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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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I worked Med-Surg in a small town for awhile and we sometimes would end up with a few criticals but most were transferred out. One hospitalists didn't generally deal with them but he was that night. We had a critical K+ so we were giving kalexate. the patient had severe diarrhea and was using a bed pan. The doctor walked in and was like Scrubs wasn't lying. She really does have potassium coming out of her assium.
"Why can't I reply to this nurse's twitter? (referring to significant events in the flowsheet) I'm taking care of it!!" Residents say the darnedest things.
A neurologist was speaking to me in the nurses station when he loudly stated, "I am the most intelligent physician in this hospital!" as he stood up and crossed his arms against his chest. The nurse standing behind me stated just as loudly, "HA!". It was everything I could do to keep from laughing in his face.
As we started the day, a patient's mother starts crying hysterically first thing in the morning and just says "let me be, I'm alright" walking into the physician's exam room. A little later we have patient requesting a food order but the mother lists over 30 allergies to foods including tomatoes and jalapenos yet requests hot sauce for her eggs. In the afternoon a family member is absurdly angry at the staff for speaking with a patients mother outside of her room and wants to report us for a HIPPA violation (might I add, the mother outside the room was requesting to know where the water station was for her son). All three of the patients see the same doctor and at the end of the day his only comment before leaving was a laugh to himself and "...why do I get all the crazy ones".
During a code the supervising doctor asks me if I thought McDonald's that was inside the hospital had any pie tonight? Completely nonchalant like nothing else was happening :)
I had called the physician 4 times for a patient with persistent projectile vomiting. Before hanging up on me during the 4th call, he yelled, "Adults DO NOT have projectile vomiting!!"
When we finally walked into the patients room a few minutes later, the first thing he said was, "How did the vomit get in the clock???"
One doctor(resident) came up to me one day and tried to give me the verbal order of ambulating a certain patient in the hall. Mind you, there was "no hello are you the nurse for this patient or anything." Just came up demanding I ambulate this patient. Turns out the patient was a double amputee and didn't have legs at all. Once I pointed it out very loudly to him in the hallway, he slithered off with his tail between his legs.
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I worked Med-Surg in a small town for awhile and we sometimes would end up with a few criticals but most were transferred out. One hospitalists didn't generally deal with them but he was that night. We had a critical K+ so we were giving kalexate. the patient had severe diarrhea and was using a bed pan. The doctor walked in and was like Scrubs wasn't lying. She really does have potassium coming out of her assium.