Stupid, stupid doctors!!

OMG. That's just horrible.

When I was in nursing school I was doing a psych rotation. The hospital was horrible. There was an older man who was obviously having a heart attack out in the lounge area of the ward. Me and my fellow student run over to him and start assessing. Paleness, sweating, crushing pain, poor circulation, racing heart rate.... needs a trip to the ER for assessment.

I told the NP on duty this, and she ordered the ambulance ride. WELL....the rest of the staff said this man was faking and I shouldn't have fallen for it. That he was *****ing about pain in his chest a lot lately. The pdoc actually cancelled the ambulance order.... I got a bit ticked. The NP was intimidated and didn't fight back. I asked the pdoc how he knew the man was faking when he hadn't even gone over to assess. The man's medical record had a clear history of cardiac issues. At least cover your *** by getting him checked out...even if you did think he was faking....

I ended up having to go to my clinical instructor and tell her what was going on. The guy ended up getting his ambulance ride. Oh, and he was in the early stages of a heart attack. The rest of the psych hospital staff would have let him die. I tell that story to every nursing student who comes through my unit.

That doc is a jackass. It is a rare occurence, but steroids can and do cause psychotic episodes in otherwise healthy people. And they can cause manic or hypomanic episodes in those folks predisposed to bipolar. If they are truly necessary there are other meds that can be given at the same time to minimize the unwanted effects. But that would require the doc admitting they don't know everything...and they would actually have to go look this stuff up!

Haha!
Too much effort, and anyway, they know EVERYTHING, so don't you dare question the medical "geniuses" that they are. lol

Not to take away from the theme of the thread, and the OP's angst...

but I knew what was going on and called my friend, a retired surgeon and didn't say the dx, but shared with him mom's symptoms and HE called it immediately! The stupid doctor in the hospital is also the one who said mom had cancer. She doesn't. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Sorry your doctor is one of those monsters, and yeah I think they all have a black hole for a brain. Most of mine do, I rather go to a butcher some times. If you write a letter, from my own experiance with writing letters they some how end up in your perminent chart. My doctor, the love of my life for 16 years, clued me too this. There are a few gems among the muck. Any way I went an seen this rhumatologist doctor about my joints swelling and aching, he examined me from across the room, and proceded to tell me that there was nothing wrong, sent me out the door with a lab paper and said to come back in four weeks. I came back and he was 3 times nasty and said nothing was wrong, could of done that with a phone call. I wrote a nasty letter to him, using the computer so I had the spell check in hand. I sent the letter to the office and it was used in my chart and my doctor who knew and thought I had issues with depression said that it really proved that that was what was wrong, so it really made me angry that nothing could be done. Maybe you could go to the better business baurough

I am glad there are good medical folks in the world...the positive voices give us hope that not EVERYONE is a jackass.... Actually, I think most of us medical folk are doing our best. It's just that the bad ones are so very bad.....