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Narcissistic_Alcoholic
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Narcissistic_Alcoholic • upvoted 3 items 1 month ago
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I'm not a doctor but I was EMS for a few years and one day we came up on an accident on the highway involving a motor cyclist and a minivan, usually that is not good, at all...it's always a mess.. We get there and find out he hit the minivan at 80 MPH while it was stopped on the side of the road and flew through the back window, through to the front and survived without a scratch on him, no broken bone no AMS (altered mental status aka blunt head trauma)... he even got himself out the van and asked if the people inside were okay. He was wearing a helmet and I think that saved his life.
Blew my mind.
aerinjl1 reply
Not a doctor but I do medical research which includes chart abstractions. I was abstracting a chart on a 90+year old rancher in Montana - still an active dude without any major health issues. I was abstracting what lead up to his minor heart attack and couldn't hardly believe the ICD-9 codes so I went into the more granular notes. A storm rolled in while he was checking on the cattle so he hopped on his 4 wheeler to get home. BOOM he gets hit by lightning causing him to wreck his 4-wheeler. He must have been okay because he gets up and starts hobbling home - only to step on a rattlesnake and get bitten. Shakes that off too and manages to get home only to have a heart attack while waiting for medical services to get to his rural home. This dude had ICD-9 codes for lightning strike, motor vehicle accident, snake bite, and heart attack all on the same day. Spent like 4 days in the hospital and went home seemingly no worse for wear.
D**n I hope I'm that resilient at 90.
*Edit* There are no HIPAA identifiers here - I just did my kazillionth HIPAA training last month. Even specifying from Montana is okay. You aren't suppose to disclose age for patient's 89+ but 'such ages and elements may be aggregated into a single category of age 90 or older'. I'm not even sure the dude was over 90 - I just remember he was old-old.
anon reply
I'm not a doctor but I was EMS for a few years and one day we came up on an accident on the highway involving a motor cyclist and a minivan, usually that is not good, at all...it's always a mess.. We get there and find out he hit the minivan at 80 MPH while it was stopped on the side of the road and flew through the back window, through to the front and survived without a scratch on him, no broken bone no AMS (altered mental status aka blunt head trauma)... he even got himself out the van and asked if the people inside were okay. He was wearing a helmet and I think that saved his life.
Blew my mind.
aerinjl1 reply
Not a doctor but I do medical research which includes chart abstractions. I was abstracting a chart on a 90+year old rancher in Montana - still an active dude without any major health issues. I was abstracting what lead up to his minor heart attack and couldn't hardly believe the ICD-9 codes so I went into the more granular notes. A storm rolled in while he was checking on the cattle so he hopped on his 4 wheeler to get home. BOOM he gets hit by lightning causing him to wreck his 4-wheeler. He must have been okay because he gets up and starts hobbling home - only to step on a rattlesnake and get bitten. Shakes that off too and manages to get home only to have a heart attack while waiting for medical services to get to his rural home. This dude had ICD-9 codes for lightning strike, motor vehicle accident, snake bite, and heart attack all on the same day. Spent like 4 days in the hospital and went home seemingly no worse for wear.
D**n I hope I'm that resilient at 90.
*Edit* There are no HIPAA identifiers here - I just did my kazillionth HIPAA training last month. Even specifying from Montana is okay. You aren't suppose to disclose age for patient's 89+ but 'such ages and elements may be aggregated into a single category of age 90 or older'. I'm not even sure the dude was over 90 - I just remember he was old-old.
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Troidin reply
My mum's laptop wallpaper was a picture of her granddaughter. I copied the picture 100 times and made her wallpaper a slide show of the same picture over and over again, so the file would change but nothing would change visibly on the monitor. The pictures would change every 10 seconds. On one of the images I painted a tiny little curly moustache on her. So randomly for 10 seconds my niece would have a moustache. My mum thought she was either losing her mind or had a computer virus and everytime the moustache popped up, it was gone by the time she tried to show anyone.
Here_4_the_INFO reply
Anesthesiologist: "OK, we're going to go to sleep now." Me: "I think ONE of us should stay awake"... and I was out.
mcnessa32 reply
The nurse assisting with my vasectomy said, “I think I’m going to be sick” and ran out of the room. I looked at my doctor and said that’s not the usual reaction I get when I drop my pants. It took him 10 minutes to compose himself.
Briar_Knight reply
I have seen a patient pull off a pretty good one. "Wanna hear a joke? How do you keep an anesthetist in suspense?".
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anon reply
I'm not a doctor but I was EMS for a few years and one day we came up on an accident on the highway involving a motor cyclist and a minivan, usually that is not good, at all...it's always a mess.. We get there and find out he hit the minivan at 80 MPH while it was stopped on the side of the road and flew through the back window, through to the front and survived without a scratch on him, no broken bone no AMS (altered mental status aka blunt head trauma)... he even got himself out the van and asked if the people inside were okay. He was wearing a helmet and I think that saved his life.
Blew my mind.
aerinjl1 reply
Not a doctor but I do medical research which includes chart abstractions. I was abstracting a chart on a 90+year old rancher in Montana - still an active dude without any major health issues. I was abstracting what lead up to his minor heart attack and couldn't hardly believe the ICD-9 codes so I went into the more granular notes. A storm rolled in while he was checking on the cattle so he hopped on his 4 wheeler to get home. BOOM he gets hit by lightning causing him to wreck his 4-wheeler. He must have been okay because he gets up and starts hobbling home - only to step on a rattlesnake and get bitten. Shakes that off too and manages to get home only to have a heart attack while waiting for medical services to get to his rural home. This dude had ICD-9 codes for lightning strike, motor vehicle accident, snake bite, and heart attack all on the same day. Spent like 4 days in the hospital and went home seemingly no worse for wear.
D**n I hope I'm that resilient at 90.
*Edit* There are no HIPAA identifiers here - I just did my kazillionth HIPAA training last month. Even specifying from Montana is okay. You aren't suppose to disclose age for patient's 89+ but 'such ages and elements may be aggregated into a single category of age 90 or older'. I'm not even sure the dude was over 90 - I just remember he was old-old.
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