This wasn't my personal patient, but a friend of mines. The patient came in with nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. hmmm....I wonder why? He swallowed a screw (which you can see on the left side) and two batteries (which you can see in the middle of the film). He wanted an escape route out of the R. county prison and went to great lengths to ensure it ended him up in a better place....the hospital, with a dentist as his doctor. haha. I am serious. The dental residents have to do shifts in the emergency room. Honestly, that would be like asking me to do a root canal, or quote lines from movies, or not interrupt in the middle of a conversation...nearly impossible. Even though seemingly odd, a dentist in the ER, it did lend to many hilarious stories. This being one of them. It's ironic, because I do everything I can to get out of the hospital, and this guy did everything he could to get himself admitted. Maybe life is not that bad.
I haven't yet decided what I would do to get out of prison, but I'll tell you what my patient, THUG LIF did. THUG LIF has hemophilia (a bleeding disorder where a small cut can cause massive bleeding) so he shoves things like paper clips and broken screw drivers under his skin and then bleeds profusely and gets taken to the ER. In my one month at Grady, he was admitted 6 separate times!! Oh, and in case you were wondering about his nickname, THUG LIF, he was in too much pain by the time he got to the E so he just stopped.
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