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The other evening it was “relatively slow” (meaning we were only about 5 patients behind) and several of us (RN’s, PA’s, Doc’s. and Techs) were sitting around in the Docs’ charting area making typically inappropriate comments to each other when suddenly, one of the PA’s was like “well, yeah, I agree with that…..wait, WTF, [...]
I always feel bad when I see a child (usually about toddler age) who initially seems to really like me. They smile at me, giggle, hand me things (to which I say “Thank you”), play peek-a-boo, etc. They let me listen to their lungs, look in their ears, press on their bellies (which makes [...]
When people come in with complaints of “double vision”, I find it is almost always bull. It rarely really is true diplopia – it is 99% of the time “blurred” vision or something else nonspecific. True double vision is worrisome. It implies a problem with the muscles that move the eye – causing one [...]
OK, a little common sense advice here. Don’t treat your deep finger laceration (caused by a knife that you were cutting meat with) by grabbing one of your unsmoked Lucky Strikes and snuffing the tobacco into the wound to staunch the bleeding. It’s [...]
Nurse Catheter: “Hey ERP, I can’t clear the guy’s foley in room 3, can you help me?” Me: “Don’t worry Nurse Catheter, I will show you how to irrigate a foley properly.” (as I start to squirt sterile water in with a 60 cc Toomey Syringe) Nurse Splatter : “I don’t know, be careful. Are you [...]
The triage note of a young woman stated: “I can’t go to the bathroom because I had anal sex last night and all I am passing now are big, bloody chunks”. OK, guys I said, we gotta draw straws or do some rock paper scissors for this one…… Although in retrospect, the most embarrassing moment was [...] I was surfing the web today ( I randomly have a bunch of days off in prep for my painful Thanksgiving weekend shifts), watching racing videos (I Love cars and racing -especially road racing and drag racing) and I found this video. This dood (in Nurse K-speak), is so lucky I bet he never even [...] |
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