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!
Winner will be announced May 16, 2017
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 grabbed a chart that had SPIES written on it. I asked the doctor why does this chart say SPIES on it? He was like oh no...are we seeing this pt today? I told him yes. He was like dang it...it means Stinkiest Patient I Ever Saw...so I know to brace myself when I go in there. Yes, this is an OB/GYN doc!
Our ob gyn doctor does a speculm puppet show for teens "see if you stay abstinent you get the little baby speculm in a baby voice but if you have sex with too many partners you get the BIG MOMMA spec in a grumbly voice"
After a respiratory therapist failed to replace the cartridge in a high flow machine to change the settings within 30 minutes of the order, a resident asked me and another nurse what we had been doing the whole time and if we "have just been sitting around" -_-
I was a young nurse fresh out of college making rounds with the doctor. We went to the door of the patients room. The doctors stopped and looked in and said "Oh my....she looks like a beached whale".
Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.
Pt needed an NG tube. I really didn't want to do it. Gave it to the resident. You do it, no-you do it, no-you do it, you're the doctor-I'm not a doctor, I'm a psychiatrist!. ROFL. My favorite
Oh after 35 years, I should have a ton of these and I'm sure they will come to me. This is 1 that I don't really find humorous but more unbelievable! A doctor was seeing 6 month old baby in the ER, she had a severe rash on her face, a fever and had been sick for several days. He told the mom to take her home, give her benedryl and Tylenol and put lotion on her rash because after all if a baby is still able smile, even a little, they are fine! I reported him and the baby ended up hospitalized for a week and almost died!
I entered an elderly patients room to remove her from bedpan. Found her pulseless and non breathing. I called a code and started CPR. With the first compression I felt and heard every bone break. My compressions than were less deep. The code team arrived and the resident yelled "deeper compressions". I stated, " no, you can do them". He did 1 compression, stepped away and said, "no, you can do them."
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I once read in a h and p that the patient's admitting diagnosis was "brown eyes". Did you mean jaundice dr???