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Sorry my response is so late but.., guess who woke up at midnight thirty with, you guessed it; a stomach bug…lol
I had to stay home and when I called the ward staff to tell them that and why, they confirmed it is still a major problem and they are having to hold, rehydrate and observe plenty of folks in ER for it but the lovely doc I spoke to took the time to assess my symptoms over the phone, told me exactly what to do and I am complying 100%. I need to be better by tomorrow and now that I’ve been able to get some anti-barf meds and fluids into me, life seems bearable again.
Enough of my whiny tales of woe and what I overheard with the patient who sounded so much like our Guntress. I missed some of it because the doc must have had his back turned to me and was no doubt trying to be discrete.
But the patient kept refusing suggestions in a pretty passive-aggressive way. I heard phrases, some repeatedly along the lines of:
“I don’t think that would work for me.”
“They’ve tried that before and it didn’t work/ I stopped that med because the side effects were too bad and I felt awful all the time.”
I’m not sure but I THINK Metformin was one of the refused treatments.
Patient was being sucky sweet in tone but hell bent on getting her way; clearly.
Bear in mind, my local emerg has unbelievably bad sound insulation and other conversations means I may have missed crucial details.
Patient did ask for some prescriptions and repeatedly, doc was clearly refusing. I didn’t hear what they were for as it was too noisy at that point; another patient was close to coding and that raised the noise levels.
She wasn’t the only non-compliant patient… there were far too many who were loudly refusing consent for even blood work, meds and treatment. The first days of lovely spring weather around here tends to ramp up the level of crazy in emerg…lol
But man, I felt like an unwilling participant in one of Chantal’s bogus medical dramas.
And when I practiced, anyone needing 6 litres of fluid was extremely ill and usually really fat and dehydrated.
I had to stay home and when I called the ward staff to tell them that and why, they confirmed it is still a major problem and they are having to hold, rehydrate and observe plenty of folks in ER for it but the lovely doc I spoke to took the time to assess my symptoms over the phone, told me exactly what to do and I am complying 100%. I need to be better by tomorrow and now that I’ve been able to get some anti-barf meds and fluids into me, life seems bearable again.
Enough of my whiny tales of woe and what I overheard with the patient who sounded so much like our Guntress. I missed some of it because the doc must have had his back turned to me and was no doubt trying to be discrete.
But the patient kept refusing suggestions in a pretty passive-aggressive way. I heard phrases, some repeatedly along the lines of:
“I don’t think that would work for me.”
“They’ve tried that before and it didn’t work/ I stopped that med because the side effects were too bad and I felt awful all the time.”
I’m not sure but I THINK Metformin was one of the refused treatments.
Patient was being sucky sweet in tone but hell bent on getting her way; clearly.
Bear in mind, my local emerg has unbelievably bad sound insulation and other conversations means I may have missed crucial details.
Patient did ask for some prescriptions and repeatedly, doc was clearly refusing. I didn’t hear what they were for as it was too noisy at that point; another patient was close to coding and that raised the noise levels.
She wasn’t the only non-compliant patient… there were far too many who were loudly refusing consent for even blood work, meds and treatment. The first days of lovely spring weather around here tends to ramp up the level of crazy in emerg…lol
But man, I felt like an unwilling participant in one of Chantal’s bogus medical dramas.
And when I practiced, anyone needing 6 litres of fluid was extremely ill and usually really fat and dehydrated.
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