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Respiratory, this is ie.

Can you come down? Mr. 2lpm is desating.

So, I walk down & the nurse tells me that he is sob & sating in the
low 90s. She also tells me that he just finished getting blood. He is
in renal failure & scheduled for dialysis in the morning.

I look in on him as he on q4 txs already. He is obviously in distress,
pitting edema, crackles like crazy.

The nurse gives him some lasix as his wife watches our every move.
Since Albuterol makes everyone feel like we are doing something, I
decided to give him another useless treatment.

As I'm squirting the med in the naebulizer, his wife says to me,

"Is that really going to help with congestive heart failure?"

Touché

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Greetings

From the high desert of Southern California

Note to management

Thank you for the free dinner tonight.

But seriously, do you really think it is a good idea to feed turkey
with mashed potatoes & gravy to the night shift?

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More quotes

I have so many all from one family, I don't know which is the best...

"Someone put acid in my Dr. Pepper when I was in the bathroom"

Or

"We don't care how the drugs got into your body, we just have to work
on getting them out"

Or

"I don't know how she got into this situation again".

This is the second time in two months this 14 year old girl has been
in our er for etoh mixed with a variety of things.

Really, lady, get a clue. Your daughter is LYING TO YOU!!!

A duel

Sumdood vs Sumdood

They shot eachother dead here in Southern California on black friday. Their baby mommas got in an argument on in toys r us. So, thanks to evolution at its finest, they shot eachother. Read the story here...

http://www.freep.com/article/20081128/NEWS07/81128064/1007

Dumb asses!!!

Best order of the day

Respiratory therapy to perform pulmonary toiletry/percussion now and
prn daily for congestion.

This is for a patient who is clear & refusing med nebs. So let's beat
the crap out of her, but only once a day. And toiletry...do I keep her
toothpaste stocked? Or should housekeeping take over?

Not a good sign

When you walk into a patients room & see him connected to all of this...

It's gonna be a long night.