The other night I was admitting a patient, and he was a talker! The admitting process is a little bit daunting at first as it requires a 10-step database process where you ask the patient everything you could possibly want to know about their health history, etc and a few things you wouldn't think of and wonder how they actually apply. I don't mind this at all, but I hate it when patients come in at 3 am and I have to go through this whole process and they just want to sleep, but I digress.
As I mentioned, this patient was a TALKER. I mean, he would not. stop. talking. And I could barely get my questions in. Over the course of whatever he was saying (I'm going to be honest here, I wasn't paying a lot of attention, because he was rambling and he thought he was funny, but he wasn't. At all.) All of a sudden he says, "Well, I come here because the nurses are cute and they give me good meds. Hey, I want you to be my baby momma. Will you?"
I didn't even look up from the database and said, "That's never going to happen. So, have you ever had a flu vaccine?"
