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As an ER nurse, what is the funniest reason for visit you have come across?


May 6th, 2023

A young girl around age 20 waited 8 hrs in a busy ER because her boyfriend told her her privates smelled "funny" Not a true emergency by any means.

September 4th, 2023

patient waddled in with an ingrown toenail. He'd been BIBA (brought in by ambulance). I told him to come back to the podiatry clinic tomorrow and also, a patient died of a heart attack because "you used the ambulance as a free taxi service."