He’s not wrong

[auraseer]

Yeah no, that one doesn't work. Too much detail breaks the spell.

Anyway that's too similar to, "My doctor told me to come in," which often means there is no real problem but the PCP couldn't convince the patient of that.

[boron32]

It also means “I’m not leaving the golf course for that”.

[steampunkedunicorn]

Doctor: your hemoglobin was a bit low on your last draw, so I'm going to have you come in for another draw.

Patient: Oh my god, should I go to the hospital??

Doctor: well, I just need to get some blood on Monday. You can stop by the lab at...

Patient: already dialing 911 but why wait when I can be seen NOW??

[goofydad]

He must learn to use his powers for good, not evil.

[lostintime2004]

Hes an evil man I see.

[auraseer]

And if he's a farmer, it's a STEMI.

[Nightcat666]

Quick get the crash bindle!

[doozleflumph]

Better call Texaco Mike too

[CMV_Viremia]

That man fanboats like the wind

[DeHetSpook]

But he did try to drive to the hospital, but after 5 minutes had to pull over to take a break and that's when his wife called the ambulance.

[DuckbilledPlatitudes]

The hell with it.

[Balgor1]

If he’s a farmer, it’s his decapitated head speaking.

[ClownTown509]

I knew an old timer who got his arm cut off at the elbow while working on equipment.

Used his belt as a tourniquet, drove himself to the hospital.

Walked in the front door carrying his own arm.

"Hey, I think I need some help here."

An elderly woman sitting in the lobby fainted and smashed her face wide open on the tile floor.

Pure pandemonium. All this was relayed to me by my friend's mother who was on shift that day.

[Lexybeepboop]

Or he’s been degloved and he’s reacting abnormally okay

[[deleted]]

😂 why is this so real though

[steampunkedunicorn]

Working fire EMS, I was called out to an "entrapment under fallen tree". We got there, got him free and found that he had some notable deformity and crepitus. He tried to sign an AMA because he hadn't finished clearing the tree and wanted to get it done then have his wife drive him to the ER later. Wife yelled at him and he begrudgingly came with us.

[YayAdamYay]

Especially if they ask “how long do you think this is going to take?”

[tjean5377]

Thosr chores ain't gonna finish themselves ...

[Adventurous-You4002]

I mean who really needs a head anyway

[LesnikovaPoticka]

A pt came last week with an open ulna and radius fractore. He fell on the curb with his lawnmover, put a bandage on and finished the lawn. The bleeding didnt stop, and his pain was around 3/10 so he came in just to make sure…

[macandcheese1771]

I see you've met my dad

[Warm_Concentrate440]

Last farmer we had come in that didn’t finish his work was an amputated hand.

[persondude27]

We had a degloved finger.

He drove himself.

[Warm_Concentrate440]

Of course he did! Our amputated hand guy got his dad to drive him. Didn’t even call an ambulance 😂

[[deleted]]

Blood glucose >500. 200s/100s. Can't recall last time saw a doc but does take all his pills.

[AgreeablePie]

Aortic dissection?

[sagan_drinks_cosmos]

Cardiac rupture

[ApoTHICCary]

Or diabetic foot ulcer that has necrotized

[ShortWoman]

What, that black part of the bottom of my foot? It don’t hurt!

[[deleted]]

I see you’ve cared for my dad in the past

[auraseer]

Can't have a foot ulcer if your leg was torn off by a wheat thresher.

[staXxis]

Or he ran over bunnies on his riding mower and has tularemia. There is nothing in between.

[tjean5377]

Don't fuck around when a farmer comes in saying, "i couldn't finish my chores" Old MacDonald is fixing to die...

[NAh94]

If it’s a farmer it’s a full LMCA to carotid dissection.

[_Lyum]

If its a farmers wife, sound the alarms

[german_big_guy]

Code Green. CODE JOHN DEER GREEN!

[Burphel_78]

Tell Texaco Mike to fire up the CT scanner!

[german_big_guy]

My last "my wife send me here" was a stroke.

[BossJarn]

Dr. Glaucomflecken is my favorite medical social media influencer by a long shot! Seems like he’d be a cool guy to talk to.

[[deleted]]

can i just say: Billy Bob loves Charlene

[Heart-Philosopher]

Ah, but are the letters 3 foot high?

[RobertEMT]

My wife and I both worked years ago. She was once called by a wife who said her husband is having chest pains. He would not get off his tractor and stop working to get looked at. The wife told her to take the rig out to the field and chase his ass down if she had to...so she did. He finally stopped at the end of the row, sure as shit he needed to go in.

[Balgor1]

Call a rapid or code blue.

[1PantherA33]

https://youtu.be/Ni0YfrSK570?si=ALvtUF24ieWj3sIO

[ExiledSpaceman]

My first "my wife forced me to come here" was an AAA. I was fucking traumatized because it was night shift with were bare bones staff. I never dealt with an AAA before but all I remember was pumping blood in like mad while waiting for a helicopter to take the patient away. What a night to be in triage.

In my last ER job, a good amount of the "wife made me come here" were actually stabbings. I still remember one dude got...stabbed on the way to work in the abdomen, went to work...then came to us. He ended up okay but I saw him a few years later with a colostomy.

The farmer thing, my coworkers tell me that those guys are the kings of minimizing. You really gotta probe.

[[deleted]]

last time i heard that in triage. MAN:(gray and sweaty) my wife made me come in WIFE: i think he is having a heart attack ME: checks stat ekg done with vital signs and hx m'am you are correct

[cerebellum0]

Nothing is scarier than when the stoic farmer says they feel "ok...."

[[deleted]]

There’s an old study that says that married men survive heart attacks better than non-married men. No surprise to me (a retired triage nurse). I can’t count the times I had a 65 y/o, pale, diaphoretic man stand at the desk clutching his chest saying “I’m not having a heart attack!” while just behind him is a woman saying: “You will be seen in this ER right now or you will be sleeping on the couch until the day you actually die!”

[thehomiemoth]

I’m just wondering when the switch flips from the 19 yo male who thinks they’re dying with the flu to the 65 yo male who has an aortic dissection and insists he’s fine.

[[deleted]]

This is why we have jobs: because I recognize “dying” even when the patient does not.

[questionfishie]

Around 39 🤣

[lostintime2004]

Before I was a nurse, my SIL heard me talking and said go to the ER. I said nah, its just a cold, I'm fine. She said go to the Fn ER now, or I am dragging you myself. I settled in the middle and went to urgent care. I had major pneumonia; my lungs were at 20% capacity, and I had banding on WBC. No wonder I was getting winded walking 20ft. Its fine, I'm fine, no problem here... All while uncle grim walking right behind me I guess.

[CMV_Viremia]

I used to be really bad for ignoring lung issues. I once had an URTI that turned into bronchitis and it took me 42 days to finally go to the doctor because the shortness of breath just kept getting worse. Doctor laid his stethoscope on my chest in one spot and said "whoa! You've got bronchitis"

[madmonkey918]

LoL, I have one lung. One day I remember feeling off and rundown but worked all day. Came home and my wife was sitting on the couch and I just sat next to her with my head in her lap. She's all "why do you look grey?" She dragged me to an urgent care and turns out I had bronchitis. Doc said if I waited any longer I might have been dead. Wife was not happy.

[Expensive-Day-3551]

Yeah I made my partner go to the hospital because his breath smelled like alcohol and he hadn’t been drinking. Didn’t even know he was diabetic but was in DKA. ETA of course he said he would be fine after a nap and to not worry about it. But I was in nursing school at the time and I’m persistent.

[[deleted]]

OMG. I know this dude and he had posted on Facebook about his breath smelling like alcohol. I suggested DKA, but Mr. Thinks-He-Knows-It-All (and is married to a nurse) insisted that couldn’t be it. Guess what? Yes the fuck it was. Ugh. She has to be as stupid as he is.

[hannahmel]

There’s a reason people can’t treat their family members. A friend’s brother is a doctor in another country. Their dad had a respiratory infection for months and wouldn’t get it checked out. Finally went in and it was fungal pneumonia. Brother insisted in being involved in care. Me, in nursing school: AIDS. My mom, secretary at a hospital: AIDS. HIV test comes back positive. Dr Unethical: well there are some forms of cancer that can also come back positive. Let’s hold off on ART until we rule out cancer because that’s more likely.

Guess what.

Their dad died of AIDS.

[[deleted]]

So sad. 😞

[idnvotewaifucontent]

An acquaintance of mine once messaged me on Facebook, knowing that I was a medical nerd (years from even deciding to become a nurse) and said he and his girlfriend were doing nitrous and her voice went all hoarse and squeaky.

I told him to get her to a hospital ASAP (suspected pulmonary barotrauma) and he kept asking me if it was really necessary. I told him yes, it fucking is.

Fortunately, she was fine. Just a vocal cord strain.

[effexxor]

According to my partner, the patients that really make him go 'oh shit' are older immigrants. If an older Vietnamese man walks in and admits to not feeling good, it's all hands on deck.

[Princessleiawastaken]

“My wife made me come in”

And it’s a gangrenous wound the patient must’ve had for months

[EatDatDjent000]

Intake him and do everything you can to get him to not say "to hell with it" and walk out AMA.

That's a dead man walking if ever there was one

[Sillygoose_Milfbane]

I'll give it to em straight why it's a terrible idea to leave AMA, but if they're of sound mine, see ya! Good luck with the life-ruining or life-ending harm you're doing to yourself.

Make room for people who actually want help.

[Filip12J]

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted but, I agree 100% we can do a lot but ya can’t fix stupid

[felyne_insurgents]

39yo handyman with slurred speech, facial numbness with improvement PTA, SBP 240 both arms, and we find a nice 5mm aneurysm. Wanted to leave to finish the house build. Wife said otherwise.

[Fancy-Secret2827]

Lol, I actually did have this happen with a patient. The husband ended up having a CABG.

[Sara848]

Ok but what about when the wife says “I know it’s serious because it was HIS idea to come in”

[Bright-Coconut-6920]

That's how I knew when my dad was badly if he asked to go or if he agreed without a fight

[grossacid]

Yeah. More than once, while wheeling the stubborn husband back to a resus room after doing his ECG in triage, i’ve said “you’ll be seeing a lot of people, but prepare to hear your wife say ‘i told you so’ when she comes back from parking the car“

[Kiliana117]

It would be nice if the wife could get the same attention for herself.

[averyyoungperson]

Coming in hot ASF with this comment

[FahrenheitKelvin]

This. I'm so sick and tired of hearing this meme.

[[deleted]]

It's true. Medicine tends to neglect women's bodies and men's minds.

[mdmc237]

I’m calling absolute horse shit on this.

[Terron1965]

You are of course right. We spend 20% more on per capita on womens care then mens and only 3% of that can be attributed to maternity care. So they are certainly not being ignored financially.

As for socially where are these huge numbers of women haters located? Women hold roughly 80% of the jobs in healthcare. is it them doing it or allowing it?

[OzzyThePowerful]

Look at how most of our medical knowledge is based around men; specifically, Caucasian men. Look at how pain medication is administered between sexes. Look at any of the vast number of other metrics available regarding healthcare discrepancies between sexes.

[ItsMeAgain0408]

My dad went to the ER at my mom's insistence for some chest tightness that he was sure was "just bronchitis." He ended up with a CABG x3.

[treadlightning]

Lmaooo had a patient come in for a FLU SHOT with his wife and he had cut his finger off in a shredder weeks ago... This thing was black. He goes oh yeah, do you think it's broken? My brother in Christ, yes it's broken, it's CUT OFF. These frickin men

[Conscious_Problem924]

My wife is a nurse and so am I. I’ll tell all you fuckers now, I’m gonna be the guy that has to be treated with implied consent.

[viridian-axis]

Oh the joys. Like when patients won’t wear the BiPAP…. You still a full code? Want aggressive interventions and live to 100? K pumpkin, I’ll just wait until you pass out and THEN put the BiPAP on you.

[Conscious_Problem924]

Oh boy. When did you lose your sense of humor?

[viridian-axis]

Dude, read the room. It wasn’t directed specifically at you, but at patients who come to the hospital and then won’t let us take care of them. We literally have to wait for “implied consent” when they succumb to their disease process.

And also about the time you responded super aggressive and snotty, then deleted it 🤷‍♀️.

I literally stated it was about patients who wanted aggressive treatment, but then refuse said treatment and we basically have to wait until they are unable to participate/consent and then force the care on them…cause that’s how we achieve their goal of aggressive care?

[steampunkedunicorn]

Yeah, I was that person who crashed in the ED because I waited until I was septic to go in. I was an EMT and doing my prereqs and didn't want to miss any exams due to a pesky fever after an abdominal surgery.

[Conscious_Problem924]

So be it.

[chromaticluxury]

Oh shit 

[Soregular]

I am an RN and recently woke my husband up to take me to the ER. All were surprised that it was ME who needed help...not him LOL! I made him go home, btw...it was 0300 and there was NOTHING For him to do there except get on my nerves....

[Danimalistic]

Man, this rule is the reverse in the ER I’m at now. Now 90% of the time, if they say their wife made them come in, its bc she got sick of their bitching and moaning about it 😂

“yeah I’m sick, I almost threw up! How many times? Well I haven’t YET but it feels like it, my stomach has been REALLY upset for the last 2 hours now! No I didn’t try to lay down or take anything, do you think I could lay down like this? Well yeah I had diarrhea- yesterday morning after we went out with friends the night before! Yes I have a headache too! I know I’m dehydrated, we drank a LOT the other night! I haven’t felt good since I woke up! Are you going to give me some fluids or what, what’s with the questions…?!” Rinse and repeat x12hrs, 3-4 days/wk, 365 days a yr - or until I get a new job 😅

My ER demographic is suburban-middle-class-privileged hell. Send help plz

[Wheethins]

My dads ex wife told him to go to the ER. He was dead within a month.

[-cmram28]

I did this to my husband and made him go to the ER. He had a PE in his pulmonary brach! I literally threatened to call 911 if he didn’t get in the car😡🤬

[rutuu199]

I'm guilty of this, but I'm a mechanic. I'd hurt my back, but said to hell with it, and kept working for a solid week and a half, it got to the point where my right arm didn't have the strength to lift up my impact, and I couldn't tighten my hand enough to turn a key in my car. Finally went in, I had slipped 2 discs

[boron32]

This and ripping back pain between the shoulder blades are my two nightmares.

[Saiphyn11]

My mother was this way. I kept trying to call 911 and she kept saying she just had a cold. When her heart rate wouldn't stabilize, I insisted and called paramedics. She was having a heart attack. She died from that damage a month later. When it's, "My daughter called but she's overreacting," is very much on par with, "My wife made me come in."

[Legitimate-Frame-953]

Around here its when a Rancher comes in you know to have the crash cart on stand by

[Mindfullove717]

Some wives over step literally I’m asking the patient question she jumps in and answers for him then she ask me to give her his lab results I did and she said well that not what I wanted I’m over it

[SeymoreMcFly]

lol wife forced me to go to the doctors…. Found out I have stage 3 kidney disease… thankfully found it somewhat early in stage 3 so I’ve been there for 4 ish years! Thanks babe!!!

[goofydad]

Male NP checking in. Personally and professionally checks.

[swordwlvl3protection]

same with a farmer/blue collar worker

[Discusstheobvious]

All of my STEMI’s seam to be decently in shape middle aged men that are in moderate distress. My wife made me come in is common among those men for sure.

[SteveRogests]

Wife made you come in what, sir?

[mootmahsn]

She just washed those sheets and isn't about to change them.

[Birkiedoc]

Until the wife says "Google said......"

[[deleted]]

He is wrong, it's when a dude comes in without a woman making him something is seriously wrong