We've all heard weird, wild and even ludicrous things slip out of a doctor's mouth! Provide your quote for this National Nurses Week contest and you'll be entered to win a $250 amazon.com gift card!
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UPDATE May 19, 2017:
The winner of the 2017 National Nurses Week Doctors Say The Darnedest Things giveaway is user Racer15 who said:
I had a pt brought by EMS for altered mental status. ER doc is talking to the pt asking her what meds she takes. Starts listing them off and then says "and something to help with my memory, umm, it's called, umm..". Doc looks at her and says "well it's obviously not working", turns around and walks out
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Had a patient with a possible MI, called for a rapid assessment team, several interns show up and start asking each other what should we do? Me and another nurse state how about some stat cardiac labs and an ekg? They say yeah that sounds good we'll put them in.. then they all disappear!! We had to call supervisors to get patient to higher care!!!
"I know my penmanship is nothing compared to your Judy's font... Now, what do you want me to order? Is that enough?... Thanks for taking care of our patients and making them look great like your writing."
A patient had an elevated BP at 2339. We called the resident on call because we realized no one ordered the patients home medication so he had not had any of his BP meds for the day. The resident informs me that I should give a one time dose of Labetalol and the home meds are a daylight problem!!!!!
I was caring for a patient with GI problems and the patient was telling me they were very hungry but was NPO. So I told the patient to tell the doc. Be aware this is pediatrics - so that patient asks the doc if they can have some Mike and Ike's. The doc turns around and writes an order for 1 Mike and Ike every 2 hours. I was like oh gosh how am I going to regulate that!
Specializes in Psych, Peds, Education, Infection Control.
Another favorite I just remembered. A patient had inserted a foreign object into a particularly sensitive area...and I don't know if it was lady business or just students being students or the fact that it was an adolescent patient, but I was having a good ol' time listening to four medical students doing everything in their power not to actually name the part in question. "Private area"..."lady parts"...every non-vulgar (and thankfully non-childish) euphemism... Finally, the internal medicine doctor who's working with them just sighs, looks at them, and says, "It's called a lady parts, guys."
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Had a patient with a possible MI, called for a rapid assessment team, several interns show up and start asking each other what should we do? Me and another nurse state how about some stat cardiac labs and an ekg? They say yeah that sounds good we'll put them in.. then they all disappear!! We had to call supervisors to get patient to higher care!!!