Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

[Whts_Ur_Emergency?]

Id have to say my biggest pet peeve is when someone hands you a medicaid card as they pull it from their Louis Vuitton handbag with bling on their hands after having rolled up to the ER in their Mercedes Benz! After that I'd say when someone comes to the ER for a UPT. Dont they know they are available at the dollar store now adays?

[Music in My Heart]

One of the local hospitals has a new billboard: "Zero tolerance for pain."

I want to get a copy on my phone to show to people in the waiting room... there might be a mass stampede for their door.

I had a pseudoseizure pt tonight... I'd forgotten how much they get on my nerves.

[DrLilith]

"Last shift we were getting ready to incubate a bad COPDer..."

I just got the weirdest visual of trying to fit an elderly pink-puffer into a neonatal incubator...lol!

[DrLilith]

"ED nurses that wear t-shirts instead of scrub tops."

What's wrong with the scrub tops? Love'em. It's the scrub bottoms that never fit right on big-bottomed gals like me (and then the pager falls into the toilet on your 30-sec pee break)!

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Love nurses! They're awesome...and underpaid.

[DrLilith]

"status dramaticus event"

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LOVE IT! I am SO stealing this descriptor!!

(Thanks for all the awesome stories, I am an Urgent Care doc so I don't often see the acuity or frank ridiculousness that y'all do, but there certainly is some overlap at times. And thank you, and many apologies, for having to deal with the narcotic/antibiotic/MRI seekers after I tell them NO, Urgent Care is not going to prescribe them what they are demanding because their friend/parent/internet said they must have said treatment/test...Thank the deity I don't have to kowtow to EMTALA for the really absurd requests. And thank you for being there for the folks who really do need you!)