Personal Narrative-A Day In The Emergency Room

The dreaded evening lull. That is what emergency room physicians detest, to see a steady, and reliable flow of patients, slow, to a trickle. You can hear the audible click of the clock as the waiting room empties, and as the waiting room quiets, the halls swell with a steady orchestra of monitors, alarms, and chit chat. Myself, well, I could be found in no routine location, no designated cubicle, but rather on a WOW, a workplace on wheels. See, I was an emergency department physician scribe, for what may have been, the four most illuminating years of my life. And during these occasional moments of calm, it was part and parcel for me to glide in and out of rooms - replenishing my mug with all types of K-Cup combinations, some amazing, some destined for the trash bin, or raiding the communal fridge and finding …show more content…
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