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!"
Have you already finished the paper? I just came across this thread...
- One of the techs I work with told me that he once triaged a female who arrived via EMS... when he asked her for her name, she replied "Precious Ho."
- Chest pain: Patient complains of chest pains after "smokin' $500 worth of crack cocaine"
- Chest pain: "Patient complains of chest pain after starting to use crack after 9 months sobriety"
- Asthma exacerbation after using heroin. Needs intubation. Again. Visit history shows he was just discharged from the hospital 2 days ago due to the same issue. He has an extensive ER-->intubation-->ICU-->home-->heroin-->ER-->etc history.
- One brother shot another brother because they were fighting over fish.
- Penile itching... patient states his sister is a "prostitute" and she's been coming over to his apartment and borrowing his clothes behind his back.
- Baby is crying a lot. No vomiting, no diarrhea, good PO intake, good color, tears with crying, no fever, etc. The baby is just crying a lot.
- "I went to the washroom for a bowel movement and... it... just came out." (18 year-old who delivered a 7 pound baby into the toilet...grandma came by and fished it out... claims she didn't know she was pregnant). really???!!!
- vibrator lodged.
Actually on second thought... all this stuff sounds like it should be on the Maury show...
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work in small hospital in south africa. Walk in one morning at 2am. whole family. on way for holiday and just wanted to get check up to make sure nothing was going to spoil the holiday.. the dr on call admitted both children for observation for the night...
So, was talking to the nursing super today about apple guy. She said that she once had a cucumber guy. He drove from a small community past two other ERs to present himself, cucumber in wrong orifice, to her ER. His story was that he was camping and had nothing with which to wipe himself, so he used a cumcumber, and he slipped and the cucumber ended up you know where. :lol2:
I'd believe that story, wouldn't you?
YEAH, if I had a dollar for everytime I heard the "it slipped" story.. I might put that money up my... JUST KIDDING:lol2:
hello friend this is the first topic i participate in and let me tell you that this is great topic as i found it
and in my point of view if we kept talking about this topic we won't finish coz it is really funny and intreasting :welcome:
my story is a bet wear a couples show up to er the wife was crying and moaning and we were trying to calm her down and ask her what happened when she finally discided to say that her husband slapped her at the face which is the first time he doese that :trout:
my story is a bet wear a couples show up to er the wife was crying and moaning and we were trying to calm her down and ask her what happened when she finally discided to say that her husband slapped her at the face which is the first time he doese that :trout:
see how silly they are
bye
wait, did he really hit her in the face? because that's not a silly reason to go to the er, at all. i'd go to the er if my husband (theoretical, not married) slapped me in the face. your use of the word "bet" is throwing me off here.
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Wait, did he really hit her in the face? Because that's not a silly reason to go to the ER, at all. I'd go to the ER if my husband (theoretical, not married) slapped me in the face. Your use of the word "bet" is throwing me off here.
Agreed- I'd go to the ER if the cops were gonna be too slow in showing up.
Though the way that post reads, poster may be somebody from a place where this is the norm. Still, sad.
Wait, did he really hit her in the face? Because that's not a silly reason to go to the ER, at all. I'd go to the ER if my husband (theoretical, not married) slapped me in the face. Your use of the word "bet" is throwing me off here.
if someone slaps me in the face I wouldn't go to the ER; it's a waste of time. I would just ignore it ( if it was the first time) or call the police if my husband did that repeatedly (theorically, of course). But go to the ER, that's not that life- threatening and that I think that the nurses and staff have more important things to deal with than a person who gets slapped in the face. One calls the police for issues like those; not going to the ER
HaileyRN
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Have you already finished the paper? I just came across this thread...
- One of the techs I work with told me that he once triaged a female who arrived via EMS... when he asked her for her name, she replied "Precious Ho."
- Chest pain: Patient complains of chest pains after "smokin' $500 worth of crack cocaine"
- Chest pain: "Patient complains of chest pain after starting to use crack after 9 months sobriety"
- Asthma exacerbation after using heroin. Needs intubation. Again. Visit history shows he was just discharged from the hospital 2 days ago due to the same issue. He has an extensive ER-->intubation-->ICU-->home-->heroin-->ER-->etc history.
- One brother shot another brother because they were fighting over fish.
- Penile itching... patient states his sister is a "prostitute" and she's been coming over to his apartment and borrowing his clothes behind his back.
- Baby is crying a lot. No vomiting, no diarrhea, good PO intake, good color, tears with crying, no fever, etc. The baby is just crying a lot.
- "I went to the washroom for a bowel movement and... it... just came out." (18 year-old who delivered a 7 pound baby into the toilet...grandma came by and fished it out... claims she didn't know she was pregnant). really???!!!
- vibrator lodged.
Actually on second thought... all this stuff sounds like it should be on the Maury show...