Comments on: Another Pet Peeve

By: rn

rn — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:50:38 +0000

Too Funny…have been known , regularly to tilt head & say, Excuse me I couldn’t understand whatever you said,… of course w/ a Killer Smile …..
Old habits die hard & GUILTY of “ER” terminology….

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:25:18 +0000

Did she even try the Motrin first? My son had a fever of 107 once. Called the pediatrician because Tylenol was not bringing the fever down. He told me to give him Tylenol and Motrin at the same time. It brought it down to 101 and my son was/is fine.

By: Why I’m a Bad Doctor - Part I « WhiteCoat’s Call Room

Why I’m a Bad Doctor - Part I « WhiteCoat’s Call Room — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:03:26 +0000

[...] I had three different patients infer that I was a bad doctor in one day. I’m starting to get a complex. Oh well, at least none of them spoke in Baby Talk. [...]

By: DonSalva

DonSalva — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:17:45 +0000

You can’t stand cell phones, I don’t have one. Never have, never needed one. Mainly because I can’t phone due my impairment but then again I never really saw a need to have them.

Want to contact me? Mail me!
Want to chat with me? ICQ me!

I don’t like being on “call” and available 24/7. No thanks!

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:30:54 +0000

Oh my gosh! That was hilarious! It could be a scene in a movie.

I could just see Steve Martin’s face while playing the annoyed doctor.

I never spoke baby talk to our boys, but I confess…I let them outgrow a few words on their own.

Older son would say he had an elly bake if he didn’t feel well.

Younger son thought calAppittars were neat and he liked to eat hangleburs.

Belly ache, caterpillars and hamburger.

Thanks for the laugh! Trifecta..ha ha ha !

By: MysteryMedic

MysteryMedic — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:15:13 +0000

Or we could just call it what it really is…The “This really isn’t an emergency so why are you here land!”

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:04:07 +0000

Troll

By: Rogue Medic

Rogue Medic — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:22:53 +0000

Of course, Howe is a form of Baby Type.

By: Rogue Medic

Rogue Medic — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:21:15 +0000

I’ll call you when I know more.

In her case, that will probably be never. One failure of medicine – there is still no cure for stupid.

Emergency Rooms – often individually numbered – are separate rooms within the Emergency Department. Unless you are into a Chinese box motif, and try to put smaller and smaller rooms into each other. Some of these emergency rooms are not much bigger than my ambulance. My ambulance is also not an emergency room. It is my office.

In the world of one big kumbaya emergency room, there would be no practice of Hallway Medicine, since your patient is not in the hallway, but in the emergency room. Howe can the patient be in the hallway, if the patient is in the room?

Emergency room is an anachronism, just as nurses wearing white hats and genuflecting to doctors is an anachronism. At least it should be.

If department is reminiscent of Sears, maybe unit as in ICU, should be reminiscent of NASA, or Jiffy Lube, or some other non-medical place. Emergency room is just bad English. Maybe it should be classified as Baby Talk?

By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:46:48 +0000

I call it Emergency Room (sorry WC) because nurse K makes me

Music to my ears right there.