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 work on a Telemetry unit. An ICU nurse was "pulled" to our unit. A cardiologist told her "what are you doing out here with the pigeons, when you could be back there soaring with the eagles" ----->I was so offended. I work my ass off. I'm not a damn pigeon!
I work in a dementia unit and one of the physicians was looking at a patient who appeared to have an extra set of testicles. The physician said not to worry " you can never have to many balls" OMG
I had a difficult non compliant patient who was labeled as drug seeking that needed a blood transfusion. Patient said she reacts and needs benadryl iv or she would refuse treatment. The doctor tried refusing to give benadryl stating that she is drug seeking and there was no documentation of transfusion reactions. He said we will restrain her if necessary. I said What about do no harm..give her the damn benadryl unless u want to restrain her
I had a doctor removing a chest tube from a patient. It was inserted under her left breast. She was very blessed upstairs, if you know what I mean. He had the patient lay on her side towards me and mouthed to me to hold her boob so he could remove the dressing and chest tube. I was not expecting that to come out of his mouth. LOL and trying to keep a straight face when the patient is watching me asking me what's going on. 😳
We had something that needed to be gas sterilized so it couldn't be ready for his case and he stated..."flame it, flame it". Now the nurses of today will not know what he meant, but the nurses of yesteryear will.
Way back in 1993 I was only about 1 year out of nursing school. I had previously spent 17 years working in the hospital security department. Due to staffing levels the hospital could not hire me as a nurse. I was working 2-3 days per week in the ER at another hospital. My other 2 or 3 days I would go back and do my shift in security at my original hospital to make ends meet. One day I heard there was a code in the ER. There was concurrently two others going on at the exact same time. One other in ER and one in the cath lab. Since I was near the ER I stopped to check if assistance was needed. As I entered the new resident was shaking stated he's dead. He really had not checked out the client yet. I made him start compressions while a tech bagged and I cut the client's clothing off and proceeded to hook up an EKG. I then started an 18 gauge in both AC's. Keep in mind I was wearing a full police uniform with night stick and pistol. We eventually stablized the patient and I hear WOW they really cross train you security to handle everything. ER head nurse hired me on the spot and it was my last day working security.
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I work on a Telemetry unit. An ICU nurse was "pulled" to our unit. A cardiologist told her "what are you doing out here with the pigeons, when you could be back there soaring with the eagles" ----->I was so offended. I work my ass off. I'm not a damn pigeon!