Depends where you work - I work at St Joe’s in Stockton, and it’s not unusual to incubate 5 or 6 patients in a shift, though one or two is more usual. Get in to

Depends where you work - I work at St Joe’s in Stockton, and it’s not unusual to incubate 5 or 6 patients in a shift, though one or two is more usual. Get in touch if you’re looking to work in a super underserved community, with ridiculously high acuity! That said, most ED’s are not like that, and an awful lot of emergency medicine is ‘just’ careful assessment and reassurance, so I’d agree that if you don’t like the process of seeing and helping high and low acuity patients, it’s a bad career choice. If anyone wants to chat about the pro’s and con’s of EM and career changing, happy to chat, contact info in profile