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Whoa, "joie-de-mourir." Tish, that's french... 😉
Seriously, is that the oppostive of joie-de-vivre?
Seriously, is that the oppostive of joie-de-vivre?
strega42 said:Just wanted to add one from a medical transcriptionist...
When you are diagnosed with fibromyalgia and IDDM, and you are out of methadone, by all means don't bother your doctor. Just dissolve your muscle relaxants in tap water, and inject them with your insulin needles.
Certainly the ER docs, pulmonologist, cardiologist, and infectious disease specialists will be astounded by this new method of pain relief.
Malaise-de-vivre?Febrifuge said:Whoa, "joie-de-mourir." Tish, that's french... 😉
Seriously, is that the oppostive of joie-de-vivre?
tiredmom said:When your spleen "ruptures while you were just sitting on a bar stool, minding your own business" and you are writhing in pain, confessing to all your outstanding warrants, don't get mad and threaten the doc on call seeing you
Anuwolf said:Wow you guys are the cure for depression! Some of theses stories are extremely funny!
Why don't you guys (The true ER docs/nurses on here) create a booklet with theses true funny stories and sell it and use the money to help out the cost of this site? I would buy it in a heart beat! (Just please accept paypal!) Even know I'm not a doc or nurse. It would be my way of supporting this awesome site.
deuist said:A book about our experiences would be very funny. Unfortunately, I don't think that it will happen for three reasons:
1. The SDN is a non-profit website. It already generates more than enough revenue from advertisements and donations. The webmaster is trying to come up with ways to use the excess funds.
2. There is a book called Emergency which gives many of the same user-submitted stories. Crazy patients aren't unique to just our hospitals.
3. Some of the stories from this website have already been published. I have a doctor calendar that tells a new joke or tale every day. Some of the material is pulled and credited right off of here.
HIANMI said:1. Is there any chance you could be pregnant?
EctopicFetus said:Yeah the is there any chance you are pregnant is my favorite as well because regardless of the answer they are getting a UCG. Of course at the crap hole im doing my sub-i I had a 73 y/o that the cath lab thought needed a ucg.. Go figure what do i know I am just an m4.
Anuwolf said:Hi there Deuist.
I understand that SDN is a non profit website. We could use the money for more bandwidth, etc. more the better. Since this site gets plenty of hits off of the advertisement (according to you) and the webmaster is wanting to come up a way of using the excess funds. Why not make this community bigger by developing a Non profit org that helps people to get medical care? We can use the extra money to help those who cannot afford medical/denture care, just a thought.
Thank you for recommending me this book. I will search around for this book.
EctopicFetus said:How about a scholarship where the winner pledges to give back $1000/yr to SDN once they have completed all training. Over time it could pay for itself.
I meant the scholarship winners... not you... Assuming the scholie was a full ridedeuist said:I already donate enough money to SDN.
Lev is right. This is a rather humorous thread. But, once you are in Practice, especially if you have your own patients, rather than just those who wander into the ED, a little Empathy for those in pain goes a long way.Quote:
Originally Posted by edinOH
A couple of things I learned yesterday...
Chest tubes apparently hurt a hell of a lot less than I&D of a 4 cm abscess on your ass. This 26 yo guy was crying like a baby from the minute the betadine touched his ass. It only got worse with the lido and the knife. What a puss.
I wouldn't discredit abscesses so quickly as minor. I had one on my shoulder that got so bad I couldn't even bear the pain of shirt in contact with it one morning and therefore went to a clinic to get it drained. The actual drainage (even with lido) was the worst pain I've ever experienced, and I had to get the FP to stop halfway through to give me a breather as I almost passed out due to that pain. Then again, I never made a peep though through the whole thing; just shut my eyes, clenched my jaw, and waited for it to be over.
Or Advanced Maternal Age, in OB. (Meaning any pregnant woman over the age of 35.)AMA is against medical advice.. which is when someone leaves when a doc thinks they need to stay..
Doc Zuzu said:Lev is right. This is a rather humorous thread. But, once you are in Practice, especially if you have your own patients, rather than just those who wander into the ED, a little Empathy for those in pain goes a long way.
Not all people in pain have caused their own damage to their Mu receptors. Pain itself can do this. Please, let's not forget we are treating human beings. Even if they have more tattoos than teeth...... 🙂 They are still humans. That's why we went into this field. Right?
Doc Zuzu said:Lev is right. This is a rather humorous thread. But, once you are in Practice, especially if you have your own patients, rather than just those who wander into the ED, a little Empathy for those in pain goes a long way.
Not all people in pain have caused their own damage to their Mu receptors. Pain itself can do this. Please, let's not forget we are treating human beings. Even if they have more tattoos than teeth...... 🙂 They are still humans. That's why we went into this field. Right?
Doc Zuzu said:Or Advanced Maternal Age, in OB. (Meaning any pregnant woman over the age of 35.)
Doc Zulu said:Lev is right. This is a rather humorous thread. But, once you are in Practice, especially if you have your own patients, rather than just those who wander into the ED, a little Empathy for those in pain goes a long way.
Not all people in pain have caused their own damage to their Mu receptors. Pain itself can do this. Please, let's not forget we are treating human beings. Even if they have more tattoos than teeth...... They are still humans. That's why we went into this field. Right?
For the record, mine was done at my family physician's office, and I don't have hypersensitized Mu receptors as far as I'm concerned. I've taken what other people would consider "painful" experiences on many occasions; for example, breaking bones, dislocating my finger, etc, which weren't as painful as that drainage. Sometimes, certain things can be more painful than would normally be expected, and this was probably one of those times.docB said:The thing about abscesses in the ED is that the majority of the ones I I&D are on people who have hypersensitized their Mu receptors so horribly painful to them is regular life to the rest of us. Regular abscesses on normal people can be done at a PMD's office or urgent care.
EctopicFetus said:Yeah there was a study done and it showed that the most painful procedure done on males in the hospitals is a foley insertion. Obviously other things would hurt more but we end up giving them pain meds and we dont for foleys... just a thought..
See, this is the type of problem that drives us crazy and clogs the ER. If your wife has ongoing problems with exacerbations of her chronic diseases then her PMD should be dealing with this stuff. If she does get sick enough to merit an ER visit I'm not playing "stump the doctor" with anyone. I'm getting the basic stuff going and calling the PMD to admit and work it out. The ER is not the place to deal with the 1:180K zebra reaction. Having said that "potassium poisoning" should have been caught on the first test any doc would order on a vomiting diabetic. This shouldn't have required anything close to every test in the book.MeanDean said:Hello. Non-medico here; I actually came across this thread from a similar thread in the pre-pharm forum. (Non-pharm too: I'm an Rx delivery driver for a pharmacy.) Still, thought you might enjoy a bit from a 'customer' viewpoint.
See, my wife --- type 2 diabetic, some blood pressure problems --- has been chosen by the Lord to be the football in a game called "Stump The Doctors." If there's an adverse reaction to something, and it's really obscure, well... That's my wife's role in the universe: to suffer that adverse reaction.
Case in point:
Wife was getting violently ill every three weeks, like clockwork: yakking up bile, febrile, muscle weakness. Off to the ER we go. She would be held overnight, tested for this 'n' that, instructed to discontinue all meds for 72 hours, liquids only for same, then soft foods. Come back if there are still problems.
So... She'd come home, follow instructions, and be just fine. Would contact her GP and told to continue with her normal meds regimen. 2½ weeks later, back to the ER.
After about six months of this gig, she happened to draw the same ER doc she'd seen the first time; he remembered her. After looking at her recent history, he instructed the lab to test for everything, no matter how unlikely. By gum, test for prostate cancer: test for everything and anything.
The result: my wife had potassium poisoning. 😕
Buh-hunh? It took some work, but they finally figured it out:
It was her BP medication. A side effect so rare it wasn't even indexed was the cause. Apparently, the BP med prevented her body from correctly processing potassium in her blood stream. The potassium would build and build, until it hit a critical mass and she'd get sick. This reaction would only occur in 1 of 180,000 patients, which meant it never got mentioned in the normal info sent out.
So yeah, that's my wife's role in this existence: Stump The Doctors. It's her role to keep y'all on your toes, even though she really wishes it wasn't. 🙄
sddoc said:OK, here's a fun one.
If you decide to build a pipe bomb, never try to weld the cap on after the gunpowder is inside the pipe. If you do, don't be surprised if you get an explosion a little sooner than you had anticipated. 😱
At least the guy wore a welder's mask and limited his injuries to his torso. Safety first. That's what I always say! 🙄
That graphic picture quote just made me laugh. It's seems so ironic to me.Anuwolf said:Some people aren't that lucky and manage to blow up couple of fingers 🙁
http://nobombs.net/brucel/Explosiveinjury5.html take a look (WARNING! GRAPHIC picture)
MirrorTodd said:Sorry man, I try to avoid looking at trauma as much as possible. Seen enough of it in real life. That graphic pic warning just made me laugh cuz ED's get a lot of trauma, so it seems ironic to me that there needs to be a warning about graphic stuff on the Emergency medicine forum.
Never work for Kaiser Permanente, DocB: You're blessed with too much common sense. IMHO, engaging in such rationality will only gum up the sprockets at a Kaiser facility. 😀docB said:See, this is the type of problem that drives us crazy and clogs the ER. If your wife has ongoing problems with exacerbations of her chronic diseases then her PMD should be dealing with this stuff. If she does get sick enough to merit an ER visit I'm not playing "stump the doctor" with anyone. I'm getting the basic stuff going and calling the PMD to admit and work it out. The ER is not the place to deal with the 1:180K zebra reaction. Having said that "potassium poisoning" should have been caught on the first test any doc would order on a vomiting diabetic. This shouldn't have required anything close to every test in the book.
docB said:Don't come to the ER to ask a doctor about penis enlargement. Just don't.
How do you know that this won't make human blood unpaletable to the vampires. I think you're being overly judgemental. 😉RoryJarrah said:After downing a bottle of lithium and a bottle of risperdol telling the doctor, "I wasn't trying to kill myself - I was just trying to make my blood taste bad so the vampires wouldn't eat me." is not going to get you out of a trip to the psych ward. In fact, it will probably get you locked in a higher security ward than otherwise would have been the case.
docB said:How do you know that this won't make human blood unpaletable to the vampires. I think you're being overly judgemental. 😉
RoryJarrah said:After downing a bottle of lithium and a bottle of risperdol telling the doctor, "I wasn't trying to kill myself - I was just trying to make my blood taste bad so the vampires wouldn't eat me." is not going to get you out of a trip to the psych ward. In fact, it will probably get you locked in a higher security ward than otherwise would have been the case.
blake2go said:👎 👎 Being that you are so heartless,why did you not just kill her yourself? Poor mixed up KID wanting to die,failed, and had to meet you,no doubt people like you,are the reason she wished to leave in the first place. Perhaps with your weapons no how,you might take yourself out and then We would not have to deal with you!
Apollyon said:If you are 21, and had a head-on MVC with no restraints or airbag, and bent/broke the steering wheel, and you remember nothing since being at the Waffle House at 0400, since you are stoned on pot, and have only a non-displaced nasal fracture (without septal hematoma) and a minimal tongue lac to show for the whole thing, don't fret over 1. the needle for anesthesia or 2. the two Vicryl sutures I put in your tongue, as far as cosmesis goes. Face it, if you get dumped 'cause your tongue has a scar on it, she ain't worth it.
I did learn today, though, "a piece of corn" (if the tongue lac is bigger than that, you sew it). Since this guy's lac was 2/ to biting his tongue, he had to have his tongue protruded when this occurred, and I can only picture this dude reclining, enjoying his buzz, with his tongued sticking out (?), until the accident.
mysophobe said:Bear. Bare means naked or lacking the normal furnishings.