What would you say you do here?
…During a mundane graveyard shift, our team was rushed back into a stabilization room to find blood-drenched paramedics and a patient with penetrating neck trauma that visually exposed all deep anterior neck structures. Despite the chaos of nurses frantically taking vitals, technicians holding pressure on the patient’s pulsating carotid and the pharmacist briskly preparing medications, the physician – composed and aware of all, diligently examined the patient and called out orders acting as the team leader. With the extent of the patient’s injuries and almost total blood loss, I recall thinking to myself in that moment that there is no way the patient would make it through this. Following a period of resuscitation, however, something extraordinary happened: the patient, miraculously, pulled through.
Before I was recording resuscitations and lifesaving procedures as an EPPA medical scribe, I was an eager recent college-grad looking to further my knowledge and medical experience. I quickly learned that being a scribe is a great deal more than simply creating charts in the Electronic Medical Record. Not only are you allowing providers to focus more on their patient’s instead of documentation, you are reducing physician burnout, allowing more patient’s to be seen at once and gaining invaluable clinical experience whilst being exposed to all fields of medicine. Being a medical scribe has allowed me to grow into a cultivated future medical professional able to confidently review and understand EKG’s, advanced imaging and laboratory data. I would strongly recommend scribe experience to anyone planning on pursuing a medical career.”
Sameyah Khan, Current EPPA Scribe