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Originally Posted by surftheiop
chief of surgery and the most oldschool grizzled EM attending probably arm wrestled for it
Haha well unless they had a serious heads up, which they probably didnt, no way the trauma attending beats the surgery resident to it, and if its ME, my hand is in that chest before my attending makes it to the ED. Our ER attendings would have no idea what to do with a scalpel so thats a non-issue, and I'd think very few EM attendings are comfortable cracking a chest. What hospital was this at?