Naphthali

Naphthali, originally uploaded by mattcotham.

One of the pleasures of working here is the chance to get to know a few

of your patients a little better. At home, in the ER, you maybe get to

spend a few hours with someone, usually at a pretty traumatic time;

here we have some kids who are in traction for 6 weeks since we don't

really have the capability to do internal fixation of long bone

fractures. So Napthali has been hanging out with us for the past month

-- his time is up on Monday, and he looks like he'll be fine. We have a

variety of things to help keep the kids at least a little entertained,

but nothing beats having your picture taken.