Comments on: Random ED Weirdness

By: mike

mike — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:02:08 +0000

hell, that’s the whole reason I went into emergency medicine. Makes me feel better about myself. Kind of like watching Springer or Cops. Except it is a career. That I have to keep at for at least another 20 years….

By: hashmd

hashmd — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:21:05 +0000

True story last week in Vegas. Wife missing for two weeks. Search dogs sent into house to get scent, then went out to desert looking for her. Husband saw feet poking out from under bags of stuff she hoarded in house. Yep, it was her. Dogs couldn't smell her rotting corpse because of all the trash, rotting food, etc. inside the house. (see news story here)

By: Pattie, RN

Pattie, RN — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:29:08 +0000

…and I thought my weekly viewings of “Hoarders” and “Clean House” as motivation to be tidy and clutter free was my own little secret!

Really, no matter how messy your house is, if there are not petrified animal corpses in YOUR house you are ahead of the game!

By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:03:03 +0000

Just send a grandma to the scene of the baggy pants guy.

“Put your pants up, boy!”

“Yes ma’am.”

Problem solved.

By: Sarah G

Sarah G — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:06:34 +0000

I’m thinking a show w/Stupid ED customers would make an excellent World’s Dumbest episode (Smoking Gun, Tru TV).

By: tracy

tracy — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:35:59 +0000

Got to love the part about mosquito bites…gee, same thing happens to about all of us, i think.
“Hoarders” makes me feel a little better about my housekeeping…….heh.

By: Sarah G

Sarah G — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:39:24 +0000

I’m with Steve. It makes me feel like a good housekeeper. Ditto IHOP… although my addiction to pancakes is another factor.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:05:07 +0000

I watch Hoarders because it makes me feel normal and it makes my usual messiness around the house seem insignificant.

Kind of like how Lewis Black said: My health club is the International House of Pancakes…because no matter how much you weigh, there is always someone there who weighs AT LEAST 200 pounds more than you!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:02:09 +0000

Lookin like a fool with your pants on the ground.

By: Tarl Neustaedter

Tarl Neustaedter — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:57:49 +0000

On pants too low… It appears that the correct way to wear your pants is to have the belt line below the buttocks in back but above the genitalia in front – and keep your waist partially bent as you shuffle so the pants don’t fall off.

This weekend I saw a teenager so attired, skateboarding. He was trying one of those tricks where you jump up a curb while on the skateboard, and missed. I have a suspicion that his inability to fully straighten his legs may have caused a lower jump than he intended.

In any case, he came down hard on his hip, which evidently had only a thin layer of boxer shorts to cover his skin. By the time he got up (he’d tumbled pretty hard), the blood had soaked his boxers and was threatening his jeans. He was more annoyed by that prospect than by the evident road rash he’d acquired.

Could have been worse – he wasn’t wearing a helmet, either.