tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post5824997873438151562..comments2024-01-24T21:28:29.675-08:00Comments on TALES FROM THE SERENITY NOW HOSPITAL: PlaceboSerenityNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11692300152273949586noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post-24462366438709403912010-01-15T23:25:20.820-08:002010-01-15T23:25:20.820-08:00p.s. I treat patients with placebo all the time. ...p.s. I treat patients with placebo all the time. It's called psychotherapy, a.k.a. "pretending like I give a sh!t for 45 minutes"<br /><br />-psych docSerenityNowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11692300152273949586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post-23458528084702352792010-01-15T22:11:32.074-08:002010-01-15T22:11:32.074-08:00Nowhere will you see as much fake medical problems...Nowhere will you see as much fake medical problems as a psychiatric floor.<br /><br />I have seen the weirdest, funniest "seizures", "priapisms", etc.<br /><br />But let me remind everyone that psych patients get sick too. I have proved numerous physicians wrong when psych patients have had events that are minimized because the staff say "Oh, it's a psych patient, they are faking it."<br /><br />Remember that psych patients can get sick as well.<br /><br />-Psych DocSerenityNowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11692300152273949586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post-27014189492027218422010-01-15T05:31:03.046-08:002010-01-15T05:31:03.046-08:00Ouch, good post and touchy subject. I trained whe...Ouch, good post and touchy subject. I trained where my superiors mostly felt placebos were deceptive. And why does everyone do a google search before coming in except this guy? Get him a dictionary so he can look up placebo..save you all time.StorytellERdochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14371229500424449124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post-22376460075511428122010-01-14T09:33:17.663-08:002010-01-14T09:33:17.663-08:00Yep - NorMALsaline works wonders. I used it once ...Yep - NorMALsaline works wonders. I used it once when I had a patient start seizing because he didn't get the dilaudid he asked for. Told him that I had something that would help him feel better. Pushed it real slow...for effect. It's truly a wonder drug.DreamingTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09911536074688347584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post-35017899574806527022010-01-14T00:22:20.457-08:002010-01-14T00:22:20.457-08:00I have heard that an injection of NorMALsaline ca...I have heard that an injection of NorMALsaline can work wonders too. Especially for EMTs who don't happen to have any thing else. Sometimes they even have to hang a whole bag of it and infuse it at a steady rate to give a constant dose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post-65699126104409073332010-01-13T12:34:32.556-08:002010-01-13T12:34:32.556-08:00Wow.
What might it suggest about my character tha...Wow.<br /><br />What might it suggest about my character that these kinds of stories actually draw me in closer towards emergency medicine?Josiah O. Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03008853460815824883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post-34625807415051617502010-01-13T12:21:10.741-08:002010-01-13T12:21:10.741-08:00That's a good one.
My brother was epileptic ...That's a good one. <br /><br />My brother was epileptic and NEVER did he converse during a grandmal seizure.Smochahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04604417561056157219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post-91721976057748136612010-01-13T11:10:54.656-08:002010-01-13T11:10:54.656-08:00I once had a schizophrenic patient who told me his...I once had a schizophrenic patient who told me his medications, "...and placebo, which is a pill that doesn't do anything, as I understand it from the nurse..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1408616337296439010.post-63067923285301239372010-01-13T10:10:23.209-08:002010-01-13T10:10:23.209-08:00How fortunate for him that you were given access t...How fortunate for him that you were given access to the secret stage 5 research trial drug known as Placebo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com