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

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 ?

Specializes in ER (new), Respitory/Med Surg floor.

I adore cats! I actually wanted to be a vet but only liked cats and chose nursing instead. My cat rugrat was a mom to all our other bunch of cats and had their children well four and we kept my white fluffy one simba seen below! I also found one on an entrance ramp to a highway dehydrated. My dad and I took him home and named him lucky. but oh yeah cats will care for their young! What grossed me out is the sound of Rugrat eating her afterbirth!!!!

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That is a very very odd kitty hat. Do I dare ask where you found it? I can't say much though I have put a paper "nurse cap" on George(big momma cat). And yes before anyone says it I know George is a boys name and is a little odd for a female cat.

That is a very very odd kitty hat. Do I dare ask where you found it? I can't say much though I have put a paper "nurse cap" on George(big momma cat). And yes before anyone says it I know George is a boys name and is a little odd for a female cat.

LOL--all our cats have been around since my kids were in grade school. Our cat, Christopher was named Crystal by my son(now nearly 20) when he was in kindergarten because we thought he was a girl--we called him Crystal until we took him to get spayed, and found out "he" needed to be neutered, instead!

3 of our cats were named after various boyfriends of my daughters (now 25 and 27. Boyfriends are looong gone and forgotten, but their names are immortalized in the cats.

I adore cats! I actually wanted to be a vet but only liked cats and chose nursing instead. My cat rugrat was a mom to all our other bunch of cats and had their children well four and we kept my white fluffy one simba seen below! I also found one on an entrance ramp to a highway dehydrated. My dad and I took him home and named him lucky. but oh yeah cats will care for their young! What grossed me out is the sound of Rugrat eating her afterbirth!!!!

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That was a good thing that you and your dad did for Lucky. I tell my daughters not to trust men who don't like animals! I hope you have a boyfriend or husband who is as caring as your dad. Most people would have driven on by.

Simba is adorable; so is his nursing cap! He certianly looks well fed!

I have my own story on this...

Years ago, when I was a student nurse I decided to try tanning. I am a very fair skinned Canadian, so I should have been very cautious. New to tanning I didn't know just what would happen, I tanned for a 'mere' 10 minutes.

I was pink that night, pink and itchy and sore. The discomfort grew and escalated as I went to bed. I applied lotion, it was soothing and felt good when fresh on, but dried and the discomfort was there all the more, it seemed. I took a bath around midnight, my skin craved coolness, water was soothing. I was getting panicky as I had clinical in the morning and needed some rest. There was some Tylenol in my personal care supplies so I took some, bathed again, and applied lotion yet again. The lotion was drying and the effect not lasting so I applied it yet again and wrapped my limbs and chest and back in saran wrap (was getting desperate for sleep).

It was around 2:30 am, still no sleep and ran out of ideas to gain comfort I walked on over to the Emerg (was living in Nurses Res at the hospital that I trained at). Fortunately they were not busy so I didn't have to feel too guilty for coming with overexposure from a tanning bed. The doc gave me some T3's and sent me off to sleep and told me to not tan anymore or reduce my time way down as my skin did not take well to it.

I did sleep after taking the T-3's. :zzzzz

A patient came in via ambulance for a sunburn. Needless to say she waited in the waiting all night, I don't know if she was ever seen or left, but even hang nail patient would have been seen before her.

Definately the guy who came in at 11:30 on a Friday night for weight loss..

Exactly, what did he want? Did he have a CC or did he want liposuction on the spot?

Now why in the world would you even think that it would be silly to go to the ER for that? I had a kidney stone years ago. It was probably the worst pain I ever felt in my life!

I have had a lady come in because she "hid" a hundred dollar bill in her rectum. Needless to say, she couldn't get it out. She said that she had unsuccesfully tried to "dig" it out. The MD did a rectal exam but refused to get an anoscope to go searching for something that would come out on it's own. The patient got panicked and cried until he gave her a bottle of mag citrate and sent her back out onto the streets. Apparently, she was mad because she wanted a fix and wanted it out that second. Just think about that the next time you use money!

Ash

A young couple brought their 4 month old in because he was crying for 3 hours earlier in the day, no fever, no vomiting, no rash, no nothing. Very cute baby though!

Another memorable favorite. I've had several C/O diaper rash x 1 hour. Of course, no OTC meds tried. Grrr.

The classics we get are the males (I can't call them men) between 20 and 40 who come in with: vomitted x 1 - 8 hrs ago, nausea (as they sit there with their coke and chips), rash, and various aches and pains. The one thing they all have in common is that they are single, have recently moved here to work or go to school and Mommy is back home in what ever town they came from. It's also very hard to "encourage" these guys to go to a clinic instead, they would rather sit in the ER waiting room for 8 hrs with lots of complaints of course. Rain at night brings the regulars that normally sleep in doorways, it's amazing how knowledgable they are about how triage works, they know which complaints will get them a stretcher right away.

On the opposite end of the list are the people who are dragged into the ER by wives or husbands in the midst of an MI or stroke, "Oh come on dear it's just a little indigestion!"

Specializes in Emergency, management.

:rotfl: :rotfl: A frequent flyer came by ambulance for a mosquito bite! It was difficult not to laugh at her, we treated her with benadryl.

and do 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 :)

Specializes in home & public health, med-surg, hospice.
I have had a lady come in because she "hid" a hundred dollar bill in her rectum. Needless to say, she couldn't get it out. She said that she had unsuccesfully tried to "dig" it out. The MD did a rectal exam but refused to get an anoscope to go searching for something that would come out on it's own. The patient got panicked and cried until he gave her a bottle of mag citrate and sent her back out onto the streets. Apparently, she was mad because she wanted a fix and wanted it out that second. Just think about that the next time you use money!

Ash

Oh my grossness....LOL!

Ya'll should've told her, if you got it out, it'd have to go towards her bill.

But then again, that'd probably make the business office clerk none to happy... :rotfl:

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