PATIENTS CAN MAKE YOU LOSE PATIENCE
During a patient's fourteen day line up meeting with his cardiologist, he told his primary care physician, that he was experiencing difficulty with one of his prescriptions. "Which one? " I inquired. "The Patch". The medical attendant advised me to put on every six hourly and now I'm coming up short on spots to put it! I had him rapidly disrobe and found what I trusted I wouldn't see. Indeed, the man had more than fifty patches on his body! Presently, the instructions incorporate evacuation of the old patch before applying another one .
I was thinking about a lady and asked, "So how's your breakfast today?" "It's generally excellent, aside from the Kentucky Jelly. I can't become acclimated to the taste," the patient re-handled. I at that point requested to see the jelly and the lady created a foil bundle named "KY". Now fortunately this story didn't bring about a death, yet demonstrates how messy writing could be a significant issue in human services.
At the point when I was doing home health, I had a patient who was requesting and could be out and out inconsiderate now and again. At a certain point he had a horrible stomach infection. One morning I went in and he was sitting at the kitchen counter looking emphatically green around the gills. I stated, "Are you okay?" He looked at me dead without flinching and stated, "Hellfire NO! That Dr. will need to take care of these damn pills he gave me. They are too large to swallow and I need to slice them down the middle, and to finish everything off, they are disgusting and make me choke when I attempt to get them down!!" I almost kicked the bucket chuckling when I understood that the "pills" were glycerin suppositories.
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