One comes across strange things in the emergency department. Today I saw something which was quite troubling, despite being extremely funny.....
I was taking some blood and putting in a drip for a patient today. Just as I pulled the needle out, the patient's grandson became very excited. He came right up beside to get front row seat for the action. He started jumping up and down as the needle went in. There were rapturous shouts of "oh cool" as the flashed back into the cannula. As I withdrew the needle and put pressure on the vein to stop it bleeding, he screamed "let it go, let it go". Then he went into a catatonic state of pleasure as the blood rushed into the blood bottle. Finally, as I was about to secure the cannula, he pleaded with me "dont put nothing on it". He wanted to see some active bleeding!!
We all had a good laugh at this over lunch. But i must say its quite disturbing, especially coming from a 5 year old. It really makes you wonder about video games, movies and media glorification of violence........
2 comments:
heheh, this one had me laughing out loud and sharing with the lab! hilarious - and scary...he's probably going to be a haematologist when he grown up. or a mortician.
yes, or maybe an anaesthesist- they love needles. but they like injecting stuff rather than taking blood out....
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