Whatsup MuFKRs? 👋

Welcome to another issue of "Is It an Emergency?"​​, a place where healthcare workers commiserate about the insanity that is our every day. Here, we provide a weekly peek at the chaos of the ER.

So, grab your favorite 5 o’clock drink, and we’ll dive into those “you can’t make this shit up” stories

Cast your vote for the wildest story on Santa’s Naughty List! 🎅🗳️

Not Merry Christmas! 🎄

A nurse with a great sense of humor had to assess a patient who was drunk and difficult on Christmas.

Her nursing notes said something like: "Patient appears intoxicated, is aggressive and uncooperative, and keeps repeating the same two words, and they are not Merry Christmas!"

Santa’s Toilet Takedown 🎅

On Christmas Eve, a schizophrenic patient tried to dismantle the inpatient psych ward’s toilet, so Santa could come through and give presents.

Grandpa’s Final Christmas Drama 🧑🏻‍🎄

Christmas day, two thousand-and-something. Called for an unresponsive. Huge family gathered around grandpa who is apneic and pulseless in his favorite recliner. He had eaten dinner with the whole family, gone to the bathroom and apparently taken a massive shit, sat down in his recliner to have an after dinner smoke, and perished.

He was a DNR, but half the family decided today was the day they didn’t want to lose him, and started arguing with the other half. We started working him, until a decision could be reached. Eventually things got violent and we transported as PD showed up bc of safety reasons and also because nobody could produce a valid DNR.

The best part was that we had decorated the back of the ambulance with Christmas lights, so when we loaded him in, it was all festive and cheerful looking. My partner unplugged them super quick before anyone from inside the house saw, and they called it at the hospital.

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Cheers to another week of ER adventures, MuFKRs!

— Steven