Last Call!

For alcohol!

Just kidding, of course. Last call in the MICU for yours truly. The "Last Call! For Alcohol!" is of course a tribute to George Thorogood & the Destroyer's memorable song "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer", a song which also contains the pithy lyrics: "you know when your mouth's a-getting dry.... you're plenty high."

Crazy Saturday night so far with an unusually high number of admits (in keeping with my "black cloud" this month.) Six admits in total, a veritable smorgasbord of human disease: we've got a GI bleeder, a community-acquired pneumonia with increased oxygen requirements, a guy with esophageal cancer and bowel obstruction, a diabetic who stopped taking her insulin, a woman with a history of a bilateral lung transplant with difficulty breathing and a CNS lymphoma with sepsis. The worrisome thing is that it's not even midnight...