{"id":22590,"date":"2025-02-21T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22590"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:30:02","slug":"what-e-r-doctors-wish-youd-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22590","title":{"rendered":"What E.R. Doctors Wish You\u2019d Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We asked emergency physicians what lessons they\u2019d learned from their job.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s pretty hard to shock an emergency physician. \u201cWe see the worst of the worst, and the silliest of the silliest,\u201d Abdullah Pratt, an emergency medicine physician at the University of Chicago Medicine, told me recently.<\/p>\n

I was chatting with him about the situations he\u2019d witnessed in the E.R., specifically the ones that made him change his own behavior. To start, he told me, he would never wear Crocs when it\u2019s snowy or icy outside.<\/p>\n

I sheepishly confessed that, just the night before, I\u2019d slipped on a pair and traversed my frozen driveway to take out the trash.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo way,\u201d Dr. Pratt said. \u201cPlease don\u2019t tell me you broke your ankle.\u201d<\/p>\n

In winter, he sees \u201cCroc-specific injuries\u201d once a week. The shoes \u201cdon\u2019t provide traction, and they don\u2019t provide any ankle support,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople go flying, and so do their Crocs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Pratt isn\u2019t willing to risk an injury for a quick errand \u2014 and, after talking to him, neither am I.<\/p>\n

Read on for more lessons Dr. Pratt and other emergency room doctors learned \u2014 and want you to remember \u2014 after years in the E.R.<\/p>\n

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We asked emergency physicians what lessons they\u2019d learned from their job.It\u2019s pretty hard to shock an emergency physician. \u201cWe see the worst of the worst, and the silliest of the silliest,\u201d Abdullah Pratt, an emergency medicine physician at the University of Chicago Medicine, told me recently.I was chatting with him about the situations he\u2019d witnessed in the E.R., specifically the ones that made him change his own behavior. To start, he told me, he would never wear Crocs when it\u2019s snowy or icy outside.I sheepishly confessed that, just the night before, I\u2019d slipped on a pair and traversed my frozen driveway to take out the trash.\u201cNo way,\u201d Dr. Pratt said. \u201cPlease don\u2019t tell me you broke your ankle.\u201dIn winter, he sees \u201cCroc-specific injuries\u201d once a week. The shoes \u201cdon\u2019t provide traction, and they don\u2019t provide any ankle support,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople go flying, and so do their Crocs.\u201dDr. Pratt isn\u2019t willing to risk an injury for a quick errand \u2014 and, after talking to him, neither am I.Read on for more lessons Dr. Pratt and other emergency room doctors learned \u2014 and want you to remember \u2014 after years in the E.R.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22592,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22593,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590\/revisions\/22593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}