Having a celebrity as a patient

amygarside · Jun 25, 2013

this is a very interesting topic. it deserves to be on the first page again..

psullivan95 · Jun 30, 2013

Reagrdless of who you care for...I want that patient leaving and saying...do you know the nurse that took care of me is AMAZING and everyone needs to know about HER!!!!!

Best...answer....ever

MedChica · Jun 30, 2013

One but it was a non-nursing capacity.

I've had a fair amount of high-profile 4-star military pt's and they were the coolest guys ever. Those with the highest rank usually are. One 4-star general up and left his escort behind and was just waltzing up and down the facility. We rec'vd a heads up but we were expecting him at a certain time. This guy just walked in, like, 'Hey - what's up!" and presented' himself at the front-desk for his exam. I took him back...and was thinking to myself.

Like, "Oh, My God - that's a whole lotta BRASS! Dude - you, like, freakin' commanded *insert your well-known war*. I saw you on CSPAN. You were on Capitol Hill and everything!"

I wish that I could tell you guys who he was but he was very down to earth. Very nice man.

I hope that I never have to deal with actual celebrity VIPs, though. Only once did I have a taste of that. Came to radiology. We had a room 'reserved' for her...which was ridiculous. That's like 'reserving' a bed/room in the emergency room. Where are the real emergencies going to be placed -- the floor?

Anyway, we had 'her' room set up and her 'routine' films were taking priority over the STATs coming down from the clinics. Seriously.

All the while I kept praying that the ER would send over a pt of the 'MVA variety' so we could boot her out of that room.

It wasn't the celeb. She was 'nice'. It was the way that the hospital/our dept approached the situation. I hated - with the fire of a thousand suns - the way that the hospital tripped all over itself trying to spread out the red carpet. It's not right. A pt is a pt, to me.

amygarside · Jul 1, 2013

"We had a room 'reserved' for her...which was ridiculous. That's like 'reserving' a bed/room in the emergency room. Where are the real emergencies going to be placed -- the floor?"

hahaha this is the first time i heard such a "reservation"..

2011_RN · Jul 18, 2013

A nurse I know took care of Bernie macs daughter years ago. She said he was really nice and brought breakfast for the staff.

amygarside · Jul 25, 2013

anyone here who has helped with the royal baby's delivery?

dansamy · Jul 25, 2013

I always get stuck with our local VIPs. Doctors, their families, local car dealer owners (luxury cars - like the Porsche dealer owner who sold ALL the county doctors their cars), OLD Mobile money families (like buildings & streets named after them).

aTOMicTom · Aug 21, 2013

There was a certain country music star (who recently died) I was aware of; back around 1990, he was in a special suite which the hospital had just created to woo just such a clientele... what's interesting to me was the order for whiskey neat... the pharmacy kept a bottle of Jim Beam in the cooler to hold off the DTs.

On a related note; once I saw (at a really rural country hospital) what looked suspiciously like a pt drinking a urine specimen; turned out her doc had prescribed white wine to increase appetite.