21 Nurses And Doctors Share Their Most Insane And Hilarious Stories Of A Patient ‘Faking It’
"Get called for an unconscious drunk at a bar. Get her out to the ambulance, she shouts 'I'M HAVING A SEIZURE' and starts waving her arms around. I tell her 'people who have seizures generally don't announce it first.' Her response? 'You're being very judgmental, I was getting ready in case I had a seizure.'"
By Eric Redding
2. It’s A Miracle!
“My husband is a firefighter and EMT and he told me about a time where they were called for a man seizing. When they got there a guy was lying face up on the floor not moving and then started faking a seizure. They stood there saying things like ‘Oh wow. This is a bad one. But if they did X then we should really be worried!’ and the patient would suddenly start doing X behavior. Apparently this went on for a while until he miraculously woke up in the ambulance asking for opiates.”
3. Whooping Cough
“My mom’s an ER nurse and she said once some crazy lady came in and complained hat she had the whooping cough. And whenever she coughed she followed it with a loud ‘woooOOOP!'”
