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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 on a surgical floor and one our orthopedic doctors had a farm so on the weekends he would work on his farm. Well one weekend he was on call and came into the hospital to see a new patient who need surgery. The doctor had apparently been working outside and was covered in dirt and looked like he hadn't showered in days! So he proceeds to tell the patient that he's the AC guy coming to fix it in his room. After that the patient didn't believe that the doctor was his real doctor so one of us nurses had to confirm that he was indeed the doctor - a really good one at that! Lol
Dr: it shouldn't take long, your testicles haven't sucked up into your stomach yet, so I should be able to find the tubes quickly. You seem pretty calm.
After a week of neverending petty baseless complaints against every nurse in the unit from a patient's daughter, the surgeon stomped into the room and said, "Starting at this very moment right here right now, you will stop this foolishness. You will not mess with my nurses again. If you do, you'd better have your mom's bags packed first!" And for emphasis he hugged me on the way out!
"Dr. I'm sorry but the pharmacy says that medication doesn't come in that miligram." Dr says "oh I know that. You wrote it down wrong. It's doxycycline not tetracycline!" (Even though it was a prewritten script from dr to nurse.) "Oh ok sir, thank you, I will let them know" -geez!
An OB MD who did a c-section on a patient who went septic. He transferred her to my telemetry unit and ordered antibiotics. 30 min later he calls me into the room in front of the patient and asked why I didn't give the antibiotics. I replied that the patient just got to the unit and pharmacy had to verify and mix the antibiotics. In front of the patient and family he screamed, "it's your fault she has an infection!!" I wrote him up for that. He's the one that caused it. Not me.
Calling a Dr. On night about a patient. Sleepy I am sure. After telling him the situation he asked me what would l do. I made a suggestion and he said that sounds good do it. OK on with my job.
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I worked on a surgical floor and one our orthopedic doctors had a farm so on the weekends he would work on his farm. Well one weekend he was on call and came into the hospital to see a new patient who need surgery. The doctor had apparently been working outside and was covered in dirt and looked like he hadn't showered in days! So he proceeds to tell the patient that he's the AC guy coming to fix it in his room. After that the patient didn't believe that the doctor was his real doctor so one of us nurses had to confirm that he was indeed the doctor - a really good one at that! Lol