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.