Me: Have you had a recent ultrasound to check out your uterus?
Patient/Drug seeker: Well, I had one of those ones where they put it up the hoo-hoo, but that was to check my heart. No one will check me for my terrible cramps. No one believes me.
Me: Noted. Did they just happen to see anything wrong with your uterus when they were checking your heart with the vaginal ultrasound?
Patient/Drug seeker: I don't know, I just need something for this pain.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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"Did they just happen to see anything wrong with your uterus when they were checking your heart with the vaginal ultrasound?"
Classic!
I love those patients who come in talking about how they are going to sue the pants off their doctor because "he didn't do anything!" and then go on to tell about the tests and labs and surgeries that didn't find anything wrong, "so the doc doesn't know what he is talking about. I mean, I'm still in pain!"
Oh ow.
You owe me a new roll of duct tape. I just used the last of mind to keep my head from 'asploding.
Are people really dumb enough to either really think this or think you'll believe this? Tell me this is one of those HIPAA-safe concoctions of the stupidity of several people at once, at least.
Nurse K, I read your blog often. I actually stumbled across it while trying to learn exactly what a "drug-seeker" was. I was pregnant. Reported to the ER numerous times because I felt as if I were dying. I was sent home over and over again. 31.5 weeks pregnant and I was asleep in bed when my water broke. I had vag bleeding, cramping, and I do mean SEVERE cramping. I labored for 27 hrs before requiring an emergency c section. All this time, I was abrupting. I begged for an epidural. Unknown to me, the nurses had labeled me a drug-seeker. Well, I guess I was. I was in such pain that I couldnt see straight. I WANTED ANY DRUG THEY WOULD GIVE ME! I would have taken a hammer or iron skillet over the head if it would have knocked me out. My son required 20 minutes of cpr. he did come home, fed through a g tube, had HIE, many many problems, mechanically suctioned. I was urged by nurses at the NICU he was transferred to, that i needed to file suit against the hospital and nursing staff and my dr. Taboo huh? I never ratted these nurses out and I never would. How likely is a nurse who suggests you sue to get a job, eh? Well, I consulted an attorney. But no, I didnt follow through. And it took me reading your blog to make sense of some things. Initially I blamed insensitive and uneducated, crass, mean nurses and staff for killing my son. I was so angry at them. For calling me a drug seeker, at the expense of my child. Nothing could take away the pain of finding my sweet baby lifeless and blue, the blood already pooling to the side of his little face. NOTHING! I blame society! The drug seekers who swarm into your ER DAILY looking for drugs. They made this happen to me. They cause the medical field to doubt any one in pain, given the reaction. In hindsight, I guess I appeared to be looking for meds. I went in begging for them because I hurt sooooooo bad. Time after time after time. but even more, I wanted them to find out what was wrong, but it was too late. The people plagueing the ERs and other depts, made my life hell. They caused the medical staff to think my condition was not a true medical emergency, but rather a need for narcotics. I do understand why you get so angry and fed up with them.
As much as my child deserves justice for his pain, me sueing will not fix this. I wish there was something that could be done, some way to have a magic ball and know who is faking and who isnt. If you did, maybe my life would be different. Damn those seekers, THEY killed my child.
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