We responded to the
We responded to the local no-tell motel, and found a couple whose age was in question, looking very nervous as the police question them. The call is a possible seizure, and as we hear the complaint from the male party, they were “becoming intimate, when she suddenly lost all muscle control and began to shake violently on the bed.” One of the cops pats the kid on the shoulder and said, “Hell, son, you just did it right.” Best part, they were underage, and had to wait for their parents.
So, we get a call fo
So, we get a call for “patient not feeling well,” and arrive to find a patient insisting on transportation to the medical clinic that shares a parking lot with the local mall. Patient has vague, general complaints, and demands, “just take me to the hospital!” We comply, and when the patient is delivered to the ER, she immediately… walks out of the truck, and heads into the mall, ignoring multiple attempts to redirect her. Well, jokes on her–she was arrested for a false call.
When the fire alarm
When the fire alarm sounds off at 2.10 am in the morning, it’s nice to know that patients have their priorities straight when several of them ask about going to the bathroom instead of if we can help them out.
my 10 year old son h
my 10 year old son had been complaining about pain in his right shoulder area. i made an appointment, and when we finally got into the doctor’s room, the doctor asked my son what was wrong.
my son put his right arm behind his back, wrenched it up until his hand was at his neck, and said “it hurts when i do this”
kudos to my doctor who managed to keep a perfectly straight face as he replied “then don’t do that”.
my son said “okay” and we left, me embarrassed as hell.
18yr old pt came in
18yr old pt came in w/ father. Dx: fx requiring ORIF. He consented to surgery and was taken up to the OR quite quickly. About 30 min later we hear a racket in the ER, screaming, crying, yelling, banging the walls. Turns out it’s the patients mother, not agreeing to her son being operated on, even though he is of legal age and quite able to decide for himself. When we’re not immediately trying to stop the surgeon from fixing her child, she falls to the floor and continues her loud objections.
Three pts were broug
Three pts were brought in: one w/ meleana, taking a dump (Oh, the odours!), another one just two beds down the line, w/ diarrhea plopping mighty plops of doom, and in between I had to see my pt: married straight guy who contracted HIV and had no idea how (‘probably a toilet seat’, as if that would fool any healthcare pro). That day I cursed curtains, why no actual walls? (much has changed since)
This is actually qui
This is actually quite sad. A while ago we had a pt brought in after being resuscitated after cardiac arrest. His heart was now doing kind of ok, but he was still unresponsive. The ironic thing is that it turned out he was the driver of a hearse and he’d had an arrest at a funeral. Don’t think he made it out the hospital alive.
Chief complaint: "
Chief complaint: “I am a nursing assistant. I took a bath in Pine Sol a few days ago to get the germs off, and I’ve been having vaginal irritation ever since.”