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I managed to crack a glass on my hand while washing dishes last night. While the bleeding didn't seem to want to stop, I also had no desire to go sit in Emerg for many many hours until someone could apply one stitch, maybe two. Eventually the bleeding did stop, and so on went the bandaid and I went to sleep.
This morning, the wound didn't look like it was healing well, and I had a seminar at the hospital anyway... so I wandered over to the emergency deparment, hospital ID in hand, and to the first person I saw (who looked like they worked there) I said, "Hi! I'm a medical student and I cut myself. Do you have any steri-strips?" The person looked at my hand, shrugged and said "yeah, I guess, okay, hold on..." He returned a moment later with the strips, applied them to my hand and sent me on my way. Now if simply stating that I'm a med student cut out the wait time and got me immediate treatment, I wonder what else it could work for?