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Ok I get a lot of questions / requests from patients and parents. Yesterday on April 1 I had a parent ask me if I could measure her daughter for a proper fitting bra👀. Immediately I thought this is a April fools joke. Calmly I replied no but there are many department stores who can. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Mom was serious .
Not weird requests but outright lies about reason being seen for pain seeking patients. Stuff they know would never be turned away like chest pain; or an acute complaint like UTI and you get them in the room and they actually just want their oxycodone Rx renewed for vague back pain complaints. Ask them directly about said reason for appt and they deny ever wanting to be seen for UTI or chest pain, etc. Even our staff will lie to get someone out of the waiting room into another provider's exam room--eg day before yesterday patient showed up to establish, 1 hour late for appt, told them I wouldn't see her and she started banging her head against the wall wailing she was going to kill herself if she didn't get her pain meds. They told a different provider she'd walked in off the street with acute suicidal thoughts, never mentioned she was actually scheduled and arrived late, so he saw her. It was a giant spectacle that ended with her spewing profanities and threats at the check-out lady after her pain pills were denied for obvious pain-seeking behavior (multiple prescriptions and ED visits in the last few months, not to mention the behavior she exhibited at the visit). Oy vey, I'm burnt out too.
when I was working inpatient peds I had parents ask me to remove their 9 month old and take him to the nursery because he was crying too much. I reminded them that their son is 9 months old, this is not a maternity floor and the room is actually their sons and they can go home if the crying is bothering them.
I have had parents ask me to check their 13 yo daughter to see if she was still a virgin.
My favorite is when parents do not want to pay for basic OTC items like nasal saline drops, aveeno cream, Claritin, etc and request prior auths through the pharmacy.
imintrouble, BSN, RN
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I've had requests to shave arm pits and legs and I thought that was outrageous.
I'm afraid my poker face wouldn't have held up over shaving the lady parts.