Another fun night in the ER

[tommymac]

havent had one like this in a while. I walk into a rather busy room, (its friday night in the ghetto, what better time ot get your chronic complaints looked at) So some gangbanger skell keeps banging on the door, its obvious he already got the snot beat out of him and with his attitude deservedly so it seems.

We tell him he needs to be triaged and will be seen when its his turn. Apparently thats not good enough for him. he starts pounding at the door to come in. I get up to answer it, he tries to walk in but realizes I am much larger than he is and am not moving ot let him in. So he starts another profanity laced tirade first towards me then towars our security guard who got up to get him to stop acting out.

I guess he felt the guard was an easier target than I was and jumps him out in the lobby so hospital police arrive and the catch the little fucker and the guard comes in all scuffed up. I figured great its bad enough its busy but theyre making more work for me.

So I bring the guard right in and make an assessment of his injuries. Fortunatley nothing major and I hear they caught the guy who did it so alls good. I get back to work, then an hr later I find out the guy who did this now wants to be seen and have his face fixed since he knows he will be spending a lot of time at rikers (turns out hes a cripp so i am sure hes got other stuff against him) He comes in carrying on and cursing out the staff.

they put him in a separate exam room to keep him away from everyone else. Now I figure hes going to jail so I am in no hurry to get his stuff taken care of and went back to my other patients.

He starts acting up again, I tell the officers to give me a minute so I can examine/talk to him. Close the door and basicaly tell him how it will be and how since hes handcuffed it would be bad if he fell off the table and hurt himself further

So an hr and a half later I am a bit caught up and can see this guy, turns out his injuries are more involved and had a complex laceration I had to sew. So I get all his other injuries/issues taken care of then have to sew up the wound. He starts up again and had to remind him of our previous convo.

I wind up doing an amazing job puting his face back together and think what a waste, all this time and effort on this guy who assaulted our staff, and apparently also went after a nypd cop before he came in.

I guess the best part is that I got some practice fixing wounds like this for when the next person comes in.

Anyway I am off to bed, I will have to talk to detective, administrators and my bosses about it.