"I
couldn't have made it up if I tried!"Becky
told us "James is 87, the sweetest of patients, one of nature's gentlemen.
Just the other day when I was giving James a sponge bath I stood him up next to
the bed so I could wash his privates when he looked down and said "Have you
ever seen anything so big?"
I didn't know what to tell him, confessed
Becky, all I could think of was there was this guy down in Florida one time ...
but before I could say a word, James shook his head and said "my brother
in law told me once that, these have got to be biggest damn feet he has ever seen!" |
| Jo, from Cairns, got egg on her face: "I was assigned
to caring for a young man who had been shot three times - he had no life-threatening
injuries but certainly severe wounds. I barged into his single room to ask if
he’d completed his menu for the following day to find him standing gingerly
beside his bed using a urinal. To cover any embarrassment he might feel, I blurted
out an old Austarlian expression: 'Oh! The sights you see when you haven’t
got a gun!' Needless to say, I blushed!" | | Stephanie was
triaging a patient in L & D who thought she was in labor. She was doing the
pain assessment, and asked her "Is your pain intermittent or constant?"
"What?" "Does your pain come and go or is it constant?" "Well,
it constantly comes and goes!" | A first
year student in her first month of clinicals in a general surgery ward is asked
to give a report of her patient to her clinical instructor:
"My patient
Mr. x, is a 45 year old gentleman, who has been diagnosed to have a calcium stomach
..."
The instructor was confused, as she had never heard of a calcium
stomach. When she
opened the patient's history sheet, it turned out to be
carcinoma - Ca Stomach. | I was recovering an elderly Cornish
female patient who was hard of hearing and who had had her colostomy resited.
On awakening both the patient and myself were talking very loudly and the conversation
was as follows:
"What's 'e done then?"
"He's resited your
colostomy"
"'e's what?"
"He's resited your colostomy"
"Recycled my colostomy! Well, who's got it then?" | One
evening while administering medication to an elderly lady the following exchange
took place:
"Hi, I have your medication for you."
"Oh,
okay."
" I'm gonna give you some pepcid for your stomach, but I'm
putting it in your IV."
(patient looked a bit perplexed)
"Okay.
Uhmmm... I have a question."
"Oh, what's your question."
"Well, I hope you don't mind me asking, but, I was just wondering ... why
Pepsi and not Coke?" | | I was caring for a 22-year old newly
diagnosed insulin dependent diabetic who was extremely noncompliant. In my effort
to illustrate that compliance and good control of blood sugars generally will
delay the onset and severity of long-term complications, I shared the clinical
picture of a young man who, due to his denial of his disease, by 32 years of age
was blind, on dialysis, had lost his testicles and was about to have his feet
amputated ... the patient cried out in horror, "How can you live without
testicles?". | | |
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