Today, a patient was late for a psychiatry appointment, after having missed his previous two. I am the medical student on the team that was supposed to do his assessment. I said, "You snooze, you lose." Everyone stopped and looked at me. Apparently, he missed them because he has narcolepsy. FML
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, after countless nights of no sleep and only some spontaneous naps, I was finally seeing a sleeping doctor to analyze the problem. I missed the appointment because I ended up sleeping through my alarm after not being able to sleep at all last night. FML
Today, after I'd finally decided to see a doctor about my anxiety and insomnia, I was so nervous about what the doctor would think of me that I had anxiety attacks that kept me from sleeping a wink all night. I ended up oversleeping and missing the appointment I was so nervous about. FML
Today, I got my ass kicked by my boss at work. Why? Because I missed my shift on Saturday, because I slept through my alarms and the phone calls from my co-workers, and I woke up three hours later in a state of panic. This is all because of a medicine I'm on for migraines. FML
Today, I went to a job interview. The person giving me my interview was late, and while waiting for them I fell asleep. When they arrived, they didn't even bother interviewing me because they thought I was irresponsible since I fell asleep because they were late. FML
Today, I was told I have narcolepsy, and I've it for a year and a half. When asked why I didn't go to a doctor before, I answered that I'd always assumed it was a normal adult thing to fall asleep randomly because of how everyone says they're always exhausted. Apparently not. FML
Today, my boyfriend had an appointment he had to wait months for, after he finally agreed to try to figure out what's making him so tired all the time. He slept through it. FML
Today, I had the class clown of my preschoolers oversleep our daily 15-minute nap. Not wanting to spare any more class time on his disrupting jokes, I let the headache sleep. After another 10 minutes we called an ambulance. He had a stroke. FML
Today, I discovered I have narcolepsy. During a driving test. FML
Today, I'm doing the school run. I went to bed early and took a sleeping pill for my insomnia so I could be productive. Even if I could sleep past my partner snoring like a cave bear with sinus infection, it turns out that my sleeping pills make me hyper. The next person who says ADHD is fun is getting slapped. FML
Today, I set practically ten alarms because I absolutely could not oversleep for an important appointment. I woke up two hours early, panicked that I'd missed it, and couldn't fall back asleep. I spent the entire appointment looking like I hadn't slept at all. FML
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Lia_Mackenzie 4
Yeeeeeeeeaaaaahh, you're the kind of person I fear achieving a medical degree. ...You DO know you're allowed to read (and pay attention to) the case files...right?
juche 3
Wow, next time, read the patient's chart before going to meet with him. If we nursing students can do it, surely you medical students can do it too.
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Jazzywrites007 2
Ok. "Pimpin88", you are the same guy who posts ******* TEXT WALLS Lecturing Everyone on EVERYTHING from Gay marriage to Army involvement in Iraq to Womens' rights and Sexual Morality. And Yet here you are advocating the Dumbshit "doctor" who made an inappropriate crack at his patient. So much for that high-horse riding shit that you normally post.
SuperSpore 0
Well I guess they lost. :/
XTheDesertSongX 17
I'm Old Gregg. Baileys, mmm creamy!
redbluegreen 41
Hahahahaha.
hilaryy_fml 0
wanna go to a club where people wee on eachother?
esoralyal 0
ever drank baileys from a shoe?
SusanaSaysRawrxD 0
Wow. You couldn't have known. You were just helping with his assessment, it probably wasn't up to you to scan his file just yet. But that does such. And how was this bullying? It's a wicked common phrase! FYL.
FarSide 23
@42: By your accent, I will give you are the benefit of doubt that you do not know relevant US law, and are not an adult. Otherwise, you have shit-for-brains... the runny, yellow, baby type. In the US, we have privacy laws totally covering all aspects of all health-care. A medical professional or staffer cannot even acknowledge to a third party that you are a patient. Perhaps in your Country, YOUR syphilis, depression, sexual dysfunction, and prescription for Viagra are a matter of Public Record. If that is the case, then it sucks to be you. We demand privacy and freedom in the USA, and it's one reason we go to war to protect it. Next you ignorant ballerina-crotch, I have no way of knowing your IP address and could not care less. But YOUR ISP does know, Fmylife does know, and it is recorded. Are you really so stupid to think that anything you do on the Internet is private and cannot be traced? Less that ".001%" of Internet users know how to mask their locations, and you sure as "OhmyBLOODYhell" have no idea how to hide yourself. Once again you ranting ignoramus, if I did know who your "buddy" was, you can bet your ass I would refer him to his State Professional Licensing Board. OP has no business posting patient (regardless of how anonymous) information in a public forum. Furthermore, there are more people on this thread who DO care than those who don't. In addition, I do live and work in the USA, and as a matter of fact, I DO know what I am talking about, in contrast to your statement that you "think... completely unfounded"; any 1st year law student, or any medical professional, knows this is medical malpractice, and punishable by fines and/or imprisonment in a Federal detention facility. Finally, I am not pissed... I am not annoyed... I AM amused by your brainless and baseless "thoughts" expressed here. Please, kindly consider doing us all a favor, and POST SOME MORE. You have shown us you are an asshole, might as well show us that you are also the stupid and nutless pencil-dick that we know you are. P.S. To all of you Insurance staffers: what the hell do you know about HIIPA law? Just shuffle your papers, and keep denying subscriber benefits. Obama is going to fire you numnutz anyway.
repyourcliche 0
Somebody shut this bitch up
Jean_Axe 0
may i suggest that you take that pretentious manner of yours and swallow it... but i suppose with how inflated it is you would choke on it. With no name and no location(besides state) given, there is no breach of federal HIPAA laws. please do not try to show us up with your "knowledge" its quite like watching a bee in a spider web... quite self confident that it can escape but entirely screwed in all aspects.
bobleheadNS 0
wats narcolepsy?
FarSide 23
don't you have a ******* computer? look it up lazy ass.
ryan__h 1
chill #60. Its when a person falls asleep at random times...that is a very basic answer. Someone else can answer it better probably.
plexico 4
I'm sure you'll go to a colitis patient and say, "What's wrong with this asshole?"
kal3314 0
...or tell a patient with asthma that their new diagnosis "blows?"
bobleheadNS 0
XD
lessthanbee 0
^.^ Bad pun, FTW.
rotf_coaster_9 0
lol tell a lazy insomniac to stop sleeping on the job
plexico 4
lessthanbee, you think that pun is bad, go check out the one I wrote for the guy coming back from a business trip in Paris. It's #57, and if you like stinky puns, like some cheese connoisseurs like stinky cheese, you'll love it.
MoobyTheCow 2
YDI for not being more professional.
LordKoin772 0
....... what?
tanman0401 4
FYL life dude, you couldn't have known