An emergency response nurse unpacks
After more than 20 years in the emergency room, one has an eye for pain. So, when a woman gets out of the ambulance unaided and walks casually through the entrance, you can assume that not every second counts. Especially if you have been back for four days? Has. In the meantime, she would have been able to go to the doctor long ago. It became even more absurd when, a few minutes later, her boyfriend arrived and drove by car.
Looks bad
We once had a patient who wanted to be completely checked-in, because he had seen an oak processionary moth during the walk in the woods. Yes, the caterpillars can trigger violent allergic reactions. But not if you stand three meters in front of a tree and only look at the creature!
Handmade problem
One of my absolute highlights is the nightly visit of an academic. He rang the bell and demanded a male doctor. In the patient letter, I later found out what was going on: numbness in the penis. Reason: He masturbated several times a day since leaving his wife three weeks ago. The doctor's advice: cool and spare. And for that, what comes at night in hospital ...
Free ride
Some people call an ambulance rather than a taxi. Like the guy whose toe hurt? because he had kicked his buddy in the butt. Incidentally, he mentioned that he had no car to even in theemergency department to drive. That's why he chose 112.
Really bad
Young people often run after us because of trifles. So also the newly in love couple, who was terribly bad. In my questions about the first assessment, I quickly found the cause of all evil: the chain carousel, in which they curved the whole afternoon. They wanted to have the most modern medicine? be treated ? and a yellow bill for the next day. I then told them that we are a hospital and not a doctor's office. There is no sick leave from us. But goes even further: When I pressed the two suppositories against nausea in the hand, they asked me when to get those things out again.
Can kink
What I can do without: helicopter mothers. Child bent over? Quick in theemergency department for a thorough investigation! But woe, the little pupil should go to the X-ray, then the screaming is great. So, with Mum. The evil rays. Does it have to be that way? There is certainly nothing broken !? Then I ask myself: What do you really want here then?
Mimimimimi, I'm so cold
In the night shifts, drunks are almost our permanent guests, because their friends often do not want to take care of them. Especially I can remember a girl's group, which at night at three antanzte us, directly from the Glühweinstand on the Christmas market. In tow, they had their staggering buddy. The early 20-year-olds believed he needed help because he was drunk and cold. Your preliminary diagnosis:? He is totally overcooled.? We then decided together that his bed and a hot water bottle were probably the best medicine for him.
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