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After having just killed 2 days perusing through the Emergency Medicine forums...especially the "What I learned from my patients" and "Medical Ebonics" thread, I'd like to put out this topic. Hoping to show that EyeMD's have just as many, sick, disgusting, depraved and utterly hilarious stories to share. Come on guys! We go to the ER too!
To kick it off I'll share one from my residency days....
Consults for ophtho for Children's Hospital can be pretty boring stuff, until I saw a young 17 y/o BM. At first glance you don't notice much about him, eyes aren't red, he isn't screaming in pain and generally looks comfortable. If you look closely though, you notice a small lac right above his orbital rim on his right eye.
Pt: "I was just hanging out... minding my own business when some dude that I'd never seen before in my life just came up to me and stabbed me in the eye with a pencil."
Me: ...........
Pt: "So I thought I'd come in."
Incredibly, this "dude" managed to miss this guy's globe, extra-ocular muscles, arteries and ONLY hit CN VI. CT scan verified... I always thought that "dude" had to be some viscious SOB to stab a guy in the eye socket with a pencil... would have loved to have seen it sticking out of him....
To kick it off I'll share one from my residency days....
Consults for ophtho for Children's Hospital can be pretty boring stuff, until I saw a young 17 y/o BM. At first glance you don't notice much about him, eyes aren't red, he isn't screaming in pain and generally looks comfortable. If you look closely though, you notice a small lac right above his orbital rim on his right eye.
Pt: "I was just hanging out... minding my own business when some dude that I'd never seen before in my life just came up to me and stabbed me in the eye with a pencil."
Me: ...........
Pt: "So I thought I'd come in."
Incredibly, this "dude" managed to miss this guy's globe, extra-ocular muscles, arteries and ONLY hit CN VI. CT scan verified... I always thought that "dude" had to be some viscious SOB to stab a guy in the eye socket with a pencil... would have loved to have seen it sticking out of him....