Nonsense "stat" orders

I don't understand why some residents feel the need to write a bunch of "stat" orders while the patient is in the ED. Now, I know I'm not a super-smart resident who went to medical school, but sometimes tells me that the urine drug screen on the 90 year old here because she fell and broke her arm should not be "stat". Why does a routine patient need "stat" Crestor at 11 in the morning? Seriously? Does anyone else have this problem or is it just my hospital? Oh, and I don't understand why every patient who goes to the ICU, regardless of the reason, needs a stat head CT and stat chest CT with IV contrast...