Funny Doctor Situations

[Ubernurse]

:heartbeat I feel I'm a pretty funny person so why let it stop when a doctor who intimidates me comes around. Just the other day I told a doctor his patient's INR was 100, he giggled. I think my favorite joke to a doctor was when he was looking for an x-ray and ultrasound result from another hospital. I couldn't find the documentated paperwork, but wait! I realized that the other facility transferred the films over. The 24inch by 24inch films. I walked the big films over to him and said, "here they are doctor. I forgot that I put them in my back pocket". He looked at me confused...but at least I thought it was funny.:heartbeat

Do you have any funny doctor stories?

[fronkey bean]

I had a neurologist come to evaluate a pt w/ new onset facial twitching. He walked in the room and got very agitated b/c she had "all over body twitching". Calmly I asked him to wait just a moment for me to turn off the Clinitron bed (it sends pulses of air through sand to take pressure off bedsores). The "body twitching" stopped when the bed stopped pulsing:uhoh3: and the doc walked out and ordered some ativan for the pt. came back in a few min. after the ativan (bed was still off) and said "This is much better. See, she is just twitching in the face now" Riiiiiight Dr. Notaclue!

[countrylane123]

there was this new intern, and he decided he would help out and get a temperature, he was puzzled why he couldnt get it so i went with him to see what was going on. it was a digital ear thermometer and he had it in the pt;s mouth . of course i told him that wasn't right. i know he got embarressed, but he had to learn. alot of them havent even dealt with this stuff.it was funny, but i also felt sorry for the guy.

[48RVRN]

I assisted one of our really great but totaly ADD ED docs with a pelvic. He finished, patted the woman briskly on the knee and said "Well, you look good down there." The patient and I locked eyes. Of course we both lost it. We were laughing so hard we were both crying! "No! No! I mean the exam looked good!" Said the red-faced doctor. We howled!

[fronkey bean]

I assisted one of our really great but totaly ADD ED docs with a pelvic. He finished, patted the woman briskly on the knee and said "Well, you look good down there." The patient and I locked eyes. Of course we both lost it. We were laughing so hard we were both crying! "No! No! I mean the exam looked good!" Said the red-faced doctor. We howled!

I had a similar experience when I worked a cardiac unit. One of the cardiologists was checking a woman's goin site before discharging her and said "beautiful" when he lifted up the sheet. After he left the room the pt and I laughed until we cried.

[nursekathi]

I worked with a Lebanese doctor who was very extremely arrogant, and also quite defensive about cultural issues, very defensive. His coloring was dark, and he had a good bit of an accent. One day he went into a room to see an adolescent, who was a teriffic clown. The boy leaped under his bed, hands over his head, and screamed like a girl, "Please Osama, Please, don't kill me!" The doctor quietly left the unit and couldn't see any more patients for hours. I felt bad, but I couldn't help hiding and laughing my ### off.

[BriBriRN]

We were working a code on my Tele unit, ofcorse there were the usual million people in the room. The Resident doing compressions was getting pretty tired. I was going to step in to take over, when the other Resident running the code spoke up. She looked around the room and said "Does anyone else know how to do CPR?" We all kind of looked @ eachother and I smiled and raised my hand. I still laugh every time I see her....lol

[48RVRN]

We were working a code on my Tele unit, ofcorse there were the usual million people in the room. The Resident doing compressions was getting pretty tired. I was going to step in to take over, when the other Resident running the code spoke up. She looked around the room and said "Does anyone else know how to do CPR?" We all kind of looked @ eachother and I smiled and raised my hand. I still laugh every time I see her....lol

LOL!!! OMG what was she thinking???

[NicoleERRN, RN]

Attending doc, managed to get the secretarys shoe away from her (she slipped it off at her desk) No one could find it for about 10 mins and he denies the whole thing and then someone yells

"who put a shoe in the tube system" it was sitting in one of the tubes ready to go on a trip! ROARING LAUGHTER !!!! i had tears in my eyes. !! :rotfl:

[psalm, RN]

I assisted one of our really great but totaly ADD ED docs with a pelvic. He finished, patted the woman briskly on the knee and said "Well, you look good down there." The patient and I locked eyes. Of course we both lost it. We were laughing so hard we were both crying! "No! No! I mean the exam looked good!" Said the red-faced doctor. We howled!

...thanks for the laugh!

[traumajunkiegirl]

A doc decided to "help" put in a foley once. So after he gets his gloves on he picks up the green plastic cotton ball tweezers used to prep with betadine. But instead of using them for the cotton balls, he uses the tweezers to hold this poor pt's member....no one said a word....but we had a good laugh after he left. They are now known as member holders

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

A doc decided to "help" put in a foley once. So after he gets his gloves on he picks up the green plastic cotton ball tweezers used to prep with betadine. But instead of using them for the cotton balls, he uses the tweezers to hold this poor pt's member....no one said a word....but we had a good laugh after he left. They are now known as member holders

Hopefully, this bright one wasn't a urologist!! Hey, at least he tried....

I did work with an internist who had absolutely no idea what an I&O hat was. We told him it was a hat, to put it on, and would you believe he almost did.....