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 ?

I hesitate to say this, but I was called up to the ER to do a crisis eval. on a guy who was having marital problems and was concerned about his pending demand for a divorce. He wanted to talk to someone and get some advice. I didn't give much advice, but I did spend some time with him and provided a couple referrals.

Specializes in Med/Surg.
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Specializes in Med/Surg.
The most rediculous thing I have ever seen was a patient who lost a .....sex toy up his rectum. But that was not the funny part, his partner decided to try to get it out with salad tongs the kind with a hinge in the middle. The hinge got caught on the mucosa and he came walking in or with the tongs hanging out of his rectum. :rotfl:

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It's stories like these that make me lose all hope in natrual selection

On Christmas night, when the wait time was approximately 2 1/2 - 3 hours (!) a man came to the ER for a bump on his gum. A bump! No c/o pain, bleeding, etc. Just wanted to know what it was. The really sad thing is he actually waited the 3 hours to have it checked out. Really nice guy though, just a little wierd. :) Maybe he was lonely.

Yeah ! Wonder if he was eating it with a side of Fava beans? :chair:

Z

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Keely

Specializes in home & public health, med-surg, hospice.

okay, i'm gonna tell y'all a story that indirectly happended to me...:imbar

when i was in lvn school (about 12 years ago) i worked as an er clerk, so everybody there knew me, right?

anyway, one night while i'm relieving the switchboard my b/f (later husband) comes into the er w/ "pain in his groin." it's dx. as kidney stone.

but what does he ask the doctor???? "do you think i may have pulled a muscle from having too much sex?" omg!!!!! :uhoh3:

i got picked on so much for that! everybody knew about it too, of course. and you know, even though he did have a kidney stone and all, i still kind of think that was his intention in his question...to let everyone know what was what.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! :lol2:

Tell em all yeah it was probably from that - thank god you gave up the bottle of olive oil, the car battery and the duct tape before he really got hurt!

Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

hey I sunburn and mine are very bad so bad they blister and turn into 2nd degree burns and it doesnt matter how much sun block I put on I still burn baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad! I have had to go to er but by private vehicle and usually get a tetnus, IV antibiotics, benadryl and decadron for the itching shots mind you. and generally have to be wrapped in silvadene and have pain meds.

Specializes in ER, PACU, CORRECTIONAL HEALTH, FLIGHT.

three patients come immediately to mind......

1) chapped lips x 3 days

2) self-circumcision

3) cant find "hood ring" (referring to female genitalia ornament)

oh and also........

sunburn from tanning bed (called 911 and came via EMS)

Hmmm, I'm surprised no one has mentioned these yet:

Stubbed toe

burning eyes from chopping onions

paper cut

hoorifice voice from too much yelling

canker sore (mouth ulcer)

cellulite

cut while shaving

thumb sucking

toilet training

splinter

Blackheads

A pierced earlobe ripped through when caught by a hairbrush (15 years earlier!)

Tattoo removal (on Christmas Day, of course)

"I think I have dandruff, I need an antibiotic."

The guy w/ a fireplace poker up his rear. Said he was laying carpet and backed into it. (yeah, right!)

The guy who brought BOTH of his girlfriends in in labor, at the same time (live dangerously, die young!). That was the first they knew of each other.

The guy who needed his acne cleared up 'today' because he was going to be a rock star 'tomorrow'. (This one was really sad; he was delusional, but you can't admit somebody for thinking they are going to be a rock star - by the end of that week, he had shot 2 people, one of whom he had taken hostage and then killed himself)

Savvy

A woman stated she sat on a prescription bottle and it happened to become lodged in her rectum!

Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.

She could always say that she accidentally swallowed it and it got stuck on the way out.

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