February 21st, 2010 by Happy Hospitalist in Better Health Network, Humor, True Stories
Tags: Crickets, Critical Care, Doctor Humor, ICU, Internal Medicine, Physician Humor
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It’s 2:00 am in the emergency room. That’s when the real doctor humor stories comes out to play. By now I’ve sent two patients home from the ER, one of which I spent 90 minutes discussing why chronic abdominal pain management needed to involve an outpatient supratentorial component and why coming into the hospital would be a highly disappointing experience. By now I’ve also admitted two patients to observation status, one of which is a guy with uncontrolled diabetes who remembered me from a year prior and thanked me for telling him nobody else was going to live his life for him and he needed to take responsibility for his poor actions in life. By now I’ve also brought two patients in for full hospital admission, one of which was placed immediately on end of life cares for end stage COPD, the other of which who’s son got the wrath of my smoking lecture.
Once the work was done, the doctor humor came out to play. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Happy Hospitalist*
February 19th, 2010 by Bongi in Better Health Network, Humor, True Stories
Tags: Aspirin, Gastric Bleed, General Surgery, Inappropriate, Patient Behavior, Proposition, smoking, South Africa, Surgery, Twilight Zone, Ulcer
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We can sometimes look good in our jobs. I suppose it comes with the territory. But sometimes this is not a good thing.
Danville is an interesting place. Actually the place itself is drab but it is full of interesting people. To say it is populated by the lower echelons of the gene pool is an understatement of note. For some reason every reprobate and inbreed seems to have found their way there. Throw a few generations of fetal alcohol syndrome into the mix and you have the average Danville resident. Then add a strong predilection to grandpa (a local aspirin caffeine headache powder) to round off with. Usually when they presented to the hospital it is with a bleeding peptic ulcer or a perforated peptic ulcer. In fact they seldom present to us with anything else. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at other things amanzi*
February 12th, 2010 by Happy Hospitalist in Better Health Network, Humor
Tags: Military, Surgery, Surgical History, Veteran
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So I’m working on my history and physical examination and I ask my 87 year old retired vet what types of surgeries he’s had done.
“I’ve had every surgery in the book”, he says
So I asked him, “Have you had a sex change operation?”
“Well, no. I guess I haven’t had everything done.”
After a good group laugh, I went off to eat lunch.
*This blog post was originally published at The Happy Hospitalist Blog*
