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Please Don’tThere is nothing worse than when you walk in to see a patient, hoping for a quick encounter and the person answers your directed question (like “How long have you been having dizziness?”) with “W – W -W-E-E-E-L-L-L -L , Doctor, let me start from the beginning……” “NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!” You emerge 20 minutes later, massively behind, and having listened to 18 minutes of crap you did not need to hear in order to make a treatment plan. December 24th, 2009 | Category: Annoying
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And what we get over here is the “Well, just to let you understand……” followed by years and years of history. Just f’ing tell me, I will understand, thats why I went to university.
Or when they had you the notebook tracking 65 years of symptoms on a day-to-day basis.
I think your patient might have been my brother….
Your patient sounds like my mother.
I think that person comes to my ER on a regular basis.
How about, “NO, tell me about your recent symptoms” and let me figure out the rest….
have you had any Diarrhea? “Yes, 3 years ago I had it for 2 days and it went away on its own.”
How about we talk about the more recent events that may have lead up to your visit today in the ER????? “PLEASE”
May I be the voice of dissent here? Sometimes I like listening to people rant on about thier medical histories from the days of yore because it is a most perfect opportunity to sit down and catch a power nap
Sadly this only works when there are no other patients to be seen.
Even asking, “What symptoms are you having TODAY?” elicits a walk down memory lane. Sheesh.
ahhh, shoot me now! I hate when they do that!
ahh yes the medical history predating the dinosaur but ask them about their medicine and it’s reduced to 30 seconds of the white one is for my heart and the blue one is for something but I forgot etc….it’s in you records, you look them up.
Ahhhh, the ‘colored’ pills. We call that ‘trivia night in the ER’
Welcome to the world of non-ER doc!:-)