Granny Dumping

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With the Memorial Holiday over it is now the official beginning of summer time vacation. Time for the family to hit the road, the skies or the boats. But what to do with Gramma? Lets take her to the ER. She hasn't appeared "quite right" lately. Heck she even peed on the couch last week. Im sure they can keep her in the hospital for a few weeks while we go on vacation!!!

Yes folks, this is quite common. I even had one pts darling daughter who overloaded granny on a salty bacon breakfast and skipped a few days of lasix so she could get nice and gurgly for us in the ER. Time to call social services, elder abuse.

Ever get one of these in your ER?

Grrr...we once had a couple that had a baby 6 weeks preemie. Once mom was dismissed, we only saw mom and dad once or twice a week. No other kids or anything, they just felt that we were there to provide care, so they didn't need to be there. Once the baby was finally ready to be dismissed, we couldn't find the parents...they were in New York on vacation. :rolleyes:

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