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Some ER's have patients who walk in to triage fill out a triage slip with name and chief complaint. they are always interesting due to misspellings and funny things that people write. care to share some funny ones with us?

ill go first, one girl wrote as her symptoms...."east infection"

Specializes in Med surg, ICU, office, ER.

We have registration clerks who write the chief complaint and bring it to the triage nurse. I think my favorites from last were:

1.My daughter whipped my @$$

2.Bleeding from rectum and brought the tissue

3.There's a spider on my foot

and this from the NURSE:::Pt has been pistol wiped before......:eek:

We post the best of the day on the board in the breakroom!

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.
My favorites are the psych pts who manage to act normally until about 75% through triage and make 1 comment that makes you change everything.

OK, that just made me nearly spit out my diet Coke! So true, so true ...

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Today someone actually wrote their complaint as "Hot Thighs" haha

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i give up, what's a fur uncle? i also don't get the eating a "nut" one.

be kind. help the feeble-minded (ie. me) to understand!

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Had a pt come in and say "I'm not quite sure but I think something is coming out of my orifice." Don't know about you guys but I am very sure when something is coming out of my orifice!!!!!

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Specializes in emergency.

during a full moon we had one pt sign in saying she "thinks she has a mouse in my lady parts or rectum" (pretty sure i'd know). not 10 minutes later someone else walked in saying she was struck by lightning.

And no I don't work in a psych hospital :lol2:

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Specializes in Emergency.

I had a woman bring her child to the triage desk and tell us that the child had "big scissors". She meant seizures, of course, but pronounced it "scissors."

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Specializes in Emergency.

"I said I wanted a BUD light!" :rotfl:

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Specializes in ER, Hospice, CCU, PCU.

Honest - cross my heart etc,etc

Last weekend a guy came in and said "I'm homeless, I have an assessment interview in the morning so I need a meal, a shower, someplace to sleep and make sure the TV gets CNN"

We had about a 6 hour wait at that time. When I left 10 hour later, know where he was...Oh yes...He was still in the waiting room (watching CNN)

{Incase you're wondering, When we built the new ER a few years ago, every ER treatment room ended up with a phone and a TV. Gee :trout: stupid me...I thought it was all about Emergency care.)

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i give up, what's a fur uncle? i also don't get the eating a "nut" one.

be kind. help the feeble-minded (ie. me) to understand!

Well, a furuncle is a boil caused by an infected hair follicle - maybe that's what they were trying to say?

As for the nut thing - "nutting" "nutted" "got a nut" are all slang for ejaculating, and "nut" would be the semen.

Sorry, but you asked ;)

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Specializes in ER, ICU.

How about "staff infeksion" caused no doubt by the local killer spiders;)

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