What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

Specialties Emergency Nursing Q/A

And did you have to treat them?

I am just curious. Your stories always seem to either crack me up or shake my head in amazement.

Thanks for sharing ?

We get enough of the pregnancy test b.s., which kills me...especially when they get fussy because we are seeing "those people that keep coming in bleeding or acting like they are having a heart attack." Buying a $7 pregnancy test at the drug store must be a foreign idea...guess where our taxes are going?!

~ My tongue itches........(hello do you think we have a miracle pill?)

.....................................some people. :coollook:

~ My tongue itches........(hello do you think we have a miracle pill?)

.....................................some people. :coollook:

This one turned out to be ridiculous, I think, but at the time---------

A friend of my son's came tearing up to the house--my teen-ager had hit a telephone pole riding his bike down a steep hill. I drove over, picked him and his bike up and took him to the ED for a huge splinter in a knuckle. (Left the bike in our yard and nearly gave my dh a heart attack). When the ED doc got out her forceps to determine how deep the splinter went in, it fell out into her lap. I felt a little foolish. :imbar

Not foolish at all...sounded like a darn good reason to go in. Once saw a show on a staph infection from a wood splinter. Pretty nasty stuff those splinters. :)

This one turned out to be ridiculous, I think, but at the time---------

A friend of my son's came tearing up to the house--my teen-ager had hit a telephone pole riding his bike down a steep hill. I drove over, picked him and his bike up and took him to the ED for a huge splinter in a knuckle. (Left the bike in our yard and nearly gave my dh a heart attack). When the ED doc got out her forceps to determine how deep the splinter went in, it fell out into her lap. I felt a little foolish. :imbar

Not foolish at all...sounded like a darn good reason to go in. Once saw a show on a staph infection from a wood splinter. Pretty nasty stuff those splinters. :)

had a guy come in complaining that he cut his toe nails too short.

had a guy come in complaining that he cut his toe nails too short.

Specializes in LTC.

I worked in a drs office where people would call c/o sob, pain in L arm ,CP and insist on coming to the office to be seen .Did not want to go to ED.

Specializes in LTC.

I worked in a drs office where people would call c/o sob, pain in L arm ,CP and insist on coming to the office to be seen .Did not want to go to ED.

Talk about parent in denial or just plain dumb......

While working a rural ER gig.....

Dad (Daryls brother Daryl...) comes in with 7 year old son (nose-pickin' and bouncing off the walls) stating son banned from riding school bus because he peed on some other children riders. (not wet his pants....I clarified....actually peed on)

"Do you think he has Diabetes?", says dad, "I heard that it can cause stuff like that" ....(as son is pulling cotton balls out of a jar on the counter...)

um yeah...:uhoh3:

Talk about parent in denial or just plain dumb......

While working a rural ER gig.....

Dad (Daryls brother Daryl...) comes in with 7 year old son (nose-pickin' and bouncing off the walls) stating son banned from riding school bus because he peed on some other children riders. (not wet his pants....I clarified....actually peed on)

"Do you think he has Diabetes?", says dad, "I heard that it can cause stuff like that" ....(as son is pulling cotton balls out of a jar on the counter...)

um yeah...:uhoh3:

Talk about parent in denial or just plain dumb......

While working a rural ER gig.....

Dad (Daryls brother Daryl...) comes in with 7 year old son (nose-pickin' and bouncing off the walls) stating son banned from riding school bus because he peed on some other children riders. (not wet his pants....I clarified....actually peed on)

"Do you think he has Diabetes?", says dad, "I heard that it can cause stuff like that" ....(as son is pulling cotton balls out of a jar on the counter...)

um yeah...:uhoh3:

Well...you gotta give the kid a break...

Look at his pedigree...

Poor kid!

:rotfl:

+ Add a Comment