Me: I've got this lady who needs to be admitted for [something uninteresting]. She looks OK, but her blood sugar is 450.
Hospitalist: That sounds fine. Put her on the floor.
Me: It'll be a while. You want me to give her some insulin in the meantime to get her blood sugar under control?
Hospitalist: Sure. What type of insulin does she usually take?
Me: There are different types of insulin?
Long silence.
Hospitalist: Yeeees.
Me: Oh really? Damn, that's a new one.
Hospitalist: You are kidding, right?
Me: Not as far as you know.
28 January 2009
How to mess with a hospitalist
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6 comments:
You are a bad, bad man. :)
I nearly "Oh, by the way, will this interact with my coumadin?" 'd my new internist, but I didn't want him to fire me as a patient after only one appointment, LOL!
Haha, *classic* :)
Oh that's brilliant! I'm going to have to try that with one of the charge nurses who is particularly high strung!
Hopefully this conversation occurred at about 3 am.
That is great. I have no friggin' clue how to use anything except regular!
HAH!
Thanks for the laugh. That would have been a good one.
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