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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While working in a mid level ER, I was closing out my charting and a Practitioner comes to the nursing station " can you tell me what happened to Patient J?" They called me and asked me to admit him but he is not in that room. My response " well what info do you have on the Patient?" The Practioner states " all I wrote down was male with abdominal pain" " why can't these people just stay put?!?" Blissfully this was my group and I narrowed it down , the patient gab been transported to an inpt bed 4 hours priorðŸ˜
Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.
Working with one of my favorite physicians during a pretty hectic clinic day. The doctor sticks his out the door and exclaims (with his thick accent and a smile), "Can you please come in here, she doesn't understand my Arabic English. I just can't understand why!" :)
One time four of my co-workers and I were struggling to put a combative patient in restraints. The physician popped his head in and said "Sir, would you believe me if I told you I was jealous?" 😳
A physician calls me into a patient room.. the patient had very obviously passed on to the eternal care unit. . After giving him the dumb look like do you need me to pronounce.... I asked well do you want to code... seriously his response was I don't know let me go call the family. . (There was no bringing this one back but I still couldn't believe the response was I don't know let me go call the family )
The doctor was writing prescriptions for discharge and asked me how to spell Norco. I told him but he still called pharmacy and they spelled it out for him 🤣🤣🤣
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Sarahmaestillion
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Told the doctor I had to send a resident to the ER for high blood pressure and he says "well did you take a manual?" Like duh lol