Useless adviceAs a new parent, people seem to think it's OK to pass on any and every old wives tale possible. "Don't hug him too much". What? Quite what possesses people to pass on baseless, idiotic, useless advice I don't know.
That said, I quite often give car drivers directions and then, after they've moved off, realise that I've sent them down a bike-only route, so I can give as good as I get.
What useless advice have you been given (or handed out) recently?
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chthonic, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 10:29)
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The idiot anesthetistwho told my patient, "This lumbar puncture won't hurt a bit-it's perfectly safe!". He stuck a big fcuk off needle in her back, she screamed and leapt, thereby dislocating my shoulder and tearing the rotator cuff. Safe for who, dipwad?
I got: workman's compensation for 14 months (woo yay), an operation, a temporarily screwed up bladder from the morons who did the op, a 3x6x2 cm piece of bone in a jar-the part of my shoulder they had to amputate because it was destroyed and no apology whatsoever.
He got: nothing. No caution, no reprimand, no write up in his record, nothin'. Another example of the immense respect doctors have for nurses.
(, Thu 26 Oct 2006, 1:06, Reply)
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