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i swear this is true.... on my own grave
girl comes to the ed - pregnant at age 16 for the third time
so i decide to give the little "dumba$$ why aren't you on bc pills?"
she says - i am allergic - i say - how do you know you are allergic - she says - well they don't work for me - i say how do you know - she says "my mother got pregnant w/ me while she was on them - so she told me to say that i was allergic because they wouldn't work for me either"
gotta love those parents w/ and IQ of 50 procreating all over the place....
i promptly told the young girl that her mother didn't know her butt from a hole in the ground and to get herself to the health department and get some pills.
history questionaire
Do you have any allergies?
yeah they bother me all the time I am stuffed up and can't breath and I get the hayfever too
Are you allergic to any medicine?
well I get sleepy when I take benedryl
is there anything else any food allergies
well I don't like vegtables very much and i won't eat spinich or broccoli either one.
Are you on any daily medications?
Well I was taking that one pill but I had to stop because I got a rash.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
marcicatherine
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This thread is along the lines of patient lingo, but I have to share complaints I have heard this week.
Girl comes in and states "I stopped taking my birth control pills 3 days ago and now i'm bleeding".......
Elderly man chief complaint "I had leg cramps last night and now my bowels are locked up"......huh?
Woman with c/o fever. When asked if she had taken anything for the fever.......she replies "I haven't taken any pills, but i've done all the other things you're supposed to do to bring your fever down. I've drank a coke and some unsweetened tea, I smoked a menthol cigarette, and I cried......but just regular tears. I couldn't make any acid tears"...........(did i miss that day in nursing school?)
:chuckle :roll