A couple of emergency bloggers write about kidney stones, at around the same time. Eerie.
Shadowfax wonders why his hospital’s urgent care center tried a boatload of Demerol first, before going to Toradol. I read a study somewhere that suggested that NSAIDs were just as, if not more, effective than narcotics for pain relief.
WhiteCoat shows us a small 3mm stone, responsible for a big world of hurt.



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