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Posted on 12/12/22 at 1:25 pm to theantiquetiger
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Your worst hospital experience
Residency. My months of overnight shifts by myself in Covid.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 1:52 pm to theantiquetiger
Had a tranny nurse with razor stubble try to give me a sponge bath.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 1:56 pm to theantiquetiger
I went to Baton Rouge General, once. I’m not from BTR but had sudden acute abdominal pain etc. Worst hospital experience of my life. Treated like a drug seeker, perhaps? Idk why else they didn’t give me anything for obvious pain. No fluids in IV either. Nothing for nausea. I was dry heaving with occasional bile. Stuck in a hallway and ridiculed by my nurse for crying on the phone to my husband who was back home. Begging nurses and crying for help. Very embarrassing as ppl walked through the halls. Asked for a room. But they put ppl with a cut toe or crazies out of the ambulance into the rooms one after the other instead. Idk if anyone has had their entire small intestine and part of stomach slide through an internal hernia and be pinched off but that stuff HURTS. Could not move or touch my back. Severe front ab pain. Ended up with No diagnosis. Sent home with keterolac? And Zofran Rx. Missed internal hernia and obstruction. Immediate surgery once back in Lafayette. LGMC did ekg, pain relief, nausea relief, ct, and had 4 surgeons talking to me in less than an hour.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 1:56 pm to zsav77
quote:It's so funny you say that because I had that and felt the exact same way when I read that story!
zsav quietly exits thread with his epididymitis story, not that bad in retrospect
Antibiotics on IV for several days for you too, huh?
Posted on 12/12/22 at 2:07 pm to RealityTiger
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Antibiotics on IV for several days for you too, huh?
Antibiotics and Demerol for a week with a nut the size of a softball while running fever the entire time after a 4 am emergency room visit.
Finally got into the urologist and was put on anti inflammatories. That knocked down the swelling.
Walked around like I was 90 for two weeks.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 2:14 pm to theantiquetiger
Several years ago I went to the ER for an appendectomy. While I was recovering the nurse was assisting the patient in the bed next to me urinate. Apparently the patient couldn't walk to the bathroom and needed help. Anyways, when the patient was done, the nurse placed the container of urine on my table tray while she continued assisting the patient. When she turned around, she bumped into the table and the container of another person's piss went all over me.
Yes, this actually happened.
Yes, this actually happened.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 2:38 pm to upgrade
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I thought the patient had the right to refuse medical students in the room?
I think if it is a teaching hospital, it's up to the attending MD. They are there to observe and learn.
I think you can refuse medical care from a medical student.
Now if they are Muslim students or patients, all bets are off on who can/will be there.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 2:41 pm to theantiquetiger
did CPR on a 6-8 year old for something like 2 hours, it was nuts. Not sure how many times the attending pushed epinephrine. or I guess had the nurses do it, whatever. No machine coming in to the rescue. The kid did not make it but with kids you don't give up.
I had the respect of all the staff after that, but I'll never go back or work there. I switched my program after that too. The attending told me that stuff like that was fairly rare there but I have strange luck and could see it happening more often just because I was there. Anyway watching a kid die wasn't my cup of tea.
I had the respect of all the staff after that, but I'll never go back or work there. I switched my program after that too. The attending told me that stuff like that was fairly rare there but I have strange luck and could see it happening more often just because I was there. Anyway watching a kid die wasn't my cup of tea.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 4:25 pm to zsav77
Yup same here. And had to show it to every single nurse coming on shift…
Posted on 12/12/22 at 4:50 pm to theantiquetiger
Saying goodbye to my dad before they pulled the plug.
Watching my MIL take her last breaths after an unexpected illness.
Watching my MIL take her last breaths after an unexpected illness.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 4:52 pm to cwil177
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Now, as an ER doctor, having to tell someone their kid is dead. Absolutely sucks.
SUBTLE AF
Posted on 12/12/22 at 4:59 pm to theantiquetiger
After a 9 hour surgery, I get rolled to my room and told that my pain management regimen consisted of an oxycodone pill every 6 hours. After the pain kicked in and it was horrific, I screamed as loud as I could until the nurses called my surgeon who ordered a pain pump. After two button pushes on the pump, the pain magically disappeared.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 5:01 pm to TomJoadGhost
quote:Been there. Sorry for your loss.
Holding my mom’s hand while she died
Posted on 12/12/22 at 5:35 pm to theantiquetiger
what the hell...
maybe 5 years old, Our Lady of the Lake
mind you, i was too young to understand and way too young to remember specifics. diagnosed with a narrow urethra. yes, i had surgery on my pecker as a kid. embarrassing as hell to show doctors and nurses my junk much less have them work on it. pissing afterward felt like lava.
damn thing took a while to heal and i had to make sure the hole didn't close up in the meantime which it started to do because what kid is going to keep spreading his piss hole bigger after it's surgically widened?...never forgot this part, on a follow up appt the Dr used scissors to re-widen the hole...nothing for the pain while i watched. it was all a living nightmare at the time...why me Mom??? wtf??
i can piss a river now so there's that.
maybe 5 years old, Our Lady of the Lake
mind you, i was too young to understand and way too young to remember specifics. diagnosed with a narrow urethra. yes, i had surgery on my pecker as a kid. embarrassing as hell to show doctors and nurses my junk much less have them work on it. pissing afterward felt like lava.
damn thing took a while to heal and i had to make sure the hole didn't close up in the meantime which it started to do because what kid is going to keep spreading his piss hole bigger after it's surgically widened?...never forgot this part, on a follow up appt the Dr used scissors to re-widen the hole...nothing for the pain while i watched. it was all a living nightmare at the time...why me Mom??? wtf??
i can piss a river now so there's that.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:10 pm to theantiquetiger
Was dept manager for a medium size hospital in South Arkansas. The first day they asked me not to change anything in this particuliar sub department because they had 4 major lawsuits resulting from bad work from that department and "they had finally straightened it out" (said proudly with their chest out). I'd never been in a department that had any lawsuits, much less 4. All because of careless work. And the employees couldn't have cared less. Total crap show. 90 percent of the department heads IQs had to be less than 100, probably even less. The COs weren't much smarter. I stayed in bizarro world 18 months and got it it to maybe a D plus from near a zero. I have never seen such a combo of stupid people and non-caring people in my life. So thats my worst hospital experience.
This post was edited on 12/12/22 at 6:30 pm
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:14 pm to Cracker
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Now, as an ER doctor, having to tell someone their kid is dead. Absolutely sucks.
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Now, as an ER doctor, having to tell someone their kid is dead. Absolutely sucks.
I had on oncologist have to tell me that my 20 year old son only had days left. I have the utmost respect for the Dr's and nurses who have to deal with this every day.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:21 pm to jeffsdad
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90 percent of the department heads IQs had to be less than 120, probably even less. The COs weren't much smarter.
You don't need a super-high IQ to be a doctor or nurse. 120 is more than adequate, if you have the other qualities that those jobs require (work ethic, attitude, attention to detail, etc.).
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:26 pm to theantiquetiger
Had a whipple surgery 10 years ago. Brutal enough. About 2 days post surgery, I told nurse I didn’t think pain pump was working. She was fooling around with it. All I remember is saying “. I don’t remember feeling…….” Next thing I remember is waking up in a white room with bright lights and I start shouting what the frick happened?!?.
Well I guess I got the whole thing of pain med and all my wife will say is my eyes rolled in the back of my head, the nurse hit the button on the wall and tons of people showed up, gave me narcan and wheeled me out of there. To this day, she won’t talk about it or tell me anything more
Well I guess I got the whole thing of pain med and all my wife will say is my eyes rolled in the back of my head, the nurse hit the button on the wall and tons of people showed up, gave me narcan and wheeled me out of there. To this day, she won’t talk about it or tell me anything more
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:29 pm to USMEagles
OK, I'm speaking of my dept, not docs or nurses. So if 120 is adequate make it 100. I will edit. The point is they had no common sense, no ability to critical think, and should not have anything to do with patient care. The few with normal iqs seriously did not care if their work was correct or not. I had 35 fte's when I got their and before I left there was 22. Everybody, except the docs and nurses, hated me cause I did what was right and not easy.
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