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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Called a doctor to get orders for a patient in severe pain gave him recommendations he choose to give me an order with a pain med the patient was allergic to. I told him her allergies and he said put in what ever you want and hanged up. Told my charge that I wanted to put in that communication order to show what happened but sadly no had to just call a dr above him To get the pt help.
Working with a doc who doesn't always use English the correct way. 'staring into space' me:what can I help with? Doc: "I didn't sleep much, I'm feeling, how you say, woke up on the wrong side of the bed?" Me:feisty? Doc: feisty? No, grunchy! Me: that's not a word doc: laughing, now it is :) he meant grumpy and grouchy all in one
That's called a "Sniglet" (like "musquirt": Musquirt (mus' kwirt) - n. The water that comes out of the initial squirts of a squeeze mustard bottle.
Being in nursing almost 20 years. I have heard some pretty crazy things. I have narrowed it to two instances.
The first occurred when I was a relatively young nurse, working a medical surgical floor. I was caring for a patient with sickle cell, who developed a priapism. The urologist who performed a blood releasing procedure early in the day called to check in on his patient... he said I'm calling to get a pecker check, I want to know if he half mast or full mast still.
Recently had an anesthesiologist ask. " smoke drink, do any illicit drugs, have any tattoos, have any body piercings" patient: " no" anesthesiologist: " well what do you do for fun"
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Amore13
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Working for a gyn doc
After a pelvic exan on a patient
Dr "She has SUIT"
Me huh
Dr " something up in there"