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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I have heard a lot of crazy things from doctors, I remember one doctor telling me that I needed to write my own orders and not call him ever, that conversation did not end well, I had another doctor ask me why I was calling him when he was not on call and once I told him what I needed he kept repeating why are you calling me like a little child until I ended up hanging up on him lol!
Specializes in Nurse Education, Obstetrics, Surgery.
An ER resident was doing his OB rotation and was on shift. I had a resident multip OB patient being induced for labor. I was working night shift. He came in around 0300 after I worked very hard to get her to relax and go to sleep. Yes, he woke her up and I found him at the bedside telling her that since she wasn't making any progress that she was going to have a c-section. I walked out before he finished his conversation and he found me at my computer documenting. I asked what his name was. He confronted me and said that there seemed to be some hostility. I told him no, no hostility but just wanted to documented who woke up the patient and was giving her false information and causing her anxiety. He then proceeds to tell me that the patient had been in labor for Xhrs and that she was not making any progress requiring a c-section. I informed him that she wasn't in labor yet so a c-section wasn't warranted and the attending physician didn't call a c-section so he had no place to tell the patient that (she had no prior c-section). He then says (with two other RNs at my sides) "the pt has been contracting every 2 minutes so she's in labor).... all three of us RNs said in reply in unison, "labor is regular contractions WITH cervical change"..... and here's the funny part, he says "that's what my little black book says"..... we just laughed and laughed and laughed... outcome? My patient finally delivered at 0730 lady partsLLY!!!!
While working on an ICU and the Dr wa writing his orders for a critically ill patient he said, "Its like rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic, it's still going down"
Oncall doc orded a med we didn't carry at the rehab hospital I worked at. Had to call him a second time in the middle of the night for further orders. He wasn't pleased. He screamed at me, "What is this? Cupcake General?" I didn't know how to respond other than a nervous laugh. So he screamed again, "Answer me dammit!" I was a new nurse & was trying not to cry. I just said, "Sir, can you please order something else?" Honestly, don't remember what happened after that, lol.
First day on the job, had to wake up a doctor because our patient was declining and I needed orders. He blessed me out. The next day he came up to the facility. The patient passed after left to go home. He came up to me and said, "Good call. Thank you. You know what you're doing. Sorry about the obscenities."
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AggieNurse99, BSN, RN
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"Make him a DNR but do not tell him," the worst order I ever had given to me! Yes, the doc ended up without privileges.