I'm a home health nurse and I'm on call this week. I just got a phone call from a lab to report a critical lab level on a patient. A patient that has been dead for three months!
I said, there must be some mistake, this patient has been dead for several months. She said, no, it can't be, he is a 71 yr. old male, gave me his address and social security number. The lab was drawn today, she said.
I told her, I'm sorry, it has to be a mistake, I remember when this patient died.
She says (kind of in a snotty way) "so you are refusing to take the lab result..." I said no, I wasn't, but the lab result couldn't be from this patient. I asked her what the lab was for (just out of curiosity, it was kind of a strange moment) and she said she couldn't give me lab results on a patient I refused to acknowledge.
I'm starting to wonder if this is some kind of sick Halloween joke. I called my boss and she said she would find out what was going on but I could tell she was really perplexed as well. I can't believe it was a joke, why would they lie?
I don't really believe in ghosts and all that paranormal stuff, but
