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 ?

[Dragonnurse1, ASN, RN]

oh my..another memory jolt:thnkg:

We had a New York trained emergency Doc, you know the kind, carnage, mayhem and he is happy:anpom: However in our ER at night only the really dumb ones come out to play. A real fashion statement:eek:, and his girlfriend came in at 4AM. She wanted a pregnacy test but he had a zipper glued in his hair. A 6 inch zipper and it was open. Phil walked in the room and is his best New York accent ask the dude why he had a zipper in his hair. The kid said he did not have a problem :nono:and his girl needed a pg test. Good old Phil - went all caveman on them:sasq: Informed the couple that we did not do pg test unless there was a problem and the only problem he saw was the zipper, he reached out and yanked the zipper closed and while the idiot was rolling on the bed in pain:vlin: offered to remove said zipper:grn: They left with instructions to go to local STD clinic in AM. I must say the rest of us had to get over the shock and then we partied.

:dzed::omy::clpty:

Later:smiletea:

[erinbethg]

A girl once came in because she thought it was time her IUD came out. I can't believe the doc did it!

[navynurse06]

I've had several parents that brought their babies in b/c they just won't stop crying. no fever, no n/v/d. nothing....just wont stop crying. :smackingf

[Jaguar Boy]

the whole culture of child marriage ...

yes...sigh, so sad...and that child marriage happens on this side of the world too...just not legally.

here's one:

young person comes in to er because they punched someone and their hand now hurts...hmmm...

[Dragonnurse1, ASN, RN]

A girl once came in because she thought it was time her IUD came out. I can't believe the doc did it!

:clpty:

That was great but I think the "lost" cucumber was even better. After Doc finally fished out the remaining vegetable he wrote d'c orders - Oil and vinager douche, no more salad sex. :smackingf

Later

:smiletea:

[rnmomtobe2010]

Gum stuck in long blond (bleached) hair. The doctor wrote a recommendation on an order sheet to a cosmetologist.

[1HOTERMAMA]

"Lice"

[1HOTERMAMA]

I can't believe that I almost forgot this one.

A woman had just been released from the local detention center for prostitution and came to the ER stating that just before she was arrested she shoved a wad of $$ up her lady parts so that it would not be taken by the police. She wanted us to retrieve it for her. She also said that she had a dark colored d/c. No $$ was found. She tried to acuse us of taking it. :idntdt::rotfl::chuckle:nono:

[gs1976]

We had a guy come in the other night because he ran his foot over with a shopping cart....He did it at 1400hrs, and came into the ER at 0200 that night/next morning....Sad thing is, he was a bigger guy, the kind that you would avoid in a dark alley....Couldn't quite believe it, but it happens I guess

[JBudd, MSN]

3 week old, cried for 3 hours (did you burp her?). Stopped crying and fell asleep when got in the car and drove to the hospital. Checked in anyway.

Those poor first time moms! What ever happened to the grandmas, aunts, sisters and friends who taught all of us how to raise our kids? Didn't you ever babysit, have siblings, volunteer in the church nursery? Or even read some books before you delivered?

[SteffersRN87, BSN, RN]

Every time I see my paycheck and all the money that goes towards taxes, I can't help but think of all the dingbats using up our tax dollars for ER visits. Get a PCP. The most ridiculous... a high class Barbie type broke off her artificial nail taking half of the real nail with it, no blood, came into the ER by ambulance...

[rph3664]

Lost vibrator.

IN lady parts.

Uhhhhh, there's only one route.........