Human beings are really special species. It’s hard to understand them. Everyone has their one characteristic; some are just really really weird.

Patient A.

I checked his blood sugar level, it was sky high and according to the sliding scale I need to give him 18 units of Actrapid. So after I prepare everything, went to his bedside, he asked me how many units am I injecting him, so nicely I told him 18 units.

“No, you give me only 15 units will do.”

“Sorry sir, according to the sliding scale written by your doctor, I need to give you 18 units and I can’t simply alter for you.”

“No, no, you tell doctor I only want 15 units.”

“Your doctor is well aware of you uncontrolled blood sugar level, that’s why he wrote down the sliding scale for nurses to refer.”

“NO, I KNOW MY BODY BETTER THAN YOU”

F*** THIS PATIENT!!!!!! I was like, if you know your body better, go heal yourself at your home and don’t come to the hospital for heaven’s sake!!!

Such a stubborn nincompoop!!!

At the end, I backed off and called up his doctor. FYI, I need to take a deep breath before calling the doctor because he is well known of scolding nurses through the phone. Thank god the doctor was in good mood, so he just said give 18 units no matter what. HA-HA

I went back to the patient’s room with confidence and told him at his face that I called the doctor, informed him about the blood sugar level, and no bargain, 18 units!!!! And he had no choice but to accept it, ish I should have jabbed him harder!! But being a nice hypocrite nurse, I still gently jab the insulin into his abdomen with politeness.

I know… I can win the best hypocrite nurse ever!!

Sometimes I really do wonder is the hospital I’m working really that famous???? We have patients flying in all over the world to seek treatment in my hospital. We have Japanese, Russian, Vietnamese, Burmese, Bangladeshi, Indian, UAE, Indonesian etc. Most of them are foreigners, some can’t even speak English for nuts and I cant imagine myself going to a country that I couldn’t speak understand their language at all and what’s more to seek medical treatment??

We had a Vietnamese patient came in for kidney transplant, and I felt bad for not understanding what’s she saying but I know DAO DAO DAO.. means pain, but I didn’t know she was really in that great pain, the doctors even though of referring her to psychiatric until she starts hitting her private part until it bleeds and the vulva got so swollen!!

And when the doctor did a last minute bladder washout, the outcome was bloodly blood clots!! Heavy blood clots like rebenna jelly!! And when my colleague and I saw the blood clot, our mouths went wide open and was like no wonder she’s in such a great pain!! After the procedure, we put her to continuous bladder washout with full blast and that was the first time since the surgery she slept like a baby.