Scary doctors!!!

[LadyBugLass]

NO NAMES HERE PLEASE....

What is the worst thing you have ever seen a doctor do?

I'll start...an ER resident gave a patient with a third degree block lidocaine, despite my partner reminding him that it was a BAD idea. Well, you can guess the outcome. He used to be really cocky and condescending; now, he's just as polite and humble as can be, and turned into a really great doctor!! I saw him on "Trauma-Life in the ER" not too long ago!!

My preceptor told me about a truly terrifying surgeon. She had an ICU pt. with a HUGE, massively infected abdominal surgical wound that was left open for all of the drainage and to directly treat the infection. When the surgeon came to visit the pt., he removed the dressings to inspect the site. There was alot of pus in there, so...

HE PICKS UP THE PATIENTS TONSIL-TIP SUCTION THAT HAD FALLEN ON THE FLOOR AND STICKS IT INTO THE WOUND TO REMOVE ALL THE DRAINAGE!!:uhoh21:

When he saw B.'s jaw hit the floor, he just stared at her and said "Well, the wound's not sterile either."

[leslie :-D]

there was a story here in massachusetts about a surgeon that left the operating table (right in the middle of surgery) to go to the atm to get money.

yes, his license has been suspended.

[unikuelady, RN]

During my OR rotation in nursing school, I observed the surgeon all gowned and gloved-in the operating room- open up a newspaper :imbar on top of the a-w-a-k-e patient :uhoh21: reading out loud the want ads for a car. This went on for 10 minutes. No one in operating room said anything. When the patient was anesthetized...he proceded to operate...no changing gloves etc. he also dropped an instrument on the floor and the scrub nurse picked it up-rinsed it in the basin of irrigation fluid and handed it back to the surgeon. To top it off....the fluid in the basin was used to irrigate the wound when surgery completed! Yes the patient lived.....after several weeks in the hospital with massive infections. Gee..I wonder how the patient got the infections?

[smk1, LPN]

EWWW these are just gross!

[IMustBeCrazy]

Unikuelady,

I conjured up a mental picture of what you described:

DocBraindead: "Hrmm, the Mercedes 600SL looks intriguing, but I like the styling on the BMW Z8..'course the price difference is about 50K...I'll have to think about it.."

What a freaking moron.

[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

A long time ago in a hospital far, far away, had an OB doc put a 40-week gestation patient through 5 rounds of cervidil and 3 days of Pit.. because he had a ski vacation planned the following weekend and didn't want her delivery "interrupting" his vacation :angryfire

Miraculously, she avoided having a c-section (ONLY due to the interventions of the on-site midwife), but ended up with some nasty lacs.

[LadyBugLass]

Saw an anesthesiologist mainline straight dopamine to a pt. who "didn't wake up quick enough." Oh, he woke up, when his pressure shot up from about 100 systolic to 230 systolic in 60 seconds. Is that standard practice?

[RN4NICU, LPN, LVN]

During my OR rotation in nursing school, I observed the surgeon all gowned and gloved-in the operating room- open up a newspaper :imbar on top of the a-w-a-k-e patient :uhoh21: reading out loud the want ads for a car. This went on for 10 minutes. No one in operating room said anything. When the patient was anesthetized...he proceded to operate...no changing gloves etc. he also dropped an instrument on the floor and the scrub nurse picked it up-rinsed it in the basin of irrigation fluid and handed it back to the surgeon. To top it off....the fluid in the basin was used to irrigate the wound when surgery completed! Yes the patient lived.....after several weeks in the hospital with massive infections. Gee..I wonder how the patient got the infections?

Must have been those nasty nurses not washing their hands. Isn't that always the "determined cause". Never mind docs going patient to patient with ties and labcoats flapping in the breeze. Some of them never wash their hands. (Gross!) They just sort of wave their hands around close to running water. When wounds get infected it's always the nurses who get blamed - "They don't wash their hands, they break sterile technique when changing the dressing." Crap! That wound is already infected when we get the patient.

Don't even get me started on ventilator-acquired pneumonia. We get nailed with that one too. "Those nurses don't suction often enough, they don't provide mouth care often enough". Yeah right. Picture this: code is called, patient needs an airway. In swaggers the anesthesiologist to intubate. MDA places the laryngoscope and pulls the ETT out of its sterile container and attempts to place it in the patient's sterile airway. Oops - missed, tubed the esophagus. Patient vomits. MDA withdraws tube - wipes it off on either his pants or the bed and takes this same ETT (now covered with emesis, HCL, and whatever little germies were lurking around on whatever the tube was wiped on - not to mention any emesis that may have gotten INSIDE the tube) and places it in what was a sterile airway. Patient is bagged then put on vent. We'll say this code is successful. Fast forward a couple of days. CXR is done. Of course, half the lung fields are whited out. What happened?? Must have been those lazy nurses not suctioning and not doing mouth care...

[CHATSDALE]

we had this cardiac surgeon who would go on rounds of cabg pts...he would remove dressing from chest/legs with bare hands[there were gloves on the wall] he would throw the dressings into regular trash in room...look at wound and touch incision...then go from that room into next room and repeat the whole bizarre routine...ain't nursing fun

[jaimealmostRN]

This is def not as bad as all the others posted here, but I thought it was so GROSS! I was observing in the OR one day during my externship. It was a AAA surg that went well. As soon as the pt was sutured up and the surgeon left the room, the pt began to bleed. The RNFA was there, still gloved up, and put pressure on it....the surgeon walks back in, no gloves, and instructs the surg tech, circulating RN, and another tech to set up the field again (sorry don't know the terms). The incision that was bleeding was right next to the pts groin area....so picture this, and remember the RNFA was perfectly capable of holding pressure, had gloves on, etc. The surgeon has his bare hands covered in blood, and right on the pts member. I know this was an emergency, but the RN could have held until he PUT SOME GLOVES ON!!! Yuck!

[vickster]

I hope we all remember all the awesome Docs out there that save people everyday, I wouldn't want that job. I dislike negative threads like this, it multiplies negativity and is bad for morale.

People that work in health care have to stick together or everything falls apart.

Anybody who is unwilling to report gross negligence is just as guilty!

[warrior woman]

I hope we all remember all the awesome Docs out there that save people everyday, I wouldn't want that job. I dislike negative threads like this, it multiplies negativity and is bad for morale.

People that work in health care have to stick together or everything falls apart.

Anybody who is unwilling to report gross negligence is just as guilty!

Oh Please!! Give people room to vent when they feel they need to with making sweeping judgemental statements which weaken morale just as quickly. Sometimes you need to get things off your chest, because keeping them in is far more detrimental to yourself as well as your patients.

[mariedoreen]

How 'bout a general physician who started an autopsy on his patient in the patient's hospital room after his death? No, he's not a pathologist, no he has no legal authority whatsoever to perform an autopsy, no the hospital room is not set up for such a "procedure", and no the nurses who entered the room completely unaware of what he was up to were NOT happy to assist as per his request. And yes, he's practicing elsewhere now.