“Our Lady of Perpetual Sepsis Nursing home, this is the nursing supervisor how can I help you”
“Hi, this is Dr. ERJedi, I have a man here from your nursing home with what appears to be a 2mm paper cut on his finger. I’m just wondering if I’m missing something or if there was another reason you sent him over”
“We though we should send him over because he’s on a blood thinner and we were worried he was going to keep bleeding”
“What blood thinner is he on?”
“Tylenol”
“…”
Posted on December 7, 2012, in Emergency Medicine. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
If that isn’t good alocation of the ER’s resources and tax-payer money, I don’t know what is…
I personally love it when they send them over for bleeding for a month while keeping them on their Pradaxa, aspirin, and Plavix.