Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

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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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[Nursecrystal777]

I was on the night shift years ago reading doctors notes in a chart during chart review and saw that he wrote: "The patient is super duper obese". I guess he has kids at home, I could not help but laugh at the word "duper".

[Bubbly26, BSN, RN]

New ENT resident put in order "Please do not ever suction patient." I had to call several times to clarify the order since the patient was a day 0 trach patient. The attending acually called back and said to please ignore the new moron on my service and suction as needed.