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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 disturbing on so many levels. I don't have a link handy, ...

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 lined up and saluted a leg of lamb."

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 was on the unit, and the next day, the kids went t...

In 40 years, everyone will know exactly how old Katniss and Haymitch are (and you just know those names will be spelled multiple ways too). As for Candida, that's a fairly common Hispanic name and in the early 1970s was the title of a hit song by Ton...

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' appointments almost every day, trips to the ER if there wasn...

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 their burn units because the entire hospital was in...

And that wasn't what I was talking about in my earlier post. Even the least complicated case of diabetes can be tricky to manage. I was talking about people who really do nothing, or less than nothing, even though they know better and have access (...

Diabetes seems to be the only chronic disease out there that people think they can make go away by defiantly rejecting even the most reasonable doctors' orders. Most of the Type II diabetics I know smoke, eat horribly on purpose, refuse to take thei...

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

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 because he wasn't going to have to pay child support...

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 usually got in a whole season) and there was a story on ...

I once knew a teacher (he's since died) who said that "Alice" was the one name he never saw spelled the same way twice. Alyce, Aliss, Alys, Allice, etc.

Regarding animal names: Last night, I saw a TV show about husband and wife (possibly serial) murderers Benjamin and Erika Sifrit. They had pythons named Bonnie, Clyde, Hitler, and HIV.

I was watching a PBS show about genealogy a few days ago, and one of the people they profiled had an ancestor named Mellitus.

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; I first read it about 20 years ago, and now that ...

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

RubyVee, why did your husband's mother come to visit, and your husband insist that she live with you, when he clearly didn't enjoy her presence? I saw a story (don't recall if it was here or another site) where a woman moved her Alzheimer's strick mo...

Why isn't she eligible for Medicaid?

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 pregnant.

Thanks. I'll have to remember that.

I can safely assume that it worked - permanently?

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

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 noncompliant people on earth.

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 urologist in my region who specializes in treating erec...

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, because they remove the entire eyeball. Trust me,...