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Too funny! Desperation at its best! I particularly like when they start asking to go to their car..."for just a little while". That is usually the very first clue on my floor that the pt. hasn't been forthcoming in their drug and etoh abuse history I had a patients fmily memeber tell me last month, " The doctor said that you could give my mom a shot to calm her down." first off..the mom was the wife of the patient..and second off..that doctor would never have told them that! Do theu really think they can trick us into giving out narcotics. I can just hear the conversation between them prior to this.."....she is just a nurse....she won't know the difference...tell her the doctor said.." WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!!

Have we forgotten that pain is what the patient says it is? Granted, the ER deals with a totally unique clientel, but in the ICU I find the scale helpful in dealing with post CABG and Chest painers, etc. Yes ....there is the occasional BIG baby who makes me nuts with his whinning, but medication makes them sleep....lol !!!