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shinigamieyes2339 karma

Omg yes! I about fell out of my chair in report. Took care of the guy a few separate times. Really nice guy young good-looking. Apparently he had like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis I can't remember it's been too long. Basically what happened is this guy's immune system attacked his intestines to the point that a canal formed between his bowels and his bladder allowing both fecal matter and gas to travel into his bladder. Dude literally pooped and farted out of his penis and had a raging urinary infection.

shinigamieyes2334 karma

Omg! I'm so sorry but I just laughed so hard at that! I'm glad your mom would have appreciated that :)

shinigamieyes2332 karma

It honestly depends on what kind of Hospital you're at. We're taught to respect the doctors and to only act professionally with them, to never disagree in a way that seems insubordinate. That being said, when I worked at a magnet Hospital that was also a teaching Hospital, the doctors treated us with the utmost respect and worked alongside of us. They valued our opinions and included Us in the team and decision-making process. When I went to a regular Hospital it was kind of a shell shock when I began being treated like an idiot or a secretary by The Physician staff. I was even more horrified to find out that there are no real consequences for them in that type of environment. I have been screamed at, had my hands slapped in the OR, been talked to like a dog, had a Dr not treat the patient appropriately because I made them angry, had sexist comments. I still always treated them with respect for the benefit of the patient

shinigamieyes2324 karma

That depends on what kind you're taking about. Actual horrific nightmares are one thing. Nightmare stories omg there so many... The guy who pooped out of his penis, The guy with an erection lasting longer than 4 hours, Prostitutes propositioning me while kicking her feet to her ears and calling me her jelly bean queen, Alcohol intoxications, STDs like you wouldn't believe, Crazy parents threatening to kill me in the parking lot, Crazy sundowning elderly people...

Edit: a word and punctuation Edit 2: fixed a preposition

shinigamieyes2319 karma

Yes! I had a woman come in complaining of contractions at about 32 weeks so I have to do labor check. I know what the problem is the second I hit the door. If you've ever smelled trichomonas you'll never forget it. So I put her on the monitor everything looks fine some contractions a little pattern nothing too scary mostly irritability. I do all the lab work tell the doctor to run a test for trichomonas it comes back super positive we get the prescription to treat her and the order to send her home after treatment with follow-up instructions. So I go back in and discreetly explain to her that she has trichomonas and it is causing her uterus to contract. She told me she's known about the trichomonas but she's refusing treatment because she saw online that it might hurt her baby and that she had researched it and that she didn't want to take any medicine. I calmly explain to her that at her stage in pregnancy the medication was safer than delivering her baby. She argued with me for a while so I went and print it out my own crap from the interwebs to convince her to treat her STD. The worst part was having to do a manual vag check. I'm short and my face was in there. Ugh