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Do you mean syringe denizens or strange denizens?

Thanks...updated. I was typing on my phone, and didn't notice the typo.

The man who gets to his appointment 30 minutes early and then starts complaining (loudly) "I've been here for thirty minutes already and have not been seen. This is ridiculous".

Ms X you have so and so disease. I think if you can start to walk a little every day, and gain control of your blood pressure, we can avoid surgery"........."isn't there a pill you can give me for that instead?"

I had a patient last week ask to bring her "service dog" into my office. She said she forgot the dog's service vest and paperwork. I allowed it. She claimed she needed the dog for her anxiety. The dog ended up being a tiny chihuahua that was shaking like a crack addict looking for his next fix.

Oh man...as a physician I bet myself and the other slowtwitch MD's could fill up >100 pages worth of strange denizens...any ER docs could probably write a multi-part novel. It is a strange world out there people, the stuff I've seen stuck up the varied body orifices would make your head spin.

Yeah...you Doc's have a front row seat to the human side-show. My dad was a Internist for 40 years, so I had a first balcony seat...it made for interesting discussions while we were working on cars/house projects/sometimes dinner table/etc.

Dunno if this is still a thing, but back then he had to do a rotation through the ER (on call) every month (I think). So, those were more "odd", and sometimes gruesome.

Saw a guy and asked him to submit a urine sample to the lab. Very unusual bacteria came back growing in the sample. Upon further questioning he told me he went the lab couldn't produce so he expressed some liquid from his rectum and submitted that. And this is a guy who if you talked to him you would think he was normal. Got all sorts of stories like that.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

I was the denizen.

I had an ultrasound guided cortisone shot in the high hamstring tendon. The shot was fine, no issues. Then I get up to walk to the front reception desk to pay the bill, my ass feels a little dead but nothing too bad. The cute receptionist asks me what I had done again, I told her and said it was no big deal, hardly even felt it. Two seconds later I fainted, fell back and hit the watercooler, spilling approx 10L of water all over the floor in reception!

I woke up to see her standing up at the desk, along with most other people in the waiting area laughing!

Syringe would be a good one too

I work on the compound of a large Military Medical Center I no longer work in direct patient care but just walking the hallways I see some bizarre stuff.

I am waiting for the ER docs to start posting the things they see.

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