Comments on: Three Winners! http://erstories.net/2008/05/three-winners/ Real Life Tales from the Emergency Room Wed, 15 May 2013 02:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: jd http://erstories.net/2008/05/three-winners/comment-page-1/#comment-1948 jd Tue, 06 May 2008 15:43:24 +0000 http://erstories.net/?p=311#comment-1948 don't bonk your head, go for a beer with collegues after shift works wonders though probly tried this tell pt at outset/ 5 mins to seemed student to start the ball rolling, few hours for ER specialist and few days or weeks to see offsite urologist don’t bonk your head, go for a beer with collegues after shift works wonders

though probly tried this tell pt at outset/ 5 mins to seemed student to start the ball rolling, few hours for ER specialist and few days or weeks to see offsite urologist

]]> By: ernurse http://erstories.net/2008/05/three-winners/comment-page-1/#comment-1924 ernurse Sun, 04 May 2008 04:42:42 +0000 http://erstories.net/?p=311#comment-1924 I vote for #3, we had a similar incident in our ED with a woman who wouldn't let her daughter be seen by a PA, a Med Student, a resident, or an intern. It had to be an attending. Well on most days we have only one or two attendings and several PAs, residents, and interns. It happened to be that we had one attending that day, and he decided to let the woman sit and wait for 4 hours. He sent in someone every half hour or so and she would send them back out and say her daughter had to be seen by an attending. Finally after 4 hours he went in and saw her, turned out she had a UTI... heh! I should say that this was a slow day and we had no need for the room to be empty, so we just kept charting "pt refuses to be seen by anyone except the attending; attending with other pts." And so on and so forth for 4 hours. I vote for #3, we had a similar incident in our ED with a woman who wouldn’t let her daughter be seen by a PA, a Med Student, a resident, or an intern. It had to be an attending. Well on most days we have only one or two attendings and several PAs, residents, and interns. It happened to be that we had one attending that day, and he decided to let the woman sit and wait for 4 hours. He sent in someone every half hour or so and she would send them back out and say her daughter had to be seen by an attending. Finally after 4 hours he went in and saw her, turned out she had a UTI… heh!

I should say that this was a slow day and we had no need for the room to be empty, so we just kept charting “pt refuses to be seen by anyone except the attending; attending with other pts.” And so on and so forth for 4 hours.

]]> By: DramaMama http://erstories.net/2008/05/three-winners/comment-page-1/#comment-1923 DramaMama Sat, 03 May 2008 17:17:45 +0000 http://erstories.net/?p=311#comment-1923 I vote for B- who would prefer the ER for their primary care? I bonk my head every single day over dealing with people such as this! I vote for B- who would prefer the ER for their primary care?
I bonk my head every single day over dealing with people such as this!

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