Scary moments at clinic
 

Why do they stick stickers on the front of you chart at clinic... then cover the front with the lab work, xray, ect paperwork paperclipped over the front of it. due to my sever allergy to iodine there are 5 sticker on my chart..
my heart almost stopped (not literally) well maybe yes literally. I went to the infusion lab yesterday my 4th trip in there to have a pint of blood drained off and thrown in the trash again, not sure who was more scared me or the nurse when I saw the betadine swab headed to my arm, didnt realize I yelled but evidently the aftermath proved I must have yelled the NOOOOOOO and jerked my arm away from her and pushed her betadine soaked swab and hand away from me. I snatched the drape she had put under my arm and started trying to wipe off what had already been swiped onto my inner elbow area... another nurse came running over and started with alcohol helping get it wiped off. Thank God for benedryl in my bag on Johnny Walker Red. Lucky only rash and itching left of it.
I appologized for scaring the --- out of her but ya know she never said she was sorry for putting it on me. I actually tried to make a joke that "been thinking of getting tatooed "allergic to iodine" put on my body. guess bracelets and BIG stickers are not enough

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I'm so sorry you went through that. It is just unbelievable, but yes this type of thing happens too much. I seriously think medical people get complacent because they deal with things over and over, they get tired, they get sloppy. I had a surgery and the surgeon asked me before he wrote the pain medication what I was allergic to and I told him the pain meds I was allergic to. We went through the pharmacy and guess what he wrote me? What I was allergic to!

An issue I am seeing more and more these days in hospitals and doctor offices is that no one knows how to spell anything. I have to spell out every condition I have, every medication I take, etc. It is very dangerous that these people don't have a clue.

been getting copies of my medical records and I am having a ball reading them (I used to be a nurse) During one hospitalization it says that my PCP stopped Klonopin... hummm never been on it in my life but I am on and have been since 2004 Clonidine big difference in those 2 meds
I see it in the clinic nurses it sure seems they need to have a good dose of the nurses we had back then. When I am in the hospital since the floor I am usually put on is one who I have known the head RN for many many years she will come in and ask me about the care the student nurses give. It is amazing the difference between the ones in the LPN program at the community college and the ones in the BSN program at the university guess that is why LPN actually stands for licensed PATIENTS nurse.

(sorry if offended any nurses on the board...none was intended...I understand there is great good and bad at every level of patient care...that is why it is calle "practicing medicine"