Comments on: Mr. Wayne

By: 911doc

911doc — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:37:30 +0000

mr wayne is now officially part of our ‘catalog of er and ems abuse’ post (link at bottom). he has a fixed delusion, unfortunately not very ammenable to psychiatric or psychologic intervention.

if you are the kind of person who enjoys the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard you may want to read many of the worthy comments to the below post over at our place just so you know why your insurance premiums are through the roof and why you had to wait six hours to be seen in the ER (hint, mention ‘chest pain’ and you will come right back but your bill will be huge).

http://docsontheweb.blogspot.com/2009/04/mdod-catalog-of-er-and-ems-abuse.html

By: Curt Sampson

Curt Sampson — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:42:59 +0000

Oh, the best by far was, “Physician told him that only way to do so was to insert Foley catheter to measure urine output. Left without further treatment.”

Now if only all of his complaints needed a catheter….

By: artillerywifecq

artillerywifecq — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:55:41 +0000

I think you work with me, we have a woman like that. Got to love those patients.

By: DocsGirl

DocsGirl — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:25:28 +0000

One word: WOW.

Somehow, I feel like this post should be handed out to patients in the ER who complain about the long waits.

By: emergencyem

emergencyem — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:28:07 +0000

Ah, love it.

I laughed hardest at this part, “Ophthalmologist…took bottle of caulk home with him.”

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:03:54 +0000

Wow. Funny in a sad way. All the negative energy flowing through him and the time wasted. Feel for the for the ER and other medical professionals too.

By: Dr. J.

Dr. J. — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:35:53 +0000

I had a patient very similar to this fellow at my old inner city practice. I’m sure everyone in the local emerg thought he had a psychotic illness, but he actually had totally out of control obsessive compulsive disorder. For the fellow I was caring for I put him on a strict regieme of observation in my waiting room for 3 hours every time he came in with these sorts of complaints. I told him that we’d do no testing but keep a careful eye on him. He ended up sitting quietly in my waiting room reading for many days while making sure he wasn’t poisoned…sort of a non-solution but I bet the local emerg appreciated his relocation.
Great post!
Dr. J.

By: RJS

RJS — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:07:13 +0000

I don’t find any of this hard to believe, even though it’s all the same person. I can’t tell you the number of people we (try to) soothe at the pharmacy just to keep them from tying up needless medical resources.

I can only hope that my tax dollars aren’t paying for this guy’s paranoia. Why hasn’t he been referred to psych?

By: theGeneva

theGeneva — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:44:01 +0000

I wonder how long it will be before he gets a psyche eval?

His obession with poisons is a bit un-nerving to say the least!

By: Dr. WhiteCoat

Dr. WhiteCoat — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:34:54 +0000

I swear that all these complaints are from only one person. And I agree with ER Nursey that truth is more amusing than fiction.