Giving your kid something to eat before surgery? Do you want to get him killed? Because that's how you get him killed. I mean some people are idiots, what do you say country?
Studying to be a doctor, these kinds of people are why I changed fields from general surgeon to research and finding cures instead. I love to help people but at the same time, fuck dealing with idiots like them.
I have to be really careful with anything tomato based the seeds make me very sick so most pasta sauces are out of the question for me I know of one place within 25 miles that makes a pizza I can eat because it doesn't use tomato sauce.
Dad is an OB/GYN, here is his best story:
Woman came into the office and had a terrible odor. He asked her if she had any other symptoms. She said that she felt like she was bloated when she wore tampons. Turns out she had 14 tampons in her and she was not taking them out because they were "biodegradable"-which she thought meant that they would be absorbed by her body.
#8- I would never go against the doctor's orders like this guy did, but I had no idea that eating before surgery caused such a violent reaction. That story is terrifying, poor little girl
Yep. While the girl demonstrates the worst case scenario, anesthesia irritates the stomach, and causes nausea and vomiting. It also works better and takes less to do its job on an empty stomach.
It's the opposite with laughing gas, or N2O at the dentist. Empty stomach will make you sick.
Atomiczombie, would you post more of these stupid patient posts?
I guess I find such ignorance frustrating but somehow amusing.
Like monkeys with bananas!
Ohhh my god #8 is so godawful. It's one thing to be so ignorant you barely qualify as a "higher mammal", but this guy truly poses (or at least posed) a threat to his daughter's life!
That would be my dad. My little sister has to take medication for mental disorders, and my dad felt that she shouldn't have to take her pills if she didn't feel like it. When my sister ended up in the ER from losing her shit after not taking her meds for a few days, he didn't get how he was in any way responsible.
I can understand #2 though, I mean if you aren't told about it you won't just know thats how it works. All it would take is a school that doesn't teach anything about it, which a lot of them don't, and parents that refuse to talk to their children about any of those things, which a lot of them don't. Which leaves them to learn about it from friends, or learn about it first hand. I wouldn't consider her to be a "stupid patient" or anything. I'd call the parents jackasses though.
Having worked in an ER, it's sad how many people know so little about their own bodies.
I was always perplexed that parents would bring a child to the ER in for a mild fever, and hadn't made any attempt to treat it with Tylenol. Or would bring a kid in for a cold. Seriously, a cold. Or parents who would request vaccines for lice or asthma. But seriously, an ER is not the place for primary care.
There's also interesting cases you get too. Like a prisoner who had to be seen when his cell mate stabbed him in the eye with a shiv. Or when a guy cut 90% through his leg with a chainsaw. Or when a 19year old came to the ER because he had taken too many Viagra and had had an erection for 8 hours, (his name was actually a variant of Dick Dickson, at first I thought it was a prank.)
We've had adults call for ambulances for colds and flus. Homeless people abuse them, too, but that's more in the winter, when they can't visit the shelters because they shoo away the ones on drugs.
Also, the parents who bring their kids in for stuff like that amaze me, especially since they have a treasure trove of medical info a few clicks away on their "smart" phones. I mean, if you're not going to make the most of the technology, you're basically paying an arm and a leg for a facebook machine.
Yeah Right, more like The downs who go to the Doctor.
Woman came into the office and had a terrible odor. He asked her if she had any other symptoms. She said that she felt like she was bloated when she wore tampons. Turns out she had 14 tampons in her and she was not taking them out because they were "biodegradable"-which she thought meant that they would be absorbed by her body.
It's the opposite with laughing gas, or N2O at the dentist. Empty stomach will make you sick.
I guess I find such ignorance frustrating but somehow amusing.
Like monkeys with bananas!
I was always perplexed that parents would bring a child to the ER in for a mild fever, and hadn't made any attempt to treat it with Tylenol. Or would bring a kid in for a cold. Seriously, a cold. Or parents who would request vaccines for lice or asthma. But seriously, an ER is not the place for primary care.
There's also interesting cases you get too. Like a prisoner who had to be seen when his cell mate stabbed him in the eye with a shiv. Or when a guy cut 90% through his leg with a chainsaw. Or when a 19year old came to the ER because he had taken too many Viagra and had had an erection for 8 hours, (his name was actually a variant of Dick Dickson, at first I thought it was a prank.)
Also, the parents who bring their kids in for stuff like that amaze me, especially since they have a treasure trove of medical info a few clicks away on their "smart" phones. I mean, if you're not going to make the most of the technology, you're basically paying an arm and a leg for a facebook machine.