What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

And did you have to treat them?

I am just curious. Your stories always seem to either crack me up or shake my head in amazement.

Thanks for sharing ?

Specializes in ER.
JonathanClouse said:

I often have to wonder about the "wedmd syndrome". I started having nausea, a headache, and chest pains earlier this week, and you know, when you go and enter those things into the Webmd website, it always gives you the worst possible determination of what it could be. So I took local public transportation to a downtown street corner, then walked about a half mile to the ED.... I didn't want to bother the squad if it wasn't an emergency.

Well, cardiac enzymes all normal, chest x-ray normal, ekg was normal, and ccta was practically perfect. Then today, I was looking through info on GERD, and OMG, everything I have been dealing with was listed on the page. Guess I'll have to ask family doctor to increase my Omeprezol. Still, sort of embarrassing for me to have freaked like I did.

I want to shame you for doing that when you suspected a heart attack, but... Last Summer I tried to bring the raft in, and lifted a 100lb anchor, but couldn't get it over the side, just up to the edge. I got a sudden sharp head splitting headache, with dizziness and nausea, had to drop the anchor, and sit on the raft for a few minutes, because I didn't think I could swim in. Gradually got better over the next 2 h then when I could finally get off the bed started googling and came upon something called a sentinel bleed. I couldnt think of anyone that would say to just stay home so I went in to the ER, but I drove in (one hour). Stupid, stupid, stupid. CT was normal, but if they talked about me afterwards, I deserve it.

Too many dumb reasons but I've had multiple patients come in for gout flare up and it's always cause of something they did, either they stopped taking their prescribed meds or decided to hear a bunch of food they can't eat.... Like my man, your toe hurting isn't an emergency especially when you did it to yourself.... Even had a gout patient call 911 and come via ambulance, SMDH. 

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