Awesome-thanks! Do another one about how many diseases show up in the ER and that eating is a fabulous method for transmitting all KINDS of infections to yourself!
Excellent explanation! I worked in the OR and all the time people thought we were just sadists for asking if they had eaten or drunk anything since midnight (or six hours if an afternoon surgery), and cancelling surgery if they had. You can die, people! We do surgery to improve your life, not to try to take it. It is a big deal!
PTs telling me 'but I haven't eaten in 5hrs!' like this is medically relevant for 99% of people is one of those ER mind- enema specials that hurts my soul every time...
You know, after all of the years of me “teaching” clients the reasons why we do what we do, and asking if they understood and knowing in spite of their confirmations (that they understood) that they in fact, did NOT understand; I think if I’d of ended my little teaching sessions with an emphatic, “That’s why mutherfuckers!” I’d of probably gotten through to so many more patients… thanks anyway! From a very happily retired BSN.
I remember my mom saying yrs ago my dad asked her to sneak hamburgers to him when he was supposed to be eating a certain diet at the hospital.. she said when she denied it they showed it to her on camera. She said she was so embarrassed. Meanwhile I'm just like why go against doctors orders 🙄
Awesome-thanks! Do another one about how many diseases show up in the ER and that eating is a fabulous method for transmitting all KINDS of infections to yourself!
Excellent explanation! I worked in the OR and all the time people thought we were just sadists for asking if they had eaten or drunk anything since midnight (or six hours if an afternoon surgery), and cancelling surgery if they had. You can die, people! We do surgery to improve your life, not to try to take it. It is a big deal!
PTs telling me 'but I haven't eaten in 5hrs!' like this is medically relevant for 99% of people is one of those ER mind- enema specials that hurts my soul every time...
Great info!👍
You know, after all of the years of me “teaching” clients the reasons why we do what we do, and asking if they understood and knowing in spite of their confirmations (that they understood) that they in fact, did NOT understand; I think if I’d of ended my little teaching sessions with an emphatic, “That’s why mutherfuckers!” I’d of probably gotten through to so many more patients… thanks anyway! From a very happily retired BSN.
No see, you're SUPPOSED to have your family smuggle in a few double cheeseburger meals while you're in the ER for abdominal pain/nausea.
Then vomit on the floor - next to garbage can - and blame staff for not coming quickly. Yet those food smugglers are sitting there....
I remember my mom saying yrs ago my dad asked her to sneak hamburgers to him when he was supposed to be eating a certain diet at the hospital.. she said when she denied it they showed it to her on camera. She said she was so embarrassed. Meanwhile I'm just like why go against doctors orders 🙄
I was sitting in the ER two years.ago. About a dozen people were eating.
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Mmmm, dry turkey sammie! Someone asked me to toast it for them, and I knew that my patience and/or career journey was coming to the end. 😅
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