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16-yr-old girl signs into the ER, states, "My mom wants the doctor to check me because I'm claustrophobic and scared of big dogs."

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I have seen a person come in with a boil and the Doc asked how long they have had it and the person answered "3 weeks". This person came in at 10 pm on a Friday night!!!

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As an EMT...long ago, my partner and I arrived on the scene and were told to bring the stretcher for the woman who had "the flu and two broken hips..." she had PID...I have never been sure why she called an ambulance. I have always found it funny the way scenarios play out and also how they can be completely misconstrued...Emergency medicine is the best place to find that!!!

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I have seen a person come in with a boil and the Doc asked how long they have had it and the person answered "3 weeks". This person came in at 10 pm on a Friday night!!!

Ohhhh, do NOT get me started!!!!!

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

One of my all time faves was "We wuz tusslin' and she knocked a wart off my thing." I must say that left me speechless.

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I will admit though that I did get to assist a Dr. with lancing a boil on a mans scrotum sac and that was pretty cool (so it worked to my advantage for once!). :uhoh3:

Would that be Scrotal Sac???? Ha Ha laughing at myself...

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Specializes in Hospice.

I had a lady one time hysterical because her baby's "insides were falling out"... let's try the infant's unbilical cord stump had come off. (And this wasn't the lady's first child!)

Or the patient who complained that first she was "hot" (outside temp was 80*+ and very humid), then she was "cold" when she went inside and turned her a/c all the way up and turned on a fan too. Patient was concerned she might be coming down with the flu (no other symptoms).

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Saw a woman today who claimed she has the flu. I asked her what makes her think she has the flu (wrong time of year), what are her symptoms?

"My ear hurts"

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Specializes in Hospice.
I am a CNA in ER and was working in triage Saturday and had someone run into the ER saying that there was a lady out in the parking lot that was not breathing. The nurse that was w/ me ran out the front door and I ran into the back to let them know what was coming. So all of us are running getting a stretcher and come to find out the patient was a little old lady who was not breathing well!!!! Who knows the difference between "not breathing" and "not breathing well"???

I had the opposite of this on an EMS call years ago. We arrived in the ambulance and asked the lady who was flagging us down if the patient was breathing. She answered yes. Well.... someone doing mouth-to-mouth breathing during CPR on the patient doesn't really count for the patient breathing in my book!

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I had the opposite of this on an EMS call years ago. We arrived in the ambulance and asked the lady who was flagging us down if the patient was breathing. She answered yes. Well.... someone doing mouth-to-mouth breathing during CPR on the patient doesn't really count for the patient breathing in my book!

Breathing: the act of air entering the lungs and then being expelled.

Technically..................:smackingf

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16-yr-old girl signs into the ER, states, "My mom wants the doctor to check me because I'm claustrophobic and scared of big dogs."

Apparent proof that the apple does not fall very far from the tree. :uhoh3:

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16-yr-old girl signs into the ER, states, "My mom wants the doctor to check me because I'm claustrophobic and scared of big dogs."

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very sad but true.

i cared for a lil (little old lady) who had been married for over 70 yrs.

after she died, her husband requested hospice services.

i asked him what he was dying from.

he softly said, "a broken heart".

i still get teary when i think of him.

he never did receive hospice, but did die 6 months and 2 days after his wife.

i heard that his doctor said he had the heart of a young man. (the bereavement counselor told us this)

who says people can't die from a broken heart?

leslie

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