Only if you want to laugh...

[J Eddington]

do you go to this forum. The thread is by medical students about time in the ER. The thread is called " Things I learned from my Patients". I have reached the point where I can't laugh any more and I am only on page 5 this is the best ab workout I have had in a long time.
Things I Learn From My Patients | Emergency Medicine | Student Doctor Network

here is one

When transported by EMS for syncopal episode after drinking a case of beer with your buddies, don't keep bothering the doctor about when you are going to be discharged. Especially when the reason you want to leave so bad is because you drive an 18-wheeler and you have to be in Texas by midnight. Your doc will begin inventing reasons to admit you.

[Cajungaltx]

I have this place book marked for those days that I truly... TRULY need an undeniable, can't stop, kind of laughter to pick up my day...It's hilarious...and disgusting....

[dixonduke]

Thanks for the link......

[J Eddington]

Originally Posted by Cajungaltx

I have this place book marked for those days that I truly... TRULY need an undeniable, can't stop, kind of laughter to pick up my day...It's hilarious...and disgusting....

I should have known you knew about it!

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Someone posted a link here to this site about a year ago or so, it is funny. Amazing what people will do to their bodies.

[L Stegall]

Oh. My. God. I got through 3 pages. Cannot wait to read more later. Hilarious and now making me appreciate my day job more and more.

[LWimages]

LOL... My favorite is this one:

Oh if you come in with a salsa jar in your rectum, don't give the staff a fruit cake as a thank you present.

[carrbowl]

uh..dry ice and boiling water...do people know that they have nerves in their bodies?? holy cow...what are they thinking??

[shutterfire]

This is OK for new residents but after being an ER nurse for 20 years I have stories oh so many stories that could curl your hair or make you vomit. True Story: I was working triage a few years ago when this middle aged man checked into the ER with the complaint "my penis turned orange'. Kid you not, this dude had to be drunk and high but did not seem that way so obviously you start the triage process bp/pulse/pulse oximetry and the questions.

1. start with the complaint: When did you notice that your penis turned orange? Oh tonight.
2. How long ago did this happen? about 2 hours ago
3. Is there pain, swelling, or discomfort? No pain, no discomfort, there is some swelling.
4. What were you doing when this occurred? I was eating Cheeto's and watching porn.

It was really difficult not to laugh or give him the Darwin award for the year! So when I brought him back to the room closed the door and put the chart in the rack for the physician to see. She asked what was wrong with him and that she needed a male escort to examine his complaint. I just couldn't resist so I said " He has an acute case of cheetosis".


Or when I had this poor, Older woman with the complaint of Vaginal discharge.
So I ask what the problem is this evening and she starts describing in detail the consistency, color, odor of this discharge but her primary reason for coming in was that it was in her words" It was itch-en, and itch-en, and itch-en so bad that I took my top plate out to scratch it, it is so bad." I said OK and happen to notice after she said top plate that she had both sets of dentures in her mouth. I kept cool and collected even though a little vomit came up to the back of my throat because I couldn't keep from staring at her teeth and looking for a hair.