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Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:14:00 -0000

I wish I could get my altered mental status patient to keep her clothes on! I am an rotating through IM as an intern now. Man am I glad I am not doing this for a living.

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angrycanrn — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:06:00 -0000

Ahhh, yes. I also love it when I get the post-ictal seizure patient to my unit who has been incontinent. He is, ALWAYS fully clothed, with a foley inserted via the fly in his soiled and soaked jeans. Not even the sweatshirt off before starting the IV. So the abscessed heroin injection site got missed.... and therefore the endocarditis.
If only people could THINK and do their jobs...

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Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:49:00 -0000

Can I pretty please keep my undies on if I am being admitted for asthma? Or at least a gown....can I have a gown please, it's cold

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Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:32:00 -0000

Amen. This is why I like surgery and trauma surgery. When I was on gen surg, the nurses stripped them buck naked and put them in a gown for me to see them. In trauma surgery, we just cut them all off ourselves.

What really killed me what our standardized patients in an OSCE with multiple layers of clothing. I've got 10 minutes, dammit, and I'm not spending half the time removing your stupid clothes.

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EE — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:50:00 -0000

I. Love. You.

Totally awesome. Agreed 100%.

I like the prisoner one the best, haha.

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paula — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:51:00 -0000

I think maybe the staff need to know that you want your patients naked when you enter the room...