man candy saturday

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Its Christmas at the candy store

I've been working more lately.  Picking up shifts.  Son of Madness is in college.  Thus the sparse blog postings.

Why is it that working an 8 hour shift, especially a 7-3 seems to fly by?  I like it.

There is the usual tomfoolery going on in the ER like always. There are stomach bugs going around.  Of course the non-copers among us run to the ER at the first sign of nausea.  Like the guy who came in and cried and whined while 3 of us tried to get an IV in.  No success.  I mean seriously dude, if you are going to come in for a frickin' stomach virus this is what you are going to go through...you shoulda stayed home.  You'll get no sympathy from us.

Here's a question for the ages: Why is the BLUE HELL do we have to put an IV in every Tom, Dick and Susie that comes in with one episode of womiting or a wittle tummy ache.  ODT Zofran was invented for a reason guys.  No one under the age of 60 should get an IV for a virus unless they have at least 10 underlying diseases.  Thank you.  And they certainly don't need Dilaudid for their tummy ache.  Are you frickin' kiddin' me?????

So as you probably already noted, its business as usual at the candy store. Only difference these days are the two pathetic Charlie Brown christmas trees in the lobby that are decked out in a "neutral holiday hospital approved" fashion of beige and tan. Real festive...
 How many bulbs do you think will be left on December 26th?  Fa la la.


Oh BTW RIP Mandella

yup

Dear Person on Probation:

I hate to break this to you, but none of the staff or other patients in the emergency care about your probation officer problems.  We do not care to hear you talk at the top of your lungs to your PO about how you will probably have to go back to jail.  You are an idiot.

Sincerely,

the emergency department staff and patients

putting the G in ghetto

Okay here's a new one.  I think I saw a drug sale go down in our ER lobby.

So its a pretty nice evening. I'm at the triage desk. There is a guy sitting in the lobby - acquaintance or something of one of the patients.  Here comes an inpatient rolling an IV pole. He goes over to the guy sitting in the lobby  I swear I saw I saw money change hands.

Earlier the guy with the IV pole had come up to the triage desk asking for a pass for his wife to get out of the parking ramp.  So he's probably buying dope to give to her or they are gonna use dope together outside.  Am I being paranoid?  Probably not.

Oh BTW, it turns out the guy sitting in the lobby (probable drug seller) is with another guy who is here trying to get narcs for his back pain. He is busted for using a false name. He was probably there to get more drugs to sell

The shit that goes down our ghetto ER.