Liar of the Week
"I just can't take the pain anymore. I called my doctor and he told me to come to the ER."
This heavily tattooed scruffy young man had a history of multiple ER visits for a variety of painful yet clinically subtle conditions, so I was naturally suspicious.
"Where is your pain?" I asked.
"It's this hernia, doc. Right here."
"Hmmm. I don't really feel a hernia there. It seems more like a little lymph node in your groin." He did have a scar from a previous hernia operation, however.
"My doctor told me it was scar tissue pressing on a nerve. My extra strength vicodin isn't helping a bit. I'm scheduled for surgery in 2 weeks. It really hurts, doc."
"So who is your surgeon?"
"Dr. Madeitup, in a little town an hour away."
"So why did you come all the way up here? It seems to me like your surgeon would want to take a look for himself."
"I come up here every weekend. Besides, I like this hospital. Y'all have always treated me real good here."
"Well, I guess we should do a CT scan and see what's hurting so much. I'll try to contact your surgeon and discuss things with him too."
"He's out of town all week. Can I just get a shot for the pain? And a prescription for some sleeping pills? I can't sleep because of the pain."
"Maybe he's got his beeper on. I'll be back in a couple of minutes and we'll see what we can do for you."
"I'm just gonna leave. I've waited here long enough."
"Bye."
Labels: ER, lying punks, nightshifts, pain, patients
posted by scalpel at 1:52 AM
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In the daily of grind of the clinic, we have our version of this lying Sack o' Sh*t:
Patient haranguing his/her PCP, my front staff and ultimately me about how they just HAVE to be seen "right away" for condition X. No amount of expanation about how condition X isn't really that emergent a problem, or how tied up I am seems to work.
SoS offered appointment the next morning at 11 AM. "Oh, I can't make it then, I have a hair cut appontment."
The best is when they say 'I'm leaving!' and they act like we should be begging them to stop.
Don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out and have a nice day.
Why put just Bubba's picture up? Lying about a sexual encounter under oath surely pales in comparison to the lies perpetrated by Dubya, Cheney, Rove and co. in getting us into the Iraqui morass?
Cuz it's my blog. I don't regurgitate liberal talking points on my blog.
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