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 ?

Where do I start.

I broke my glasses

I slipped in the shower and my 3 y.o grabbed the shower rod and the end is stuck in my rectum. ( yeah that's how it happened, that's the ticket)

I was scratching my "roids" with a cresent wrench and slipped on the bathroom rug.. ("I now have a colostomy )

I'm having guppies. ( and a psych consult)

I have a sunburn ( not even that bad)

There are so many to mention, I'm just to tired to sit here for hours.

Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

As far as EMS refusing transport, all the studies I've seen have too high of rates of missing a critical diagnosis. The consensus is that EMS are very well trained to deal with acute and urgent situations, but not trained enough in differential diagnosis (and the subtleties involved). (The UNM study).

England had a large study done on nurses and EMS (at different times) doing a telephone triage to see if dispatching an ambulance was really needed, but it took as long to the history as it would for the rig to get there most of the time. And again, too many undertriages.

Seems like a hangnail complaint would be a no brainer though! [bANANA]its a crazy world out there![/bANANA]

I am an ob nurse so I had a patient come to the ob triage with a complaint of her water broke. Her husband was with her and he asked me if the swelling in her ankles could be because her water was leaking and was running down into her ankles !!!!!!!:lol2: :uhoh3:

Specializes in CCU/ER.

At 3:30am the other night, I triaged a beautiful, smiling, chunky baby girl. Parents complaint? The baby got upset about something. She cried really really hard--until her face got bright red, and her eyelids even got red. So they rushed her right to the ER!

:lol2:

Specializes in Med-Surg, Tele, Psych.
I am an ob nurse so I had a patient come to the ob triage with a complaint of her water broke. Her husband was with her and he asked me if the swelling in her ankles could be because her water was leaking and was running down into her ankles !!!!!!!:lol2: :uhoh3:

:uhoh3: HUH???? I can't even laugh at that one.... in fact, I'm speechless.

I am an ob nurse so I had a patient come to the ob triage with a complaint of her water broke. Her husband was with her and he asked me if the swelling in her ankles could be because her water was leaking and was running down into her ankles !!!!!!!:lol2: :uhoh3:

I swear......sometimes people just amaze me at how dumb they are.

I mean, I know I say dumb things sometimes, that make me wanna go :smackingf , but there are people in this world that just do not have a clue.

Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.
I am an ob nurse so I had a patient come to the ob triage with a complaint of her water broke. Her husband was with her and he asked me if the swelling in her ankles could be because her water was leaking and was running down into her ankles !!!!!!!:lol2: :uhoh3:

I've had some not so dumb people ask me questions like this; as I'm trying to figure out how to educate them, I'll just be standing there.... Finally, I just come up with, "Umm, no".

There's no way you can capsulate all the health education they shoulda got in school into 25 words or less.

Specializes in A&E (ER) and Primary Care.

In A&E (UK) 2am, a young lad comes in with foreign body in the orifice, he had put his mobile phone on vibrate, when we eventually pulled it out there was only one missed call,:Melody:

Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

Fran,

That "only one missed call" really made me laugh!:lol2:

In A&E (UK) 2am, a young lad comes in with foreign body in the orifice, he had put his mobile phone on vibrate, when we eventually pulled it out there was only one missed call,:Melody:

Hope he had a callback feature on his phone. Wonder how he would explain the missed phone call... especially if it was someone like his boss.

:rotfl:

Specializes in A&E (ER) and Primary Care.
In A&E (UK) 2am, a young lad comes in with foreign body in the orifice, he had put his mobile phone on vibrate, when we eventually pulled it out there was only one missed call,:Melody:

All the staff in A&E at the time wanted to get his mobile number, so we could give him a BUZZ, it kept us all buzzing all night. (We never did ring him).

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I had a mother bring her teenage son because he was tired. I ask her if he had tired sleeping. Guess what the doctor ask her the same thing. D/C instruction - Sleep. :uhoh3:

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