And to get ready to discharge
The patient with the facial laceration
And dementia who’s wife
Can’t really help him walk or eat
And to hear the radio call for a
Precipitous delivery and a baby not breathing.
And to see the tiny lungs
Take a few syndromic breaths
And end up blue in the arms of a mother
Covered in blood and afterbirth
And on a facetime with an incarcerated father
Who couldn’t be there…for reasons.
And then to see normal vital signs
On the college student with a cold
And out of state parents requesting that
He be tested for everything
And who say that all the testing
At the urgent care was inadequate.
And then to find a takedown request
From AI censors alleging spam
And un-postable material in the videos
Uploaded to encourage interest
And licensing of an invention patented
To provide a way out of this burned out department.
Yes YouTube, I would like to appeal.
Ryan Richman MD is an Emergency Medicine physician in Cooperstown, New York.
