r/emergencymedicine • u/Asleep-Palpitation43 Nurse Practiciner • Feb 02 '25

Advice Allergy Olympics

Is it wrong that if I see a patient has more than 10 allergies I IMMEDIATELY assume she's (bc it's always a she) a psych case?

In 24 years I've never been wrong.

You'll never read this in a textbook but add it to your practice today and thank me later👍

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u/Single_Statement_712 Feb 02 '25

I am going to have a bowel movement. He is going to code.

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u/purebreadbagel RN Feb 02 '25

On the bright side, my last one at least made it back to the bed before he coded. We didn’t have to code him on the bathroom floor.

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u/cKMG365 Feb 02 '25

I have coded a lot of people on a lot of bathroom floors. Probably not triple-digits but definitely high double-digit numbers of bathroom codes.

Some are nicer bathrooms than others but none of the codes there were particularly enjoyable.