Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 16 2017 06:55pm)
Totally off-topic
When I was shadowing we were doing a follow-up for a woman who had half of her bowel taken out. She went in for a UTI, they gave her some antibiotics. She went back with painful diarrhea, which is a scenario for textbook C. Diff. They told her to go home and did nothing. Eventually caused ulcerative colitis and infected her abdomen.
She nearly died because a physician was either too busy or too incompetent to recognize a textbook C-Diff infection and let it get out of hand.
A UTI is involved in a great deal of our psychosis patients. Meth as well. We get really happy when we see old fashioned schizophrenia
Real BAD is always a treat too. Manic people say the funniest shit. One guy told me I needed to change his payee in his community MH agency because he always smelled like semen. Our milieu has been pretty much all ASPD, BPD, and a couple people who are actually sick. This has actually been one of the hardest weeks of my career...there have been a few others but the part time person who helps me is in the Dominican Republic
I always forget how hard she works until she is gone. I'm getting an intern in August, but that is more like baby sitting than having real help. She seems smart though so I'm optimistic.
But lately its been meth meth meth. More than heroin even. People are starting to get it that fenty-heroin sucks lol.
That C-diff thing is pretty elementary. I'm pretty sure even one of our nurses would have caught that.
This post was edited by Skinned on Jun 16 2017 06:05pm