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ATTN ER Staff!
I am writing a "paper" on the dumbest reasons/stories that people show up/come to ER. Would appreciate ANY input ANY of the ER staff out there has for me.........................IF you'd like a copy of the FINAL draft, please let me know and I'll forward it.
Thanks much!
PS. My winning entry so far is a Mom who brought 1 month old infant in at 2:30 AM because "it wouldn't look her in the eye. It doesn't recognize me!"
Not making this up
I work on a medical floor in a Level 1 hospital. One evening, one of the trauma surgeons was seeing a patient on our floor when his pager went off. A man and his wife were in the ER, he'd gotten a vibrator stuck in his rectum while they were playing. The Doc took off saying he guessed he'd check if they wanted it removed or just new batteries put in.![]()
When the guy was later transferred to our floor for a 24 hour obs - he and his wife disappeared down the back elevator before he could even be assessed. Imagine that!
Admitted for observation??? WOW! Must have had great insurance.
I was a student doing a rotation in the ER and working with the triage nurse on St Patrick's Day, no less. A woman came in because she cut her big toenail and went too far. Granted, it was bleeding, and I know that it's pretty painful, but she demanded to have something topical to numb the pain--of course since it's a medication, we can't do that without a doctor's order. So she and her husband make a big stink--that we were violating her human rights to be pain free for the sake of our "rules." So we call the charge nurse, and then one of the ER docs comes out with a big syringe with a long needle to give her a nerve block.
A friend of mine told me this one.
LOL in her 80's and her husband arrive in the ER. LOL has complaints of "transient episode of tachycardia, tachypnea and lightheadedness."
She was one of these incredibly healthy elderly types with no prior health history and no meds. Complete workup including EKG and enzymes was negative.
Finally, one resident had the presence of mind to ask what this sweet old lady was doing when this happened. Turns out she and her husband were doing the wild thing.
Apparently after 50+ years of marriage, Hubby finally got it right (better late than never). After receiving an explanation of the cause of her symptoms, she was sent home and told to go have another one.
Wish I could have seen the chart notes on that one. "D/C diagnosis: Orgasm"
peridotgirl
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wow! That's a good one... wonder what they were doing... huh? LOL
LOL!