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, Acute, home health, LTC, & Psy.

A female came into our ER with thumb pain. No evidence of injury, skin intact, she left afetr 5 minutes in ER, came back 1/2 hr later, walked back out the door and then came in again asking for "mercy". We glady worked her up and she left with no narcs, just some NSAID...............she was a trip!:clown:

Specializes in ER - trauma/cardiac/burns. IV start spec.

OK Last night my son calls me from the ER. No he was not there for himself but had taken his friends bride to be and waited with her until her beau could get there. Seems they had been playing hide the salami and she popped her neck real bad. Could not move head and had blurred vision. :confused::chuckle

Turns out she tore a ligament::doh: and was put in neck brace with pain meds. I told my son to relay message that sex is not an olympic sport:lol2:

TTFN:yeah:

Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.
OK Last night my son calls me from the ER. No he was not there for himself but had taken his friends bride to be and waited with her until her beau could get there. Seems they had been playing hide the salami and she popped her neck real bad. Could not move head and had blurred vision. :confused::chuckle

Turns out she tore a ligament::doh: and was put in neck brace with pain meds. I told my son to relay message that sex is not an olympic sport:lol2:

TTFN:yeah:

If your son was able to do all this without rolling about the floor laughing, he's a good man!!

Where was the prospective groom? Or was he incapacitated, rolling about the floor laughing??

:chuckle

OMG Your nurse manager sounds worse than the one we had and I never imagined that possible. Please tell me that she did not leave and drive home with that medication onboard with small children.

my thought as well.....was wondering why social services wasnt called for endangerment.....from the drive in....

Three girls were clubbing and one lifted an acrylic and called rescue to bring her to the ER. When she got there she was PO'd Because she was sent to triage:nono:

Specializes in ED.
Arrived via ambulance, Mild Headache 3 hour duration, hadnt tried any otc drugs. Bet he had a real headache when he got the er and ambulance bill :chuckle

Nah, cause in my er the person probably won't even look at the bill let alone pay it.:banghead:

Specializes in Hospice, ER.
Nah, cause in my er the person probably won't even look at the bill let alone pay it.:banghead:

That's for sure! They probably throw away the unopened bill, if they even gave the right address or haven't moved.

Specializes in ED, Ortho, LTC.

I recently had an 18 y.o. female come in via EMS. She had been seen several days before and given a script for Cipro for a UTI. She got it filled at the pharmacy and when she got home, realized the cap had a crack in it. She didn't think she should take it, so came back to the ED for a new script.

Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Critical Care Nursing.

today i had a mom bring her infant to the nasty dirty germ infested ER for get this... MILD diaper rash!!! i wanted to scream at her like "look lady, look at this huge rack of people waiting for rooms, half of them are probably as dumb as you, holding p the truely SICK people, go get some desitin and be gone! but of course.. nope.. cant do that.... only in my dreams lol :)

I recently had an 18 y.o. female come in via EMS. She had been seen several days before and given a script for Cipro for a UTI. She got it filled at the pharmacy and when she got home, realized the cap had a crack in it. She didn't think she should take it, so came back to the ED for a new script.

She should have taken it back to the pharmacy. We would have replaced the cap, and maybe even the drug itself (nobody takes Cipro for fun) if there was any question about its safety.

What are some people thinking?

Specializes in Psych.

I went to the ER in March, felt pretty stupid once I left. I'd been experiencing a drug reaction to Trileptal. Had a macular rash that was raised pretty much over my entire body. Came down with in on a Sat and took diphenhydramine OTC and diphenhydramine cream with no improvement. Even started getting a little itchy in my mouth by Monday. By Tues I couldnt stand it anymore and went to my PCP. She dx'd actue drug reaction dermatitis and wrote me an rx for a prednisone taper. Well I took the first pred and SWORE to god that my mouth was becoming much itchier than it had been and it felt like my lips might be swelling. No problems breathing. I made DH take me to ER and was pretty much seen right away. They looked me over, basically said I was fine and to d/c the pred. I had already taken a diphenhydramine 2 hrs earlier so they gave me some Zantac too. I was in and out in an hour and a nice bill to show for it. I felt REALLY silly even going in there. It took another 2 weeks for the rash to subside comepletely.

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