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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Oct 22, 2022 1:57:03 GMT
A patient checks their temperature with their own ear thermometer ... 36.9. Shortly afterwards a nurse checks the patient's temperature with the ward ear thermometer ... 35.3. The patient tells the nurse that the ward thermometer is wrong. A sister appears and "sternly" says to the patient: "What makes you think that your thermometer is right? The patient invites the sister to check her own temperature with the ward thermometer ... but she refuses to do so.
On a previous occasion when the ward thermometer has shown a low result (35.0) the nurse involved has responded to the patient's request to check her own temperature and found that her temperature was also 35.0.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2022 11:48:25 GMT
This is perhaps a Members Section topic?
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Oct 23, 2022 22:02:28 GMT
On Saturday, after my dialysis, I felt a bit "under the weather". The nurse took my temperature ... 36.3. My thermometer however, said it was 38.4. The nurse went away and came back with another thermometer (the same model as the one she'd just used). It said that my temperature was 37.8.
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Post by Toreador on Oct 24, 2022 7:44:26 GMT
On Saturday, after my dialysis, I felt a bit "under the weather". The nurse took my temperature ... 36.3. My thermometer however, said it was 38.4. The nurse went away and came back with another thermometer (the same model as the one she'd just used). It said that my temperature was 37.8. The worse is when they use those little diabetes strips where they puncture your finger and dip the end in, put it into a little machine with a good chance it will give a wildly wrong figure. |
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Nov 23, 2022 14:34:16 GMT
Success! After repeatedly complaining about the inaccurate thermometers ... and being subjected to a "negative response" on several occasions ... I've just received a message that ALL the thermometers used throughout the hospital are being replaced by more reliable ones. As the thermometers currently used at my Health Authority are widely used throughout the NHS, the cost of replacing them could be substantial (each of the ones being replaced cost over £300).
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Post by borchester on Nov 23, 2022 19:43:33 GMT
On Saturday, after my dialysis, I felt a bit "under the weather". The nurse took my temperature ... 36.3. My thermometer however, said it was 38.4. The nurse went away and came back with another thermometer (the same model as the one she'd just used). It said that my temperature was 37.8. The worse is when they use those little diabetes strips where they puncture your finger and dip the end in, put it into a little machine with a good chance it will give a wildly wrong figure. I always like to have a bar of chocolate afterwards to see how high the figure will go 
The last time I went for a blood test the doctor said my sugar level was the highest that he had ever seen. And he looked really glum so I said, well some has to come out on top don't they?
But he still looked glum.
When he was on his last illness and knowing that he was going to die, my father asked the doctor how long he had. And the doctor replied, "Well Jack, you certainly won't out last me!"
Whereupon the pair of themselves pissed themselves laughing.
That is is the problem with modern doctors. Highly skilled and decent enough, but a bit too earnest and not overly keen on a laugh and a joke.
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Post by Toreador on Nov 23, 2022 22:09:32 GMT
The worse is when they use those little diabetes strips where they puncture your finger and dip the end in, put it into a little machine with a good chance it will give a wildly wrong figure. I always like to have a bar of chocolate afterwards to see how high the figure will go
The last time I went for a blood test the doctor said my sugar level was the highest that he had ever seen. And he looked really glum so I said, well some has to come out on top don't they?
But he still looked glum.
When he was on his last illness and knowing that he was going to die, my father asked the doctor how long he had. And the doctor replied, "Well Jack, you certainly won't out last me!"
Whereupon the pair of themselves pissed themselves laughing.
That is is the problem with modern doctors. Highly skilled and decent enough, but a bit too earnest and not overly keen on a laugh and a joke.
This morning, someone asked me how old I was. I told him I was closing in on 86, to which he replied, "I'll soon catch you up"; I told him he'll need to live to 100. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 12, 2022 23:29:43 GMT
On Saturday, after my dialysis, I felt a bit "under the weather". The nurse took my temperature ... 36.3. My thermometer however, said it was 38.4. The nurse went away and came back with another thermometer (the same model as the one she'd just used). It said that my temperature was 37.8. The worse is when they use those little diabetes strips where they puncture your finger and dip the end in, put it into a little machine with a good chance it will give a wildly wrong figure. I’m guessing you’ve never had an INR (blood clotting factor) test Think diabetes pinprick but twice as vicious and they gouge and squeeze the blood out, you need a lot ! It bloody hurts. On the subject of the diabetes tests these days they use a damn Hba1c reading. They take blood and see how heavily sugared the red cells are. You see, the red cells react to sugar a bit like they react to carbon monoxide. It sticks and doesn’t come off. So when they measure the amount of glycosylated (sugar laden) haemoglobin they think they’re looking at a fair measure of long term sugar levels Unless of course you have a defective liver which won’t break down the aged red cells inside 14 days as was intended. Then you have red cells older than the expected norm which naturally have more sugar coating having been found in the blood longer. Sadly the GPs I trained alongside in their first years snd the GPs I went on to help teach are all retired or retiring. And the spotty git the practice just took on can’t handle the fact I have forgotten more than he ever got taught. So nobody is going to take me seriously about the huge discrepancy in finger prick and hba1c tests until they cut me open on the coroners slab, biopsy the liver and say ‘hey, he had a point’ …… |
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