Dr. Grumpy: "So how did this all start?"
Mrs. Trayler: "Well, on Sunday, I was doing some cleaning, and suddenly I couldn't move my right arm, and my daughter said my speech was slurred. So we went to Local Hospital."
Dr. Grumpy: "Hang on..." (logs into the Local Hospital records) "That's weird, the hospital has no record of you being treated there. Are you sure you went to this hospital?"
Mrs. Trayler: "Yeah, but I didn't stay. The lobby was full, and I was worried I'd have to wait, so I left."
Dr. Grumpy: "You left the hospital with a stroke?!!!"
Mrs. Trayler: "I had to. I mean, the NASCAR race was gonna start."
WOW!
ReplyDeleteMy word verification: Phoca
any phocal deficits!! :)
Where the hell do you live?
ReplyDeleteWhile still chuckling over the Redundant Radiologist I nearly missed the subtlety of "Mrs Trayler". Well played, sir.
ReplyDeleteMan, that must have been tough, watching the race with her beer hand disabled.
Hehe my kinda woman, I bet she's a Tony Stewart fan
ReplyDeleteUm, I think I may have dated this woman's son in high school.
ReplyDeleteUhhhh maybe assure her that next time she's having a stroke that she won't have to wait... too long (hopefully?) if she goes to the ER
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Jaxs
Well, jeez, we're talking NASCAR here! Of course watching the race is far more important than treating a stroke! (Yeah, and if her beer hand was disabled, so she used her other hand for the beer, how could she eat her pork rinds???)
ReplyDelete*Pulls out hair*
ReplyDeleteAnd another idiot tries to take themselves outta the pool.
ReplyDelete"And my pit crew was waiting for me."
ReplyDeleteFlawed logic. If a NASCAR fan has a stroke, how would you even notice?
ReplyDeleteIf only they'd been showing the race in the waiting room, I bet she'd have stayed!
ReplyDeleteAnd to think this woman has already reproduced....
ReplyDeleteAt least she made it in to see you. That's a great improvement over some of your patients.
ReplyDeleteGuessing we're outside the tPA time frame?
Be fair: she left the hospital with a problematic left arm and a slur, no? She didn't have a diagnosis of a stroke?
ReplyDeleteHow the heck are patients supposed to diagnose themselves?
Did she talk to a triage nurse at the hospital and get told to just sit and wait? Or did she leave without even that?
Patients think we're Burger King, they can drive through and have it their way. And get home in time for NASCAR.
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"I mean, I had it on DVR, but that was when I was planning to watch it."
ReplyDeletesome fans are born, not made
ReplyDeleteAwesome. And it's a woman! A gear head after my heart....
ReplyDelete"Maybe I should have gotten to the hospital earlier, but I really wanted to see the rest of that infomercial."
ReplyDelete"And if I miss the explanation at the beginning, I can never follow what's happening."
ReplyDelete"And I figured one of the guys down at Jack Strappe's Sports Bar would know how to deal with it. Plus, if I don't get there in time, someone else always sits in my favorite stool."
ReplyDelete"And ever since I saw that movie where the race car flips over and goes flying off the track and lands in the hospital waiting room and explodes, I've had this phobia."
ReplyDelete"And, while my husband and his buddies are watching the race, that's my chance to slip off to a motel room with his brother."
ReplyDeleteI fail to see this the issue here. It's quite simple. Kasey Kahne is behind the wheel, as long as I have a pulse I am in front of the TV.
ReplyDeleteNuff said. : D
Did you inform her that in the future when she strokes out, it's the golden ticket to the front of the line?
ReplyDeleteI tried but I can't roll my eyes hard enough.
Tracy
"Good job, we couldn't have done anything for you anyway...too good for tPA, afterall...Here are the orders for your outpatient dopplers/echos and the wacky labs for clotting disorders that are never positive...Now quit smoking and eating so many damn hamburgers!" There, no need for the hospital afterall.
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