One Night, One Emergency Room
It’s a typical unpredictable night at Boston Medical Center’s emergency room: traumas rush in, drunk or high patients need (and refuse) detox, and a high-security prisoner has swallowed four sharpened metal pencil ends.
“If it can happen, we’ll get it,” says Andy Ulrich, a School of Medicine associate professor of emergency medicine and executive vice chairman of the emergency medicine department. “We never know what’s coming. Every day, every minute, every patient is different.”