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

Specialties Emergency Nursing Q/A

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/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

hey I sunburn and mine are very bad so bad they blister and turn into 2nd degree burns and it doesnt matter how much sun block I put on I still burn baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad! I have had to go to er but by private vehicle and usually get a tetnus, IV antibiotics, benadryl and decadron for the itching shots mind you. and generally have to be wrapped in silvadene and have pain meds.

Specializes in ER, PACU, CORRECTIONAL HEALTH, FLIGHT.

three patients come immediately to mind......

1) chapped lips x 3 days

2) self-circumcision

3) cant find "hood ring" (referring to female genitalia ornament)

oh and also........

sunburn from tanning bed (called 911 and came via EMS)

Hmmm, I'm surprised no one has mentioned these yet:

Stubbed toe

burning eyes from chopping onions

paper cut

hoorifice voice from too much yelling

canker sore (mouth ulcer)

cellulite

cut while shaving

thumb sucking

toilet training

splinter

Blackheads

A pierced earlobe ripped through when caught by a hairbrush (15 years earlier!)

Tattoo removal (on Christmas Day, of course)

"I think I have dandruff, I need an antibiotic."

The guy w/ a fireplace poker up his rear. Said he was laying carpet and backed into it. (yeah, right!)

The guy who brought BOTH of his girlfriends in in labor, at the same time (live dangerously, die young!). That was the first they knew of each other.

The guy who needed his acne cleared up 'today' because he was going to be a rock star 'tomorrow'. (This one was really sad; he was delusional, but you can't admit somebody for thinking they are going to be a rock star - by the end of that week, he had shot 2 people, one of whom he had taken hostage and then killed himself)

Savvy

A woman stated she sat on a prescription bottle and it happened to become lodged in her rectum!

Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.

She could always say that she accidentally swallowed it and it got stuck on the way out.

We had one at 5:30 in the morning who came in because their "cock ring" got lost in the lady parts. She wanted the doc to get it out.

Specializes in home & public health, med-surg, hospice.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! :lol2:

Tell em all yeah it was probably from that - thank god you gave up the bottle of olive oil, the car battery and the duct tape before he really got hurt!

I know, right?!! Funny how your perspective changes...lol, @ 21-22 y/o I was so embarrassed. Now, @ 35, I'd be so proud...:lol2:

We have patients who call EMS to bring them to the ER for a bogus complaint..then get inside the ER proper...refuse to be seen.... and then walk to the supermarket next door...they just needed a ride

And then want a ride back home. "Aw, come on, man! Waddya mean I can't get no ride home? You brought me here! I don't got no cab money. I know my rights!"

Savvy

Oh, and then there was the patient wanted to know it he had 'roaches of the liver' (cirrhosis) because if he did, it was too late to stop drinking, and if he didn't, why stop?

Savvy

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

Last night I triaged 5 people in a row all c/o SOB, numbness tingling, carpal spasms,O2 sats all at 100 no surprise, also with a positive RMS. Their families were all hysterical about them having possible MIs and CVAs. They were aged 15 to 19. Bad enough they were all hyperventilating, but why in hades would their parents even begin to think they were having MIs and CVAs. Iwas sympathetic with the first 2 then it just kind of wore me down and then I wanted to, but didnt, slap them all sillier than what they were beahving. The patient and their Families.

Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

We had a guy one night who came in by ambulance for c/o a sore throat.

It went like this:

EMS: Barnes, Barnes this is St.Louis county EMS 4

Me: Go ahead EMS 4

EMS: Yes barnes we have a 26 y/o male with a c/o sore throat no other complaints at this time, we could not get you on the line 8 minutes ago so we called such and such dumbass community hospital who ordered us to start an IV and give 25 of demerol, his vitals currently are 130/60, p-80, o2 sat 100%, Temp- 99.1 F, R-14

Me: ok, whats ur current eta (while im rolling my eyes and wondering why in the hell the family practice doctor at such and such dumbass community hospital would order an IV of NS and Demerol for a sore throat.):angryfire :nono:

EMS: about 4 min barnes

Me: ok ems 4 ( while the whole er staff is in the background dying laughing half of them on the floor:lol2: )

Then they get him there I felt like slapping him but didnt, anyways he gets mad and wants a stretcher room because I put him in the ent room in the dentist chair, then he wants a hot meal and me to authorize ems to take him back home.:madface:

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