Same Name, A Trouble-Maker And Pepsy

We have two patients in the same room with the same last name, same diagnosis, same surgery on the same day and the same doctor. They are also close in age and resemble each other. One had surgery on her right ureter and the other had surgery on her left ureter. I'm wondering what the odds are that each patient had the correct ureter operated on. We can't tell from looking what was done inside. I figure that the odds of one of them getting the other's medications is almost a certainty. Ideally, these patients should have been on different floors, or at the very least, in different rooms.

They also have a string dangling from between their legs. On the other end is a stent in the ureter. In bold print, the doctor wrote, "Do not pull string." I laughed. Who would pull something like that? I guess, though, since the warning was so bold, that someone must have in the past.

One confused old lady tattled on the confused old lady in the next bed. She told us, "She drank beer yesterday." We laughed and she said, "She really did." It's unlikely that the patient drank beer, she was in surgery that day and zonked afterwards. Her roommate is a trouble-maker.

We have a patient whose official diagnosis is "pepsy." By a different spelling, that is a beverage. This was a new illness to me. Of course, it was just a typo. They meant to say sepsis. Come on guys, that's not even close.