Free advice to hospital users everywhere:
1) Do not leave an inpatient unit before the sheriff comes to get your butt because you are court ordered to go to detox upon discharge and then come back the next day to the same hospital's ER to be seen. Can you say I AM A DUMBASS!
2) Don't keep coming back for the same problem thinking that somehow we are going to find a magical new diagnosis that you can pin your destiny on.
3)Come in bawling like a baby (literally) because your toe hurts and at the end of your visit, after you have been given your discharge paperwork, ask for a script for Vicodin and some footies. Ah no, on both counts fool.
4)Fall down at your apartment building at 10 am because you are already so drunk and then be pissed at us that you were brought here.
5) Call me on the phone and tell me that you were told to come to the ER and how do you get there, where do you park and that you are leaving in ten minutes. If you can ask all these questions, you don't need to come...
6) If you are an office doc - send your patient having chest pain and shortness of breath in her own car with a copy of her EKG that shows EKG changes and then write on the EKG - no EKG available for comparison....do you like being sued doctor?!!
Yes she's back - the ER nurse from hell!
3 comments:
#6 Sounds like Mother ER Tech Dude her doc had her drive to the ED with chest pain and SOB. She was in heart failure due to an interaction between medications.
Sometimes I wonder if the PCP's think about what they're doing.
Kudos! Very informative article, keep up the good works! More power
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