• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    You ever try to get blood out in a hurry?

    I mean, obviously this is the internet and nothing is real, but it’s not impossible that they still had some blood on them in the frenzy to get to the hospital.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t know how hospitals work in the US (assuming that OP is a US citizen, because that’s what we do on the internet), but where I come from, determining the cause of an injury is very important to decide on an effective treatment. Bites in particular are very nasty and can lead to a lot of scary complications (including human bites!).

      There’s no way in hell the nurse just said “yeah ok got it fam” and went along with her day like it wasn’t important.

      And maybe I’m too jaded, but I read “we also got engaged” and my mind automatically added “and everyone clapped” at the end of the sentence lol

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        3 months ago

        There’s no way in hell the nurse just said “yeah ok got it fam” and went along with her day like it wasn’t important.

        I suspect that, if true, it was clarified further down the line before treatment. Or, considering how I’ve been in-and-out of the ER, the nurse just wrote down ‘human bite’ regardless of what the patient claimed lmao.

        Like I said. It’s the internet. I’m not saying it’s definitely real. But it’s far from impossible.

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          3 months ago

          She would chart the cause as accurately as she can; whether she also writes down the obvious lie is up to her. Which means she would write down “human bite”; not because it’s best for the patient, not because of liability, but because every other staff member (nurses and doctors included) would laugh at her if she didn’t. Nurses got a pecking order, and writing down obvious nonsense in a patient’s chart is a good way to drop ranks.

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          3 months ago

          Preface: I am not a doctor, this is just my understanding. Human bites are, on the whole, much worse. You have to consider that the human mouth is full of bacteria that the human immune system hasn’t already dealt with, so human bites can infect really bad.

          Not that rats don’t have awful things in their mouths. Get it looked at either way.