I wish patients knew what the ER was for

<rant> I'm on shift, and this nice lady kept on asking me about bumps on her neck. I told her several times that I'm here just to make sure she didn't have a stroke (she came in dizzy). Finally her husband said "HONEY....he's not going to figure that out!" "Ohhhh...honey you don't have to be mean about it. I was just asking." Non stop today...people asking me about crap that I will never know the answer. It just gets so tiresome. "If I had to know everything about everything in... Read more
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