National Physicians Assistant Day!

I totally forgot about this beautiful Day Yesterday! National Physicians assistant day is a must and I'm not just saying this because My Sister is a Physicians Assistant. They are a must have because we don't really expect the Doctors to do the dirty work. My Sister at any moment can stitch up a cut, Diagnose an illness, prescribe medication and that is just a few of their (her) talents. I am sure my Sister is sick of my phone calls asking about illnesses because every time I call she tells me the same thing... I can't diagnose over the phone. And for some reason she doesn't do house calls. (She lives in Idaho).
So I'm asking everyone to help celebrate this day with me (a day late) Leave a comment about your funniest moments in the Hospital or Doctors Office visit.
I'll start...
Before I was married I started getting skin rashes and we couldn't figure it out. So my mom took me to a skin specialist and he of course had me drop my draws I was very nervous and the words just slipped out of my mouth..."Isn't my butt cute" I still can't believe I said that plus I left the Doctor speechless.

Another story, this one has a funny ending...(the details are a little hazy but the whole of the story is here)
When I was younger my Mom had taken me to the Doctors (checkup or sick not really sure why)
He had proceeded to push on my shoulders and legs all the things Doctors do and when he got to my shoulder he stopped he asked me if it hurt I said "yes" If I would have known what a ruckus that would have caused I would have said "no" But the next thing I know is there are about four Doctors surrounding me and they are rushing me to get x-rays they thought I might have had a growth or something serious but the end result was an extra rib up by my collar bone. (Funny Huh).

Happy National Physicians assistant day (late)

Comments

When I was in labor with Jaxson and the nurse was asking all the questions they do she asked something about if I'm on any kind of drugs and Jeremy said do the illegal ones count, like marijuanna? The look on her face was hilarious. She didn't understand that he was joking and when I laughed and said NO, he is joking. She didn't find it very funny. I think she suspected it wasn't a joke at all or something the way she treated us the rest of the time!
Shawna said…
I have a million funny stories, unfortunately due to HIPPA I can't tell most of them. Anyway I will tell one story that happened while I was doing a rotation in the E.R. There was a young lady who had abdominal pain and we couldn't find anything wrong with her on abdominal exam or lab tests. So we took an x-ray. When we looked at the film there was a bright shiny metal butterfly sitting in her abdomen. We were like how did a mature woman swallow a metal butterfly. So we went to do one more exam and sk if she remembered swallowing anything. When we did her exam we found out she was wering some pretty fancy underwear, complete with metal butterfly on the back. Who wears there lingerie to the E.R.? Never did find out why her stomache hurt though.
Becky said…
I have been to the er/ urgent care way too many times. It is scary when they recognize you.
This isn't exactly funny, but just a reminder of some of the extra things health care providers do that mean so much.
A couple months back Stiles was having an asthma flare. I took him, after steroids and a couple of treatments they sent him home. I know Stiles and knew that he wasn't doing good enough to go home, so I voiced my concerns and they sent us home anyways.
A few hours later he was doing worse, so I called and they told me just to take him into Children's, since it sounded like he would be hospitalized.
Since the next day (technically that day it was a little after midnight) was the memorial for Jessie's boyfriend, Kirk took him in.
Stiles took his favorite webkinz. They kept him overnight.
When they got home Stiles was upset when he realized he had left his dinosaur. He didn't want a new one since it didn't have an allergy arm band on it. He was upset when they put one on him so they put one on his dinosaur, too.
A couple of days later their was a priority mail box in our mail from Children's Hospital.
It was the dinosaur with a handwritten note from the nurse, saying she had found it, sent it back, and hoped Stiles was better.
Stiles still talks about how his dinosaur webkinz came back from Children's Hospital after drinking orange and apple juice and lots of albuterol.

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