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She might have enjoyed one of my favorites. Not an order, but a RHB admitting dx: 'Baloney amputation'! Savvy

I just love these! I have a few to add myself DSS - Dying Swan Syndrome SAS - Subacute Stupidity Syndrome - usually results in CODS Savvy

Pretty sad. I hated it when those frequent fliers wold come in, the ones who really knew how to make you look bad. Would complain dramatically of chest pain at the doorway on their third visit of the day, exhibit severe symptoms of Dying Swan Syndr...

bet she really wanted her brows plucked, or a bikini wax! savvy

Oh, yeah, I remember on of those. Most expensive manicure she ever had when the doc cut her fake nail off. I'm quite sure her insurer rejected that claim! Came by ambulance, too! Savvy

Your post reminded me of the time I got 'corrected' for a data entry I DIDN'T make - and it would have been pretty strange if I had. I had a patient who was a left BKA and a right AKA, and I didn't enter a height for him! Should I have entered his cu...

She came to my ER too! >laugh Savvy

Oh-Oh! That's dangerous. You should have done something! Many years ago when I still worked in the ED, we had a young guy come into the dept. several days running, w/ that complaint. The doc told him each time that we weren't there to treat his p...

And I love the 'balony amputation' I've seen a couple of times. It fits right in w/ Eurospesis. Gotta love those folks in Admitting. Oh, that's right, it's called 'Patient Access' now, whatever that means. Savvy

Awful. When I still worked in the ED, we had a self-castration too. Guy felt that sexual thoughts were the work of the devil, and he was going to see to it that the devil couldn't drive him to sin. Extremely religions man, by all accounts. Someho...

These are the same ones who want to know when meals are, and how soon the TV can be turned on as soon as they get to their rooms, too.http://images.allnurses.com/smilies/angryfire.gif --- And then there was the guy who arrived by ambulance, got off t...

Since I wrote previously we have gone to 12 hour shifts, and now I'm on days. Very frustrating. I still have eight patients, no more feedback from the therapists than before, and at my institution (but not unique to us, I know) we are constantly be...

I've seen adm. Dx like this too, and they make me laugh. how about Eurosepsis, or Baloney Amputation, two of my favorites! Savvy

I work in an IRF in a hospital, a 32-bed unit. Occasionally we have 33 patients overnight. The RNS and LPNs work 12 hr shifts and the aids work 8 hour shifts. usually we have 8 or 9 patients on the 7A-7P shift and the 7P-7A shift will have about 1...

Well, I DID have a patient come back from the OR w/ an order for foley to intermittent wall suction...and an NGT to bedside gravity drainage! Maybe the doc's mind and fingers weren't working at the same speed? Savvy

Haven't you heard people say they have to go so bad their eyeballs are turning yellow? This is one way of dealing w/ the situation! Savvy

Just last night at work I checked an H&P - the admitting Dx was CVA, but the history stated that the patient tripped and fell at home, hit his head, had a subdural hematoma, a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a non-displace occipital fx...and NO mention ...

I had one tonight: enteric coated aspirin PR. Doesn't seem the route of choice to me! Savvy

BUT: ERs have to treat all, regardless of ability to pay. Urgicenters don't. Sounds to me like a job for a social worker in conjunction w/ ER staff, maybe a PA. But there will always be abusers like this. And they are very good at making big sc...

There's always 'bad bronicals'. Surely someone has come in w/ that! Savvy

I no longer work the ED, but somebody came in for removal of blackheads when I was working there. Now THAT was pretty silly - right up there w/ hangnails! Savvy

I think the idea is to inflate the balloon and apply pressure w/ it. That's the way I've seen it done. I don't understand what you would do w/ suction cath except to remove the blood, which wouldn't stop the bleeding. Is there something else you c...

I got pulled off my unit to work as the Unit Clerk on another floor (at RN wages, how's THAT for cost-effective planning!?!), and got this one to transcribe: "Pt may walk on floor". Must have brought her down to earth! Savvy

Oh, and then there was the patient wanted to know it he had 'roaches of the liver' (cirrhosis) because if he did, it was too late to stop drinking, and if he didn't, why stop? Savvy

And then want a ride back home. "Aw, come on, man! Waddya mean I can't get no ride home? You brought me here! I don't got no cab money. I know my rights!" Savvy