED overnight.