Excuse me? I am not sure how being curt is viewed as rude. If I’m curt or short with you, it is because time is of the essence. Someone who doesn’t understand curtness said that to me the other day. They were also offended by the “foul language” that was being used in the nurses’ …
Category: patient Stories
I must be delirious…
I think that delirium happens on nights. People who normally have sense lose it and act like they say to each other, “let’s call the nurse practitioner,” for everything. It began legitimately with an admission, that for a change needed to be admitted. There are times that you see someone who has “given up.” It …
Please don’t diagnose addiction…
Let me say this situation is the latest in a stream of crap that has rolled by me in my professional life. So tonight, a patient presented in the ER, that was reported to the ER physician by his wife and his bishop, as having a substance use problem. For those of you not in …
I’ve seen things, and I’ve done things…
I wouldn’t recommend it. Honestly, I don’t think anyone would. Everyone knows what PTSD is. It inundates the news, and honestly, not only does it get a little heavy on how overused it is, but how many people claim to have PTSD. It does not say that PTSD in a person does not exist, …