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Lessons Learned From A Career in
Emergency Medicine
Amal Mattu, MD, FAAEM, FACEPProfessor and Vice Chair
Department of Emergency MedicineUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Lessons Learned From A Career in
Emergency Medicine
Lessons Learned From A Career in EM
Amal Mattu, MD, FAAEM, FACEPProfessor and Vice Chair
Department of Emergency MedicineUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine
Amal Mattu, MD, FAAEM, FACEPProfessor and Vice Chair
Department of Emergency MedicineUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine
Lessons Learned From A Career in EM
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
The Princess Bride vs. EM
• Fencing stabbings• Fighting …fighting• Torture fingers and tubes in every orifice• Revenge fibromyalgia, dizzy,
percocetopenia• Giants morbid obesity• Monsters neurosurgeons, orthopods• Chases finding admission beds• Escapes pts. leaving without being seen• (True?) love chlamydia, GC, trichomonas• Miracles bringing back the mostly-dead
Princess Bride Truisms
Princess Bride Truisms
• Death cannot stop true love…all it can do is delay it for a while
Princess Bride Truisms
• Never get involved in a land war in Asia
Princess Bride Truisms
• Inconcievable!!
Princess Bride Truisms
• There’s not a lot of money in revenge
Princess Bride Truisms
• People in masks cannot be trusted
Princess Bride Truisms
• People in masks cannot be trusted
Princess Bride Truisms
• Don’t mock people’s pain
Princess Bride Truisms
• Chocolate coating makes it go down easier
My Favorite Princess Bride Life Lessons For a
Career in Emergency Medicine
“He’s only mostly dead. Mostly dead is still partly
alive!”
Find the positives, be an optimist!
“Be a Tigger, not an Eeyore.”-- Randy Pausch(1960 – 2008)
Find the positives, be an optimist!
“Mine for gold, not dirt.”-- Dale Carnegie (?)(1888 – 1955)
Prepare to face the 6-fingered man
Prepare for the future…now!
Prepare for the future…now!
Prepare for the future…now!
Prepare for the future…now!
Prepare for the future…now!
Develop a resistance to iocaine powder
Develop a resistance to iocaine powder
“Who says life is fair? Where is that written?”
“Who says life is fair? Where is that written?”
“If you spend your time comparing yourself to others you will become vain or bitter, for there will always be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
–Desiderata
Beware the 3 hazards of The Fire Swamp
The 3 hazards of The Fire Swamp
The Flame Spurt
“How far you go in lifeDepends on you beingTender with the young,Compassionate with the aged,Sympathetic with the striving,And tolerant of the weak and strongBecause someday in life… You will have been all of these.”-- George Washington Carver(1864 – 1943)
Lightning Sand
Lightning Sand
Lightning Sand
• Mr. Miyagi: “Either karate do, or karate do not. Karate do half-way get squished like grape.”
Lightning Sand
• Mr. Miyagi: “Either karate do, or karate do not. Karate do half-way get squished like grape.”
• “Emergency medicine, same way!”
ROUS’s
ROUS’s
Boo! Boo! Boooo!“You had love in your hands, and you gave it up. You treated it like
garbage!”
Treat those you love well, and don’t let go
Treat those you love well, and don’t let go
You are making a difference!
You are making a difference!
You are making a difference!
You are making a difference!
You are making a difference!
Thanks for all you do!
amalmattu@comcast.net
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