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In general, we are supposed to listen to our spouses. We should entertain their ideas and opinions, offering input when appropriate. We should not interrupt, overly impose our views, or give each other grief. However there are times you have to just tell your spouse to shut the hell up and do what you gotta do. The [...] For the uninitiated, the term “crayzee” is coined by the late blogger extraordianaire but still tweeter Nurse K. Basically it means that someone is just a “kook”, “nutjob”, or very weird person with bizarre, demanding, and or annoying characteristics. They try your patience endlessly when they show up in the ER. Unfortunately, I would [...] The other day we were distributed a flyer by the recent police department alerting us to a missing person. Often these are Alzheimer’s patients or runaway children. This one was of a 40 year old woman who appeared relatively normal but with a slightly bizarre bowl haircut and a partial smile. She had evidently disappeared from an [...] How does one (i.e. a nursing home RN or MD) expect a 97 year old, demented and barely mobile patient to commit suicide? I guess she could fling herself out of the bed or get a hold of a knife and slash her wrists but hello, that is why you have been giving her Risperdal, Atvian, [...]
Quick joke: What did the Egyptian Psychiatrist say to the man standing in the river? You’re in denial. Ba bump! Anyway, this lady recently came in for a totally unrelated problem – but the first thing anyone with functional eyes noticed is this woman in her [...]
The other day an elderly man showed up at our hospital via bizarre circumstances. Riding his Jazzy electric chair, he was found charging it in the outpatient waiting area of the hospital. He had no interest in going to the ER but soon we realised we had to see him. He had only [...] |
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