- “Any anomaly in your trauma patient is due to trauma, no matter how unlikely it may seem.”
- “Your trauma patient is bleeding to death until you prove otherwise. “
- “The only place an unstable trauma patient can go is to the OR.”
- “Even awake, alert, and stable patients die. And it hurts that much more when they do.”
- “A previously healthy child who is in arrest, or nearly so, is a victim of child abuse until proven otherwise.”
- “Always look at the image yourself.”
- “Your patient is at their healthiest as they roll in through the emergency department door”
- “Read the entire paper!”
- “Question everything!”