Comments on other things amanzi: 200%

The first open heart surgeries also had a potentia...

2009-09-22T19:32:54.830+02:00

The first open heart surgeries also had a potential 200% death rate.

A healthy person, usually a parent, was used as a heart/lung machine while the patients defect was corrected.

Oh - and other times you go call a name in the ER ...

2009-09-14T18:57:31.028+02:00

Oh - and other times you go call a name in the ER waiting area, and someone will come in and answer because they want to go first, even if it isn't their name. Another way to get fucked up.

This actually happens a lot here too in the ER lat...

2009-09-14T18:56:45.275+02:00

This actually happens a lot here too in the ER late at night because they get so many dementia nursing home transfers. Different reason, same problem. We have this whole protocol for checking ID with two different people now. And numbers too, not just names.

that is hilarious! (not the 200% potential mortali...

2009-09-12T18:14:13.316+02:00

that is hilarious! (not the 200% potential mortality): the whole timothy/michael/mokoena/magagula exchange: that is EXACTLY how it is.

I've gotten to the point that I've seen so many pa...

2009-09-12T16:40:52.379+02:00

I've gotten to the point that I've seen so many patients that they all look familiar and strange at the same time, so connecting a history with a face or a name becomes surprisingly difficult, even if it was earlier that same day.

I guess it's good I'm not a surgeon.

THAT was the funniest post i've read. Try as hard ...

2009-09-12T03:24:32.877+02:00

THAT was the funniest post i've read. Try as hard as I like, I can't even imagine getting 200% strike rate.

Bongi, like I said, "I hesitate...". And I confess...

2009-09-12T01:53:32.238+02:00

Bongi, like I said, "I hesitate...". And I confess I sq2m at your "wasn't going to let something trivial like a name get in his way." Of course he wasn't; it was probably tea break 5 mins later. To double check would've made him late for it.
I'm amused though; efficiency is something you require in your porters?? Gracious, what a novel idea. I should mention it to someone over here...

jabulani, i asked the patient if he was timothy mo...

2009-09-12T01:17:47.852+02:00

jabulani, i asked the patient if he was timothy mokoena. he said yes. the porter asked him if he was timothy mokoena and he essentially said no, but the porter just wanted to shuffle the next patient off to the ward and wasn't going to let something trivial like a name get in his way.

Bongi, I hesitate to do this but ... in defence of...

2009-09-12T00:59:22.570+02:00

Bongi, I hesitate to do this but ... in defence of the porter, he DID at least ask instead of just assuming the patient was who he thought. Ok, he got it wrong but, ya know, he MADE an effort... howbatu

anonymous, i generally ask the patient his name. s...

2009-09-12T00:45:23.201+02:00

anonymous, i generally ask the patient his name. saves me having to read the bad handwriting on those id bands.

in this case i read the name from his sticker (actually the other guy's sticker which had been taken to the ward with him). he confirmed he was the name i asked. when the porter had just assumed the name thing was a clerical error, the patient continued to believe this and started responding to the incorrect name. only after everything when i went back to him did he come clean and confess to being someone else, the person he actually was.

i thought the porter's action in this whole thing was the most interesting. i don't think his heart was in his work.

try checking the patients ID band next time....and...

2009-09-11T19:42:05.754+02:00

try checking the patients ID band next time....and if they're not wearing one how the hell did they get past triage.

I want to be able to say "Eish, typical Africa"; b...

2009-09-11T18:04:21.462+02:00

I want to be able to say "Eish, typical Africa"; but if I'm honest, opinion is divided. Whilst a teensy little part wants to say "Africa-so-wouldn't-happen-here", the greater, more realistic, part knows this could actually happen anywhere.
I second rlbates's comment on running. Perhaps you should reconsider the rugby ...

That would have made for an especially bad M&M. G...

2009-09-11T16:03:01.765+02:00

That would have made for an especially bad M&M. Glad you can run fast.