The Cardinal Rule
photo creditER Tech dude: "Doc, I got a lady on the phone who wants to know if she should bring her kid in to be seen."
Me: "For what?"
ER Tech dude: "The kid drank out of a water fountain and then Mom noticed that there was a dead bird in it."
Me: "Is she sure it wasn't a bat?"
ER Tech dude: "Was it a bat, ma'am?" ... (listening) ... "Nope, it was a cardinal."
You can't make this stuff up.
Labels: ER, nightshifts, patients
posted by scalpel at 12:45 PM
11 Comments:
Okay, now I don't feel so bad about calling the pediatrician four years ago because my 2-year-old was sucking on a hard piece of cat turd she found in the playground's sand box.
I was sure the doctor was going to send Child Protective Services to my house. But she knows I'm neurotic even though I have three kids.
I always imagine when I'm on the phone that the nurse covers the phone with her hand and yells down the hall, "Dr. K! It's the Smith woman. Again."
Doctor yells back, "What's it this time?"
Nurse responds, "Her kid's sucking on cat turds; I'll put her on hold."
That is pretty grody. Birds are gross.
What's the official policy on telling people whether they should come to the ER or not?
Nice!
"What's the official policy on telling people whether they should come to the ER or not?"
There is no upside to discouraging potential customers at any place of business. Particularly customers who might sue you if anything bad happens to them.
The Cardinal Rule is not "don't drink out of water fountains with dead birds in them" it's "anybody who calls the ER should be encouraged to come on in for evaluation."
Sounds like it's time to dump another industrial-strength size container of Chlorine into the shallow end of the gene pool....
Check this out--http://catsinsinks.com/
Very funny. Keep clicking until you see the ginormous (love that word, so glad it is one now) cat sitting in the sink like a human.
ewwww !!! the dead bird is not so bad compared to the cat turd!! this sort- of reminds me of the movie "caddyshack" where they were all in the pool and a big turd was floating around in it and the guy picks it up smells it then takes a bite of it...causing the lady to pass out!! rofl still to this day, CLASSIC !!! Stacy......
oops, I left out the part, come to find out the turd was just a baby ruth candy bar!!! LOL
What If It Was A Bat?
Awwww, Dr. Happy, you beat me to the punch...i was going to tell everyone about you bat story...
PS Love the cat picture...thanks!
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