Patient 1:
Patient states she thinks someone put something in her vegetable juice this am at 0500. She says that she woke up and drank the juice and shortly after she felt "like my stomach was swelling up and then I had nasty orange diarrhea". Pt states she then drank 1/2 gallon of milk and then had the more diarrhea, this time a lighter orange. Pt appears in no acute distress in triage. Pt states she feels fine now.Patient 2:
Patient with chief complaint of "I have an abscess on my head and i found a worm in it."
-ER Doc
5 comments:
Let me guess, patient 1 showed up in the ER at about 2345.
Patient two should be happy...the worm likely has a higher IQ than she does. And I am with Mel....bet this one needed care between 2300 and 0300.
Pattie, RN
#2 makes me think bot fly larva. Not uncommon in vet med. Not sure how common it is in people but I have heard of people with them.
"STAT Chocolate Milk Treatment for Patient #1 to emergently return fecal matter to its brown baseline!"
Gotta love saving lives in the ER!
That is IT, Dr. D....I am sending you the cleaning bill to remove coffee from my monitor, directly induced by a paroxysm of spit-laughter related to YOUR comment!
Patttie, RN
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