Seriously?!?!

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Time for another vent thread. Today's topic is: "You're here for what? Seriously!?!?!"

32y/o m, hx htn, vs wnl, cc is "chest pain for about 1 second 4 hours ago", no current complaints.

Crossed my mind to give him a forearm shiver. Then he'd have something to complain about...

Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

to clarify- What is required is a medical Screening Exam, in order to determine whether an emergency exists. There is no law requiring a work up for every complaint.

Very few places screen and dismiss pt's.

Why don't they screen and dismiss non emergency patients? Or refer to pcp? There must be a financial or some other incentive to treat..

Specializes in Med/surg, Quality & Risk.
When I worked as a front desk tech at the ER --)

lady comes in with her nine (literally) kids, plus her sister and her sister's four kids. Wants EVERYONE to be seen.

Because they had all been to a picnic two weeks ago with her brother, who was dx'd as having MRSA in a wound a week later. Absolutely no s/s of anything in anyone. Even had the NP come out to educate all fifteen of them on the s/s of MRSA infection, etc. No go. AND she wanted everyone to be seen by a doctor, insistent about just "wanting to be checked out."

Please tell me no one entertained this silliness.

Specializes in Med/surg, Quality & Risk.
to clarify- What is required is a medical Screening Exam, in order to determine whether an emergency exists. There is no law requiring a work up for every complaint.

Very few places screen and dismiss pt's.

And that's the problem. They're terrified if they don't do a full workup on every silly complaint that they'll miss a festering infection that goes septic, or the guy that has a completely unrelated complaint has an MI 4 days later and his family sues, etc. The unjustified lawsuits need to stop.

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Why don't they screen and dismiss non emergency patients? Or refer to pcp? There must be a financial or some other incentive to treat..
Yes it's called being sued. If the million dollar work isn't done and they drop dead in the parking lot.....guess who gets sued. The doctors and the nurses.

But this is a light hearted thread about the ridiculous things patient come to the ED for.....lets leavethe politics for the breakroom!

Specializes in Public Health, L&D, NICU.
I don't know about where you are, but the Target crowd here is just as nasty as the Walmart crowd.

I'm in a college town. You encounter a lot of the sorostitutes with the "OH my Gawd" voices, but since we also have Walmart and Kmart, the People of Walmart types tend to gravitate there and away from Target. And I would rather have to stand in line listening to what's happening during Rush. In Walmart you get to overhear stuff about who the daddy is, how the court case is going, and how to pass a pee test.

Thank you monkeybug for the explanation. I totally get it now, too funny.

You can't cure stupid but you can sedate it!!!!

One time this guy came in before his shift to get a rabies vaccine and immunoglobulin. According to the DOH, a feral cat that bites you might have rabies, and the ER is the only one who has rabies vaccine and Ig

That guy was this guy

(No I didn't harass it, it walked over to me [im a dog person], I pet it gently on the head, then it turned and bit my hand- drew blood)

(couldn't find the cat to determine if it had rabies after that, so rabies vacc and IG was purely prophylactic, better to be safe than dead)

Yes I was put on fast track and then worked my 8 hour shift

Yes getting an immunoglobulin shot at the site (meaty part of palm) hurts, a lot.

9 shots in two days, I learned my lesson!

I lasted 30 days in the ED. I couldn't wrap my mind around some of the complaints.

Patient:"I think I'm having an allergic reaction, to a medication".

Me: " When did you last take the medicine"?

Patient: "Seven years ago when I had my son".

Me: Stood there with mouth open.

Hahahaha do we work together?????

These things happen allllllllll the time and I just laugh!

My last good one was

15yo boy no previous med hex, mother swears he stopped breathing and had to give him mouth to mouth in the car, boy presents with no s/s, completely a/ox4 , and TEXTING, after I confiscated his phone . I am think ok ok don't be the mean nurse try and take them serious and give BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT that SOMETHING happened so get a line get him on the monitors, check his fsbs........mom says oh my god you know he had his braces tightened last week!!!!! That's got to be why this happened, get the dr NOW and lets take his braces off!!!!

I LOVE my job, I just smiled and giggled as I walked away( under my mask of course)

"Sore toenail". I kid you not. Oy!

Do other hospitals not do health screenings for non-urgent issues? In my ER if someone comes in as a level 4 or 5, our ER docs screen and can ask them to pay 150$ up front for treatment or they can leave.

Do other hospitals not do health screenings for non-urgent issues? In my ER if someone comes in as a level 4 or 5 our ER docs screen and can ask them to pay 150$ up front for treatment or they can leave.[/quote']

That's amazing

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