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  1. Healthy women schedule C-sections to prevent vaginal stretching

    rph3664 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Has anyone personally encountered this, or known a doctor who would do it? There's been press about this in the past few years, along with a "too posh to push" philosophy, and it seems very...

  2. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    After 9/11, a pathologist opened a body bag and removed a bone with some flesh attached - and started laughing, because it was a pork chop. One of the other pathologists said, "Last week, everyone...

  3. Dangerous nurses

    rph3664 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't know if this was a nurse and never did find out exactly who it was, but at my old hospital, an employee in the child psych unit told her family over the dinner table that a neighborhood child...

  4. Frequent Flyers

    rph3664 replied to RustyMedic's topic in Emergency

    Here's another angle on ER abuse. I have a relative who got divorced some years back, and her ex-husband had to pay the kids' medical bills. You can probably guess what she did - doctors'...

  5. Shake and bake meth accidents filling burn units

    rph3664 replied to LydiaNN's topic in Burn

    I live in the Midwest (meth capital, as you probably all know) and my local newspaper recently did a big story about the burn unit in that city. The story said that some hospitals have had to close...

  6. How To Spot a Workplace Bully, Part One

    rph3664 replied to rn/writer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It doesn't matter where you work, or what you're doing, pretty much every place has someone who is immune from disciplinary

  7. 20 Things Nurses Wish They Never Had to Say

    rph3664 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Many years ago, one of my friends was told this.......about her 14-year-old son. Even worse? Several women (all women; no men said this) told her ex-husband that he was probably glad his son died...

  8. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    What's your room charge, like, $500 a day or what? Awfully expensive cable. Hope he ended up in jail. At the time, I was living in the storm's path (my town got more snow in that storm than we...

  9. "The Death Shift" (true crime book about nurse/serial killer)

    rph3664 posted a topic in General Nursing

    http://www.amazon.com/Death-Shift-Story-Genene-Murders/dp/0451401964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275935047&sr=1-1 This is by far the better of the two books about this horrendous case;...

  10. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I once saw an order on such a patient who needed to be cathed, and they nurses couldn't find his member either, so they called in a urologist and he had to use a lady partsl speculum to expose

  11. Holding our tongues vs things we really want to say!

    rph3664 replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency

    I know this is a really old thread being revived, but I believe that the reason some women do this is because they believe they can get an abortion at the ER if they are indeed

  12. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Thanks. I'll have to remember

  13. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    I can safely assume that it worked -

  14. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Most people who are not diabetic, or do not work in health care, would not know about sliding scale monitoring, or the details

  15. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    He was a type I with this kind of attitude, and lived to be 26? He must have had the consistution of Keith Richards. Actually, health care professionals with type II diabetes are probably the most...

  16. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    there are a lot of women who won't go to male doctors. lots of men are reluctant to see women doctors too, especially regarding.......that....... while this isn't an er story, there is a female...

  17. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    That's correct; when a person is a tissue donor, this is done to retain the body's shape if it's going to be viewed. They also stuff the eye sockets (I'm not sure with what) when corneas are donated,...

  18. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    rph3664 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I once told my old boss that I should start smoking so I can get guaranteed

  19. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    "Diet management" doesn't work for any diabetic if their diet consists entirely of candy by the pound. And no, you aren't allergic to diabetic candy because it gives you diarrhea. It's sweetened...

  20. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Was your dog male or female, and was he or she

  21. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh, yeah, I hear ya! I did, however, once have a customer who really did accidentally throw his Adalat CC in the trash and then toss the whole lot into the incinerator, and I also worked with a woman...

  22. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    It's quite possible that the person had intractable hiccups, which can make the person unable to eat or

  23. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Not a small number of those girls come to the ER, instead of going to the dollar store, because they believe that if they come to the hospital, they can get an abortion if it's

  24. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If you are telling your co-workers and/or friends that you believe your husband is sexually abusing the children, and the children themselves vehemently deny this, your marriage is NOT worth saving....

  25. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This probably came from all the people who went insane due to pernicious anemia, which is treated with injectable B12, and was a relatively new thing at that