winterallsummer Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I seem to keep meeting these patients and wondering if anyone else is familiar with this guy... PA: Hello, my name is XYZ, I'm a PA and will be taking care of you today. Do you have any health problems such as DM, HTN, etc? Pt: No, I'm as healthy as a horse! In fact I NEVER go to the doctor and have only been hospitalized a couple times! Labs come back - early CKD, severe DM, SBP 180s, LVH in EKG, chronic anemia, etc etc. Anyone else met this guy, or any others they care to share? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted December 3, 2014 Moderator Share Posted December 3, 2014 actual conversation: PA " so sir, do you have any medical problems I need to know about?" PT " I don't have any medical problems". PA "great, do you take any medications" PT"sure, digoxin, coumadin, atenolol, relpax, dilantin, lasix, NPH insulin, AZT, and zyprexa". PA" I thought you said you don't have any medical problems" PT "when I take my medicine, I don't have any problems" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbrothers98 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Both of these patients get around. They must be in such poor health due to all the traveling they do to be so ubiquitous. GB PA-C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmdpac Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 actual conversation: PA " so sir, do you have any medical problems I need to know about?" PT " I don't have any medical problems". PA "great, do you take any medications" PT"sure, digoxin, coumadin, atenolol, relpax, dilantin, lasix, NPH insulin, AZT, and zyprexa". PA" I thought you said you don't have any medical problems" PT "when I take my medicine, I don't have any problems" I met this guy just last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medic25 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Meet the first guy fairly frequently; he's typically an old school New England swamp Yankee. Tough as nails, shows up in duck boots and flannels in full-blown sepsis because he's been ignoring his pneumonia for weeks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRTtoPA Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 actual conversation: PA " so sir, do you have any medical problems I need to know about?" PT " I don't have any medical problems". PA "great, do you take any medications" PT"sure, digoxin, coumadin, atenolol, relpax, dilantin, lasix, NPH insulin, AZT, and zyprexa". PA" I thought you said you don't have any medical problems" PT "when I take my medicine, I don't have any problems" I think I met his cousin, he no longer has COPD, except for that long term bronchodilator that he takes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted December 3, 2014 Moderator Share Posted December 3, 2014 I think I met his cousin, he no longer has COPD, except for that long term bronchodilator that he takes and the o2 he sleeps with every night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted December 3, 2014 Moderator Share Posted December 3, 2014 Meet the first guy fairly frequently; he's typically an old school New England swamp Yankee. Tough as nails, shows up in duck boots and flannels in full-blown sepsis because he's been ignoring his pneumonia for weeks... at my rural job these guys are all fishermen. "no medical hx" and they present age 70, septic with afib/rvr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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