911 dispatch to sync
911 dispatch to syncope. Upon arrival a young couple tells us that they had been smoking marijuana for the first time, when he got light headed, and had to sit down.
I thought that was the point. AMA form signed.
Love the patients wh
Love the patients who tell you they take “Latex” for fluid and have had “stool in their blood”, and are very put out when you ask them in triage since they have had their stated problem for weeks or months, what made them come in tonight (usually around 3 am).
Female calls the ER
Female calls the ER at about 0600 with a question. She said that she and her boyfriend had sex and now they could not find the condom. She stated that they had “looked everywhere” and wanted to know if she should come to the ER or “wait to pee it out.” After resisting the urge to tell her that if she “peed” it out she had more iasues than we could help her with, I advised her to call her PCP office when they opened and assured her she would be OK until then.
Call came through as
Call came through as male C/O pain and swelling in Left leg below knee ?Fx ankle. O/A Pt found sitting in chair alert. O/E No indication of swelling, Pt stated “Son, son, I think I’ve torn my metric arsehole”.
A famous footballer (soccer player) had recently been in the news with a Metatarsal injury.
An elderly man has r
An elderly man has rectal bleeding and calls his primary to schedule an appt. He doesn’t tell them he’s bleeding profusely. They schedule him for an appt in a month. He decides this is too long of a wait. What do you do with bleeding? Cauterize it. So he jams his wife’s curling iron in his ass and plugs it in. Cooks his innards and passes out on the floor. EMS has to breakdown the door to get to him. Surgery pulled the curling iron out performed an AP resection and the guy lived.
pt came into via EHS
pt came into via EHS c/o “a had a bad dream” The ER doc told him to stop doing drugs…
C/C: "Patient compl
C/C: “Patient complains of one nare bigger than the other. No S.O.B., no pain.”
I was verifying a li
I was verifying a little boy’s identity in triage by asking, “What’s your date of birth?”
He answered, ” May 2nd.” I asked, “What year?” and his answer? “Well, EVERY year, silly!”