"can you tell me why you came in today?" "no, i have no idea"

working in the er, you hear this all the time.
in 4 hours alone today i heard it over 20 times. my favorite part is when people come in by ambulance and we ask, so what brings you in today. Usually they say ambulance or once again, they have no idea. so we keep going back and forth with "you have no idea why your here, in the er, or why the ambulance brought you in?" "no i have no idea"

seriously?

its one thing if these people come in and there mentally unstable or a trauma case, but when you come in talking and laughing, but have no idea why really?
i really love it too when they do that and then they wanna know when they can leave. uhm. you called 911 they brought you to us and you wanna leave..
my favorite, from that, is when theres a large amount of blood coming from goodness knows where but they dont know why and they just want to go home. yep. your pretty awesome..


Everyday i come home from work and ask my self why are people so stupid. and natural selection.. no. doesnt happen. i wish, but doesnt.

people die daily. not new news.. the funny, in a coincidental way of course, is the people that die are usually the ones with families and lives. *this doesnt mean i want people to die cuz i dont, and i dont believe in euthanasia in any way* but the people who come in and dont die are the people who have been in prison for aweful things, people who OD on only God knows what pretty much every week.. people like that. its quite ridiculous and sad.

Theres alot that runs through your mind when you hear that an overdose or attempted suicide is coming in.

i tend to pray for the families before they get there and pray that if God's will is for them to live, then they learn something from it. this rarely happens because God gave us free will and people+free will=complete stupidity..

besides that thought you always ask yourself, "what was going through their head?"
really, what in their life is so bad that they feel the needed to try anything like that to begin with and do it so much that you pretty much end up CTD (circling the drain) when you get to us?

although not every case is the same.. some people are sucidal, some do it because they cant get high enough, some do it because they wanted to try it (both drugs and sometimes strangling which will end up looking like suicide), and my favorite! when they do it for the attention. attention getters are why we call it the "drama room" they do just enough to get the attention they want and may black out, but that will only get them more attention.. and when they get to us and we give them narcan/charcoal/ammonia sniff they freak out and become obnoxiously loud and NO ONE can take them seriously anymore..
thats when we all say "drama team to the emergency room stat..."

dramatics get you no where fast in the er. and if you think not telling things is gonna get you out faster, boyy are you way off..