{"id":296,"date":"2009-05-09T05:27:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T05:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=296"},"modified":"2009-05-09T05:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T05:27:01","slug":"echoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/05\/09\/echoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/dollhouse\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-594\" title=\"2009.05.08\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009.05.08.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>My first shift in the Emergency Room, and people were piling in asking to be ruled out for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/h1n1flu\/\">swine flu<\/a> &#8211; which pretty much includes anyone with a fever and cough. It&#8217;s amazing how the media can really affect the direction of healthcare. Fortunately, emergency medicine does offer more variety than my last rotation on cardiology, where I spent the month ordering the same three tests: EKG, stress test, and echo. Speaking of echoes, we&#8217;re sad that our new TV addiction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/dollhouse\">Dollhouse<\/a>, has come to an end. Featuring the visually-titillating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0244630\/\">Eliza Dushku<\/a>, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0923736\/\">Joss Whedon<\/a> series about programmable people who&#8217;ll submit to our every desire, has kept us glued to the screen. Sadly, even our other favorite Fox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/terminator\/\">show<\/a> has been terminated for the forseeable future. At least we&#8217;ll finally have time to actually get some work done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first shift in the Emergency Room, and people were piling in asking to be ruled out for swine flu &#8211; which pretty much includes anyone with a fever and cough. It&#8217;s amazing how the media can really affect the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/05\/09\/echoes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}