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Strangest day
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Posted almost 5 years ago I guess this stems from the finale from Grey's Anatomy. We all saw the guy in the cement. What has been the strangest day/ case you have seen? |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago That would be the night one of my patients tried to take his eyeball out because the voices told him to. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago We had a patient come in today who believes she had an ectopic preg. even though it has been a year since her last sexual encounter, she also told our NP that she had gone to the ER and had a shot of something in her vagina. She stated that the book she was reading told her she had an ectopic preg. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago Wow The eyeball thing is certainly hard to handle. For me it is a pt that is so highly intelligent that he does himself in. At present he is in a battle with all forms of the devil from all religions. He writes in hirogliphics (sorry about the spelling) has mathmatical equations written all over that I would not even begin to understand. He believes that as long as he has sugar and pain medication he can throw out the demons from his body through his "asshole". The sad part is that while we are treating his medical condition, there is no one following his psych condition. This man is very pleasant, however he has such a fixation with his fight with the demons we worry about possible problems if he suddenly decides one of us or another pt is a demon. He has permission to ambulate the halls. No we do not have a psych unit... |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago One of my stranger days was I got a call telling me they were life flighting a man to the ER and would be sent to us in the OR for a reattachment of his hand. Since I was head of the ortho reimplant team, we got the room ready and then I went over to interview the patient. Turned out the patient was in a psych ward at a small hospital, went into the shower, broke out a piece of the shower door and proceeded to disarticulate his hand from his wrist. I asked him why he did it and he replied.......to prove I wasn't crazy. That worked didn't it? Then I asked him, didn't it hurt? He replied only the first cut did after that no..........Well 29 hours later, his hand was reattached, he was in recovery room and I went home for the next two days. Several days later, went on grand ortho surgical rounds to visit our patient, who then threatened when he got out, he would do it again.. The hand surgeon told him, you do, then I'm going to pack it up in ice and send your hand to California, where someone there would gladly have his hand and would put it to good use. He never said that again and began to co-operate with everyone. He was one of the first, successful almost fully functioning extremity done in the US. This was back in 1983 |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago My soon-to-be-mother-in-law lives with us and has Alzimers (sp~~) one day she was rubbing her eye and I ask if she was ok and she told me that she had taken her eye out and washed it and put it back in and it feels much better now..... |