A man comes in with un-controllable nose bleeding [epistaxis]
"do you have HTN?"
"Yes"
"do you take medication for it?"
"No, I havent taken anything for over a year"
"why?"
"because i have felt fine..."
3 AM on a Tuesday morning working Triage
"I have worms, these worms are eating my nerves. My legs hurt so bad. They are numb. I cant sit for very long because I have no circulation. Oh my god it hurts so bad."
[man then proceeds to lay on the floor in the middle of the triage cubicle]
Recently, we had a 20 something year old girl come in with a fork hanging from the base of her tongue. Apparently she had the stomach flu and couldnt eat for 2 days. After feeling better, she starting eating so ravenously because she was so hungry and somehow stabbed herself very hard with the fork. She couldnt get it out and came to the ER.
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