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Category: ER_Staff

So was Triaging the other day - flat out as usual. I look up to see an anxious youn man standing in front of me. I read with slight humour his T-shirt - which said "Let's play carpenter and get Hammered....." Began the triage and got basics from the lad. Chief complaint? 4 inch Nail gun nail through his right thumb and hand..... He was REALLY regretting his fashion choices by the time we finished - have his photo hanging in staff tea room and his Darwinian award application...

#1420 (1) - Apr 24, 2010 02:02 AM by Bitemedwnunda - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (49) - I dunno, seems legit. (26)

I was working triage and we had a guy high on meth come in. We sent him back and about 10 minutes later the charge nurse comes out and asks if we've seen a naked man come out. Meth guy's clothes are folded neatly in his room but no one can find him and we even had security out looking for him. I decide to take a look and walk ALL THE WAY into the patient's room. I find him sitting behind the bed, crouched with his knees to his chest, rocking. Score one, nursing student!

#1413 (0) - Apr 11, 2010 03:42 AM by SuperStudent - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (99) - I dunno, seems legit. (6)

It was long long time ago. Patient presents to county hospital with severe headache while wearing cylinder hat. When triaged and it was his time to be examined, he was found dead with a knife in his head, hidden by cylinder hat. Sounds like he deserved the Darwin award...

#1314 (1) - Feb 26, 2010 11:40 AM by Anonymous - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (67) - I dunno, seems legit. (58)

Inner city patient presents to ER with GSW. When asked about NPO status, he responds that he had McDonalds hamburger after been shot, since "last time you didn't allow me to eat before the surgery".

#1313 (0) - Feb 26, 2010 11:35 AM by Anonymous - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (78) - I dunno, seems legit. (10)

I work for a public ALS EMS district that does 911 calls and emergent transfers. Upon picking a patient up off the hospital floor for a transfer, I had a registered nurse tell me she hadn't given the patient any pain meds in several hours because the patient was allergic to them. Wondering why you'd give them in the first place if she was allergic to them, I requested she describe allergy. "Well I gave her 2mg of Haldol and 2mg of Morphine @1230 and she developed an altered mental status!"

#1247 (0) - Feb 7, 2010 02:12 AM by Retard Nurses - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (101) - I dunno, seems legit. (9)

On rescue squad's write up of pt hx: "pt had a vowel replaced in his heart", now which vowel was it, "E" or "A"?

#1210 (0) - Feb 4, 2010 04:08 PM by Anonymous - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (83) - I dunno, seems legit. (16)

At school I broke into awful hives I went to the Health Center at my University where a Dr told me I had eaten something and it was just an allergic reaction, take some benedryl it would go away. 4 miserable days later I went to the ER where I was told I was on crystal meth and people on crystal meth think bugs are crawling on them and itch (I don't do drugs), they gave me the # 4 rehab . When I finally found a competent doctor they diagnosed me with Scabies. Gross but uh NOT allergies or METH.

#1097 (0) - Dec 27, 2009 03:44 PM by Anonymous - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (101) - I dunno, seems legit. (60)

While giving report on a patient they just brought in a paramedic states that "the patient has no past history of suicides."

#1078 (0) - Dec 17, 2009 05:43 PM by Anonymous - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (74) - I dunno, seems legit. (35)

A friend of mine was on her first day of ER orientation as a Tech. She failed to eat breakfast or drink anything. While watching a procedure she walked out of the room and passed out in the hallway. She got backboarded, C-spined, and a CT, then sent home. All the while being given a hard time by the ER staff for passing out during her first day working in the ER. This is why you make sure to eat and drink during a 12 hour shift!

#1051 (0) - Dec 9, 2009 10:55 AM by Anonymous - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (56) - I dunno, seems legit. (24)

One of the doctors at work once gave a student a urine specimen to test. She dipped it and it showed very very large glucose. The doctor then opened the lid of the jar and drank the contents. It was apple juice

#996 (2) - Nov 24, 2009 12:27 PM by lol - ER_Staff - Get back to the waiting room (14) - I dunno, seems legit. (145)


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