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Originally Posted by impress
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I've seen that kind of thing in real life.
She's disturbed, but an amateur compared to some of my patients.
Like the woman I have to continually beg ER physicians ... "I know that it's faster for you to staple her abdomen back shut, but hey, I'm speaking from experience here ... she'll be back in your ER before she's brought down to me because she'll pull those staples. Please stitch her."
"Where'd you get your medical degree?"
"I watched ER from the time it started. I know this woman. Stitch her."
An hour later I get a call from someone other than Dr. I-Know-More-Than-You.
"Yeah, you need to delay your ambulance."
"Why's that?"
"She pulled out her staples and Dr. I-Know-More-than-You is now stitching her up."
"Okay, no problem. By the way, don't take your eyes off her, like don't even leave her alone for a minute."
"Why's that?"
"Because what she usually does next is ask to go to the bathroom and then she tries to hang herself."
"Okay."
The next phone call is typically a very sheepish nurse who calls to tell me she's being medically admitted because they need to observe her because she hung herself in their bathroom.
She has also injured herself in restraints by using the restraint straps and locks.
The reason she cuts her belly open now is that there isn't any skin on her arms or legs that isn't so covered with scar tissue that she has a hard time cutting through it, and she has also damaged the nerve endings so much that she can't feel any physical pain in those areas.