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Here are 35 incidents of patients coming into the ER for the astir ridiculous reasons EVER:
1. "When I was a student, I had a young feline travel into the ER with psych complaints. He was disquieted astir his thoughts. He said that helium has these retired of assemblage experiences, helium feels similar helium can’t power his caput oregon body, and helium conscionable feels odd. I sermon with my attending and we’re astir to consult psychiatry. We spell and interrogation the diligent unneurotic and sermon things further. It turns retired that helium gets these symptoms astir 3 times per day, subsequently happens aft helium smokes weed. So helium was conscionable getting high."
2. "Young mates travel successful saying they person tried conceiving for astir a year, but she’s inactive not pregnant. I commencement by taking her diligent history. Turns retired she’s been connected the pill for years owed to play pain. Also, erstwhile I explained however the pill works, and advised her to discontinue and support trying for a baby, they didn’t judge maine and insisted connected being referred to a fertility specialist."
3. "My ma worked astatine a large infirmary and heard the communicative of a feline who called the exigency enactment saying that he'd accidentally stabbed himself successful the torso with a weapon portion cutting something. Their archetypal portion of proposal was to not region the knife, to which helium replied "what bash I bash if I DID region it?" and they gave him instructions. When the ambulance arrived, they recovered the antheral with the weapon successful his torso... yep, helium enactment it backmost in."
4. "This doesn't precisely acceptable the criteria, but it's close. Back erstwhile I inactive worked successful the ICU, I had a household travel successful during visitation to spot their loved 1 carrying 1 of those integrative containers from a market store bakery with fractional a twelve cupcakes inside. I walked into the country to update them connected the diligent and we talked astir it besides being her day that day. They gestured toward the cupcakes and said that's wherefore they had the cupcakes with them. I thought that was truly sweet, they were going to observe her day with her adjacent though she was successful the ICU. Then they manus maine the instrumentality and look astatine maine expectantly. I look back, unsure of what my adjacent determination was expected to be. "Aren't you going to provender them to her?" This pistillate was connected a ventilator and connected IV sedation. It took maine an embarrassingly agelong clip to explicate to these radical wherefore she couldn't devour portion she was unconscious with a breathing conduit in. Nice folks, not terribly bright."
5. "Ear chemoreceptor and pharynx clinic. Really tense and frightened middle-aged man. College-educated achromatic collar worker. He was determination due to the fact that "When I unfastened my rima and respire successful the h2o during showers I commencement coughing a lot." "When you respire successful water, you cough?" "Yeah, I don’t get it." "Drowning. That’s called drowning. And it’s normal"".
6. "Chief complaint: "situational crisis”. Further triage note: patient's girl won’t reply the phone."
7. "In aesculapian schoolhouse I had a diligent travel successful for abdominal pain. During my bid of questions, I asked if the diligent could beryllium pregnant, she said nary due to the fact that she is simply a lesbian. The attending had america bid a gestation trial successful summation to humor enactment anyway. Pregnancy trial comes backmost positive. This clip I asked the diligent if she has had enactment with a man. She responded yes but was confused arsenic to however she could beryllium large if she’s a lesbian? My attending replied, "Honey, the sperm don’t attraction if you’re a lesbian." It blew my caput that she didn’t deliberation she could get large simply due to the fact that she identified arsenic a lesbian."
— jazzyMD
8. "Was a med pupil astatine the time. IV cause idiosyncratic couldn’t find immoderate much veins. Looked down and saw the dorsal vein of the penis. Tried to inject there. Missed and got it into the shaft. It got precise infected and swollen, developed cellulitis. He tried to drain what-he-thought-was-an-abscess (it wasn’t, it was conscionable cellulitis) himself…. with a steak knife. Now it was extended penile cellulitis with 2 stab wounds successful it. Angriest looking penis I’ve ever seen."
9. "I discharged a Russian diligent aft helium had been hospitalized for intoxicant induced liver damage. As I was getting him retired the doorway I impressed upon him the value of avoiding intoxicant and helium asked me, sincerely, if vodka was considered alcohol."
— catrosie
10. "22-year-old pain diligent beingness flighted successful overnight. I got determination successful the greeting and she was the speech of the pain unit. This miss was retired astatine the barroom with a radical of friends the anterior nighttime and managed to tally up a $200 barroom tab that she couldn’t spend to pay. So her friends archer her they’ll wage for her tab if she lets them determination Bacardi 151 connected her and airy her connected fire, and she agrees to it due to the fact that she didn’t cognize intoxicant was flammable."
11. "I had a diligent consecutive up archer maine they were giving and selling their symptom medicine distant to friends. It was their crushed for needing predominant refills."
12. "My dada worked successful the ER. Had a woman travel successful 1 time due to the fact that her hands were turning blue. She felt good otherwise, everything seemed normal. Then helium realized that she was wearing a bluish velour way suit, which turned retired to beryllium new. Her hands were turning bluish from the dye."
"Bonus story: He had a woman travel successful 1 nighttime due to the fact that she deed a histrion portion snowmobiling. I deliberation she broke an limb oregon something. He asked however the mishap happened and she said she had turned disconnected her headlight truthful she could look astatine the stars, portion driving a snowmobile done the woods astatine night." — Anonymous
13. "A diligent thought helium had an STD. Turns retired helium shaved the shaft of his penis (????) with a adust razor."
14. "At a neighboring hospital: Lady comes into the ER complaining of stomach/intestinal pain. Turns retired her fellow was precise overmuch into smelling her farts (I'll fto Reddit look up what benignant of -philia that is), and to facilitate that, she had allowed him to instrumentality the nozzle of a motorcycle pump successful her butthole and pump it up."
— Ormriss
15. "Ophthalmologist here. Patient’s oculus wasn’t getting amended truthful I asked if he’s utilizing his drops successful the close eye. He wasn’t. He argued that his close oculus is truly his near oculus due to the fact that helium throws a shot with his near hand. I argued close vs near with him for a bully 5 minutes earlier I gave up. He won the argument."
16. "I was the dumb patient. I got tested for lactose intolerance, my humor sweetener rising similar it should, truthful it wasn't that. I inactive had a precise beardown tummy absorption and spent a fewer hours successful a pay-toilet feeling precise atrocious for myself. Told my doctor, "I cognize it isn't lactose, but I crap myself if/when I portion milk." Doctor goes, "Well.. effort not drinking milk." I've ne'er trusted my encephalon since."
18. "Not a doctor, but was an head astatine an ophthalmology clinic. A diligent had to beryllium prescribed immoderate pills earlier his oculus surgery. He returns 5 minutes aft his consultation, ace concerned, arsenic helium didn’t cognize however helium was going to get the pills into his eyes. Our caregiver suggested that helium effort swallowing them."
"Another diligent had chronic adust eyes that helium was seeing 1 of our doctors for, and 1 time called for an exigency assignment arsenic his eyes were successful pain. Apparently helium had heard of chromatic being utilized successful oculus drops to assistance with adust eyes, truthful the antheral enactment consecutive chromatic onto his eyes." — rhymeswithlasagne
19. "One of my coworkers prescribed a diligent Flagyl, an antibiotic that causes terrible vomiting erstwhile combined with alcohol. She told the diligent “not to drink” portion taking it. Two days aboriginal the diligent presented to the ER with terrible dehydration. Apparently she took the “no drinking” a small excessively seriously."
20. "Ate a sandwich with a spot of mold connected it. Wasn't blessed with the attraction they received astatine the different infirmary aft calling 911, truthful they came to america for a "second opinion"".
21. "Wet socks. We took them disconnected his feet and handed them to him with his discharge paperwork."
22. "My sister is simply a doctor. One dilatory nighttime astatine 2 oregon 3 a.m. 2 constabulary officers arrived with a 3rd "injured" cop. My sister rushed to assistance conscionable to find that the bull had a nosebleed. He had a ton of gauze connected his look covering his chemoreceptor and was truly frightened due to the fact that helium was "bleeding a lot". When my sister removed the gauze, determination were lone 2 oregon 3 tiny droplets of blood. She gave the bull a mates of tampons to shove up his nostrils portion saying, "C'mon, I bleed much that that each period and I'm not frightened and crying." The bull near reddish faced and embarrassed with the different 2 cops making amusive of him."
23. "Not a doc but an embryologist. Had a antheral travel successful to bash a semen investigation earlier starting IVF with his wife. Put him successful the postulation country with instructions similar normal. He rang and erstwhile I went to spell drawback his illustration I spot that helium consecutive up pooped successful the cup. Turns retired the mates had perfectly nary thought connected however to marque a babe and that’s wherefore they were having fertility issues. Unfortunately not my lone story; this is conscionable the worst one."
24. "I've had truthful galore patients archer maine they person nary aesculapian problems, but past their medicine database is pages agelong and they archer maine that those medicines cure them of their diabetes, precocious humor pressure, etc truthful they don't person it. I erstwhile had a feline shriek astatine maine that I needed to springiness him morphine due to the fact that helium has a "constitutional close to not beryllium successful pain". I've had a 36-ish week large pistillate who utilized meth the full gestation deed maine successful the caput with a thrown entity due to the fact that her escaped turkey sandwich didn't travel with the mayo already connected the sandwich. I've had a feline stabbed consecutive successful the cervix travel walking successful saying helium got stabbed past being shocked erstwhile I told him I had to enactment accelerated oregon helium could dice and to delight get disconnected his telephone with his homies. "I COULD DIE?? HOW?" My brother, you were stabbed successful the NECK and you're covered successful blood."
"Oh, and truthful galore radical who usage meth, fentanyl, immoderate fig of thoroughfare drugs, but I inquire if they're vaccinated against COVID arsenic portion of their screening process, and they spell "EW NO I don't cognize what's successful that vaccine, I'm not putting it successful my body."" — Halefire
25. "Young pistillate stuck a hairsbreadth brushwood grip successful her vagina, was past acrophobic she was nary longer a virgin truthful she came to the ED to find out."
— smohoff
26. "Radiology told maine astir handing orangish receptor plugs to a diligent for an MRI and helium popped them successful his rima and swallowed them."
— Anonymous
27. "My sister's a doc and she saw a diligent and prescribed meds. Asked them to travel spot her a week aboriginal arsenic a travel up. Patient comes backmost adjacent week saying that they don't consciousness amended astatine all. Sister asks to spot the meds she prescribed to guarantee they got the close ones. Patient says they ne'er picked up the meds due to the fact that they lone wanted meds with integrated ingredients not 1 afloat of chemicals."
28. "57 F came by ambulance, enactment to triage and waited for 2 hours for "my clitoris is swollen. Everyone says so." Did not elaborate however galore radical were consulted."
29. "This dude was taking 5,000 milligrams of ibuprofen mundane for his tummy pain. It was an ulcer from each the symptom meds."
30. "My dada is an ER doc. He has pulled galore objects retired of galore antithetic butts. The funniest portion is, though he’s seen possibly hundreds of cases by this point, the lone crushed it seems to beryllium happening crossed the committee is that they "fell connected it"".
31. "Someone broke their acrylic nail."
— aShi293
32. ""My hubby was acting similar an asshole." Just an argument. No abuse, nary illness, nothing. She conscionable wanted a spot to enactment for the nighttime that was distant from him."
— Anonymous
33. "Not a doctor, but a nurse. Had a diligent who repeatedly had recurring yeast infections, similar atrocious ones. Wouldn't instrumentality Diflucan due to the fact that she swore yogurt would bash the trick. Questioned her, aft observing however aggravated her vagina looked connected her 3rd sojourn arsenic to what benignant of yogurt she was eating to forestall the yeast infection. Boy was I amazed erstwhile I recovered retired she was applying the yogurt to her vagina, alternatively than eating it."
34. "Nurse, but had idiosyncratic who thought we physically assistance them with giving a semen sample. I privation I had capable courageousness to archer him I'll telephone the antheral caregiver for him."
— Anonymous
35. "An 18 twelvemonth aged antheral came to ER to get checked for a UTI. Denied symptoms, but conscionable wanted to get checked due to the fact that "My ma has a UTI.""
— Anonymous
Well, these were a fistful to read. Do you cognize immoderate stories of patients coming to the ER for the astir ridiculous reasons? We'd emotion to perceive it!
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