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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The OB nurses have the funniest, I am an orthopedic post op nurse and 1 of the doctors is always telling our patients they shouldn't have any pain after surgery. I don't know where he gets this info but if you cut, saw and hammer on bones they might hurt a little. Usually a lot.
Overhearing a couple of fairly new ( and I mean fresh out of school new) providers in a very intense conversation over the "better effectiveness" of ibuprofen over Motrin . I didn't have the heart ( or the breath for that matter) to tell them!
I was rounding with a doctor on my patients on a Tele unit. We walked into a room and the patient was sitting up in bed with the covers up. The doc did his assessment and was asking some questions. He said "When did you have your amputation". The patient looked obviously confused, as was I. The patient then unfolded her leg from underneath her. The doctor was totally embarrassed. The patient then said "I hope you are not the doctor doing my heart cath." 😄
So as a CDI RN I read and help train others how to read and how to document correctly. Well, that's sometimes a huge challenge!!
Part of the normal process while training a class how to use a new CDI system we enter the interfaces documents and many times start at patients H&P. Well let's just say sometimes what you see Doc have written definitely warrant MORE than a query!
Social history : "one-year-old patient does 
not smoke or drink and is presently unemployed with no previous births".
Discharge status: "alive but without permission".
Exam of genitalia: "reveals that he is circus sized."
Not a quote but rather a situation. One time a resident went to consent parents for a circumcision .......on a girl!!!! The resident didn't even realize it until one of us (nurses) said something to him.
A cardiologist comments in a patient's chart on managing her Heart Failure: managing this patient's heart failure is a furtile as rearranging the deck chairs in the Titanic. True!
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Me: I think my patient has blood in their stool and their H&H is dropping....
Doc: How does that concern me?