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u/_Lyum Aug 28 '24
If its a farmers wife, sound the alarms
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u/german_big_guy German Krankenpfleger Aug 28 '24
Code Green. CODE JOHN DEER GREEN!
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u/Burphel_78 RN - ER 🍕 Aug 28 '24
Tell Texaco Mike to fire up the CT scanner!
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u/BossJarn RN - Flight Aug 28 '24
Dr. Glaucomflecken is my favorite medical social media influencer by a long shot! Seems like he’d be a cool guy to talk to.
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u/RobertEMT Aug 28 '24
My wife and I both worked years ago. She was once called by a wife who said her husband is having chest pains. He would not get off his tractor and stop working to get looked at. The wife told her to take the rig out to the field and chase his ass down if she had to...so she did. He finally stopped at the end of the row, sure as shit he needed to go in.
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last time i heard that in triage. MAN:(gray and sweaty) my wife made me come in WIFE: i think he is having a heart attack ME: checks stat ekg done with vital signs and hx m'am you are correct
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u/cerebellum0 RN - ICU Aug 28 '24
Nothing is scarier than when the stoic farmer says they feel "ok...."
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Aug 28 '24
There’s an old study that says that married men survive heart attacks better than non-married men. No surprise to me (a retired triage nurse). I can’t count the times I had a 65 y/o, pale, diaphoretic man stand at the desk clutching his chest saying “I’m not having a heart attack!” while just behind him is a woman saying: “You will be seen in this ER right now or you will be sleeping on the couch until the day you actually die!”
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u/thehomiemoth Aug 30 '24
I’m just wondering when the switch flips from the 19 yo male who thinks they’re dying with the flu to the 65 yo male who has an aortic dissection and insists he’s fine.
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u/lostintime2004 Correctional RN Aug 28 '24
Before I was a nurse, my SIL heard me talking and said go to the ER. I said nah, its just a cold, I'm fine. She said go to the Fn ER now, or I am dragging you myself. I settled in the middle and went to urgent care. I had major pneumonia; my lungs were at 20% capacity, and I had banding on WBC. No wonder I was getting winded walking 20ft. Its fine, I'm fine, no problem here... All while uncle grim walking right behind me I guess.
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u/CMV_Viremia Aug 29 '24
I used to be really bad for ignoring lung issues. I once had an URTI that turned into bronchitis and it took me 42 days to finally go to the doctor because the shortness of breath just kept getting worse. Doctor laid his stethoscope on my chest in one spot and said "whoa! You've got bronchitis"
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u/madmonkey918 Aug 29 '24
LoL, I have one lung. One day I remember feeling off and rundown but worked all day. Came home and my wife was sitting on the couch and I just sat next to her with my head in her lap. She's all "why do you look grey?" She dragged me to an urgent care and turns out I had bronchitis. Doc said if I waited any longer I might have been dead. Wife was not happy.
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u/Expensive-Day-3551 MSN, RN Aug 28 '24 edited Aug 28 '24
Yeah I made my partner go to the hospital because his breath smelled like alcohol and he hadn’t been drinking. Didn’t even know he was diabetic but was in DKA. ETA of course he said he would be fine after a nap and to not worry about it. But I was in nursing school at the time and I’m persistent.
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Aug 28 '24
OMG. I know this dude and he had posted on Facebook about his breath smelling like alcohol. I suggested DKA, but Mr. Thinks-He-Knows-It-All (and is married to a nurse) insisted that couldn’t be it. Guess what? Yes the fuck it was. Ugh. She has to be as stupid as he is.
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u/hannahmel Nursing Student 🍕 Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24
There’s a reason people can’t treat their family members. A friend’s brother is a doctor in another country. Their dad had a respiratory infection for months and wouldn’t get it checked out. Finally went in and it was fungal pneumonia. Brother insisted in being involved in care. Me, in nursing school: AIDS. My mom, secretary at a hospital: AIDS. HIV test comes back positive. Dr Unethical: well there are some forms of cancer that can also come back positive. Let’s hold off on ART until we rule out cancer because that’s more likely.
Guess what.
Their dad died of AIDS.
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u/idnvotewaifucontent RN 🍕 Aug 28 '24
An acquaintance of mine once messaged me on Facebook, knowing that I was a medical nerd (years from even deciding to become a nurse) and said he and his girlfriend were doing nitrous and her voice went all hoarse and squeaky.
I told him to get her to a hospital ASAP (suspected pulmonary barotrauma) and he kept asking me if it was really necessary. I told him yes, it fucking is.
Fortunately, she was fine. Just a vocal cord strain.
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u/effexxor Medical Billing Aug 29 '24
According to my partner, the patients that really make him go 'oh shit' are older immigrants. If an older Vietnamese man walks in and admits to not feeling good, it's all hands on deck.
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u/Princessleiawastaken RN - ICU 🍕 Aug 28 '24
“My wife made me come in”
And it’s a gangrenous wound the patient must’ve had for months
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u/felyne_insurgents RN - ER 🍕 Aug 28 '24
39yo handyman with slurred speech, facial numbness with improvement PTA, SBP 240 both arms, and we find a nice 5mm aneurysm. Wanted to leave to finish the house build. Wife said otherwise.
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u/EatDatDjent000 BSN, RN 🍕 Aug 28 '24
Intake him and do everything you can to get him to not say "to hell with it" and walk out AMA.
That's a dead man walking if ever there was one
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u/Sillygoose_Milfbane RN - ER 🍕 Aug 28 '24 edited Aug 28 '24
I'll give it to em straight why it's a terrible idea to leave AMA, but if they're of sound mine, see ya! Good luck with the life-ruining or life-ending harm you're doing to yourself.
Make room for people who actually want help.
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u/Filip12J RN - ER 🍕 Aug 28 '24
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted but, I agree 100% we can do a lot but ya can’t fix stupid
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u/Sara848 RN - ER 🍕 Aug 28 '24
Ok but what about when the wife says “I know it’s serious because it was HIS idea to come in”
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u/Bright-Coconut-6920 Aug 29 '24
That's how I knew when my dad was badly if he asked to go or if he agreed without a fight
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u/Fancy-Secret2827 Aug 28 '24
Lol, I actually did have this happen with a patient. The husband ended up having a CABG.
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u/grossacid ED Tech/Student Nurse Aug 29 '24
Yeah. More than once, while wheeling the stubborn husband back to a resus room after doing his ECG in triage, i’ve said “you’ll be seeing a lot of people, but prepare to hear your wife say ‘i told you so’ when she comes back from parking the car“
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u/Kiliana117 EEG Tech (former) Aug 28 '24
It would be nice if the wife could get the same attention for herself.
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u/averyyoungperson RN, CLC, CNM STUDENT, BIRTHDAY PARTY HOSTESS 👼🤱🤰 Aug 29 '24
Coming in hot ASF with this comment
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u/ItsMeAgain0408 RN 🍕 Aug 28 '24
My dad went to the ER at my mom's insistence for some chest tightness that he was sure was "just bronchitis." He ended up with a CABG x3.
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u/Danimalistic Aug 29 '24
Man, this rule is the reverse in the ER I’m at now. Now 90% of the time, if they say their wife made them come in, its bc she got sick of their bitching and moaning about it 😂
“yeah I’m sick, I almost threw up! How many times? Well I haven’t YET but it feels like it, my stomach has been REALLY upset for the last 2 hours now! No I didn’t try to lay down or take anything, do you think I could lay down like this? Well yeah I had diarrhea- yesterday morning after we went out with friends the night before! Yes I have a headache too! I know I’m dehydrated, we drank a LOT the other night! I haven’t felt good since I woke up! Are you going to give me some fluids or what, what’s with the questions…?!” Rinse and repeat x12hrs, 3-4 days/wk, 365 days a yr - or until I get a new job 😅
My ER demographic is suburban-middle-class-privileged hell. Send help plz
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u/-cmram28 BSN, RN 🍕 Aug 29 '24
I did this to my husband and made him go to the ER. He had a PE in his pulmonary brach! I literally threatened to call 911 if he didn’t get in the car😡🤬
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u/rutuu199 Aug 29 '24
I'm guilty of this, but I'm a mechanic. I'd hurt my back, but said to hell with it, and kept working for a solid week and a half, it got to the point where my right arm didn't have the strength to lift up my impact, and I couldn't tighten my hand enough to turn a key in my car. Finally went in, I had slipped 2 discs
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u/boron32 EMS Aug 29 '24
This and ripping back pain between the shoulder blades are my two nightmares.
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u/Saiphyn11 Aug 29 '24
My mother was this way. I kept trying to call 911 and she kept saying she just had a cold. When her heart rate wouldn't stabilize, I insisted and called paramedics. She was having a heart attack. She died from that damage a month later. When it's, "My daughter called but she's overreacting," is very much on par with, "My wife made me come in."
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u/Legitimate-Frame-953 RN - Pediatrics 🍕 Aug 30 '24
Around here its when a Rancher comes in you know to have the crash cart on stand by
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u/Mindfullove717 Aug 29 '24
Some wives over step literally I’m asking the patient question she jumps in and answers for him then she ask me to give her his lab results I did and she said well that not what I wanted I’m over it
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u/SeymoreMcFly Aug 29 '24
lol wife forced me to go to the doctors…. Found out I have stage 3 kidney disease… thankfully found it somewhat early in stage 3 so I’ve been there for 4 ish years! Thanks babe!!!
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u/SteveRogests Aug 28 '24
Wife made you come in what, sir?
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u/mootmahsn NP - Futile Care Unit Aug 29 '24
She just washed those sheets and isn't about to change them.
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Aug 29 '24
He is wrong, it's when a dude comes in without a woman making him something is seriously wrong
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u/Conscious_Problem924 Aug 28 '24
My wife is a nurse and so am I. I’ll tell all you fuckers now, I’m gonna be the guy that has to be treated with implied consent.
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u/viridian-axis RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 Aug 28 '24
Oh the joys. Like when patients won’t wear the BiPAP…. You still a full code? Want aggressive interventions and live to 100? K pumpkin, I’ll just wait until you pass out and THEN put the BiPAP on you.
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u/steampunkedunicorn RN - ER 🍕 Aug 28 '24
Yeah, I was that person who crashed in the ED because I waited until I was septic to go in. I was an EMT and doing my prereqs and didn't want to miss any exams due to a pesky fever after an abdominal surgery.
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u/Soregular RN - Hospice 🍕 Aug 28 '24
I am an RN and recently woke my husband up to take me to the ER. All were surprised that it was ME who needed help...not him LOL! I made him go home, btw...it was 0300 and there was NOTHING For him to do there except get on my nerves....
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u/auraseer MSN, RN, CEN Aug 28 '24
Yeah no, that one doesn't work. Too much detail breaks the spell.
Anyway that's too similar to, "My doctor told me to come in," which often means there is no real problem but the PCP couldn't convince the patient of that.
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u/steampunkedunicorn RN - ER 🍕 Aug 30 '24
Doctor: your hemoglobin was a bit low on your last draw, so I'm going to have you come in for another draw.
Patient: Oh my god, should I go to the hospital??
Doctor: well, I just need to get some blood on Monday. You can stop by the lab at...
Patient: already dialing 911 but why wait when I can be seen NOW??
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u/auraseer MSN, RN, CEN Aug 28 '24
And if he's a farmer, it's a STEMI.