***100+ white female in the ER for confusion***
PATIENT: Get in here!
ME: Hi, ma'am. Do you need help?
PATIENT: No. What do you want?
ME: Well, I heard you call for someone...so I came to see if you needed help.
PATIENT: No one helps me. You all have broken my cookies. MY COOKIES ARE BROKEN!
ME: Your cookies are broken?
PATIENT: I am over 5 years old. You all want me to die!
ME: We don't want that. We are here to help you.
PATIENT: Get out of here!
***I start leaving the room***
PATIENT: Get back in here, sir!
***Please note: I am NOT a sir......last time I checked in the mirror, I was female.......***
ME: Yes, ma'am?
PATIENT: Get someone here to help me.
***Here is when I call for a nurse...not knowing what to do with my 3rd year medical student experience***
NURSE: Can we help you, ma'am?
PATIENT: Get this off of me!!!
***Patient rips out IV. As the nurse goes to grab it from her, she starts whipping the nurse with the tubing***
PATIENT: That's mine!
NURSE: You have pulled your IV out. Stop hitting! We need to reattach this.
PATIENT: You aren't helping me. Someone has to help me all the time.
NURSE: We ARE helping you.
PATIENT: ***Looking to me*** Who are you?
ME: I'm the medical student.
PATIENT: Well, you're NOT doing a very good job at it!
ME: ***Already starting to laugh at the situation*** Oh man! You're the first patient that has EVER told me that! I'm sorry to hear you say that.
PATIENT: I'm going to tell your folks and they are NOT going to be happy about it!
Hahahaha!!! I have been laughing at this situation the rest of the day. First she whipped the nurse with her pulled-out IV tube, then told me I was not doing a good job. It was so humorous! Better than that, when I passed her room about 5 minutes later, she had no idea who I was! Hahaha....I will remember her for a LONG time!
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