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Well on the internet it says that drinking bleach water will rid my body of toxins...ohh are those birkenstocks!
-Mike
-Mike
Hey, I'm a former EMT and love this thread. Are there any similar that you guys know of for Truck crews? I have a couple to share, but not being an ED worker not sure if I can post them here.
If I'm not mistaken, there are quite a few stories on this thread from EMTs, paramedics, etc., some of whom are now med students or doctors. Another great thread good for some much-needed laughter and some Ewww's is "Funniest Chief Complaints." I believe it's in the Interns area.
BTW...I just noticed (and corrected) a mistake I made regarding the name of the other thread. It's "Craziest Trauma" here in the Emergency Medicine area, not "Funniest Chief Complaints." That's what I get for not checking my facts before saving a post.
I am excited to learn that I have a talent! I'm going to recommend to the city that a statue of myself be placed in front of the library with an engraved plaque.
I feel soo unclean after reading that.
I'll be back after a shower and a brain scrub.
-Mike
Apparently it is possible to have multiple piercings, tattoo's, and even tattoo's inside your mouth yet still be afraid of needles.
I think we had a discussion of this in an earlier part of a thread with another similar case. It isn't fear of needles, but rather the feeling of helplessness which I believe causes this. When you are getting a tatoo or a piercing you are in control of the situation whereas when you are sick you are not in control. I don't think it is a fear of needles so much of the lack of control and the fact that needing help makes them feel less macho then before. Also, if they are in general pain from whatever such reason they are in there for perhaps though they may make it seem like it is the needle maybe it is general pain they are feeling that makes them act weird. But I do sincerely believe that lack of being in control of the situation and feeling less macho makes people act weird in situations like this in which they wouldn't normally when.
Its still funny as ****. I dont care who you are, its funny. I really think you could sell some of the stuff that we see in the ER. Or at least sell admission for people to come and watch because some of the patients we get are just priceless.
Definitely not disagreeing with you there. It would be cool to see a lot of ER docs join together to collaborate on a book with their funniest and/or craziest moments in the ER somewhat like this thread where people are sharing experiences they've had in the ER but all compiled in a book.
I would definitely buy that book in a heartbeat and read it because some of the craziest yet in its own perverse way funniest things I've read occurring in medicine seem to occur in this department.
There already is such a book---Emergency. It uses contributions from doctors and nurses.
There already is such a book---Emergency. It uses contributions from doctors and nurses.
Later I learned that you are never too old for chemo. I saw a 98 year old demented lady with metastatic breast cancer with no PO intake for a week secondary to nausea from her chemo. I swear if they found a tumor on King Tut's mummy you could find an oncologist to give him chemo. Later when his kidney's were found to be non-functional you could find someone to dialyze him too.
See...this is why someone needs to invent "brain bleach" Some things once seen/heard/read cannot be unseen/unheard/unread
See...this is why someone needs to invent "brain bleach" Some things once seen/heard/read cannot be unseen/unheard/unread
Oh, and I learned from House MD that it's never lupus.
Where the fourth season of "It's never lupus!" starts 9/25.
I shall be watching!
Thats just nuts!
-Mike
Where the fourth season of "It's never lupus!" starts 9/25.
I shall be watching!
edit: zomg, my 666th post... how appropriate
Thats just nuts!
-Mike
Apparently House never did PBL.
by all means, tell me up front that you'll be leaving AMA in the morning (at the latest) - to go to your sister's funeral.
Oh, I bet regular bleach would cross the Blood-Brain Barrier and do the job just fine. All you need to do is drink it, better yet, go with the straight IV push.
Now of course I'm going to hear 3 stories of how people did just that and feel horrible.
Obviously not.
In PBL, the diagnosis is always either SLE, pheochromocytoma or atrial myxoma.
My, how I don't miss my old PBL days.
Take care,
Jeff
I actually got so fed up w/ a patient the other night who wanted to leave AMA that I finally asked the question I've wanted to since I started this..."if you don't want to be in the hospital, why did you come to the hospital?" He shut up and stayed for a couple of days (before signing out AMA).
What would hurt more? Drinking Drano or HCl?
The worst was a lady who was on a Venturi mask at home and decided she just HAD to have a cigarette. She pulled the mask off to one side and *FOOOM!* Next thing you know.....she's on her back in the ED gasping for air. Burned flesh, hair and melted plastic......*shudders* The smell made me nauseous. The one type of ICU I will not work in is a burn unit.
CC: "I took too much vicodin"
Pt states she was prescribed vicodin for a toothache, took one tablet when she woke up and is NOT SURE if she took a second tablet an hour later when she still had pain. In total she was only sure that she took ONE. She called poison control and they told her liver failure was a side effect so she rushed to the ER to have her liver checked. needless to say she wasted a bed for about an hour while we waited for her useless LFTs, that she insisted on having.
This thread is hilarious; I look forward to EM!
The following isn't as funny as most of the situations on this thread but I'll share a past opt exp:
I learned that if your patient has to go to the bathroom, it's perfectly ok for him to pull down his pants, in the exam room, and pee in your trash can. Luckily, he was polite enough to say, "Oooooookkkkkk honey, I"m all finshed in here...you can come in now!"
He could of at least washed his hands!