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Do doctors ever do surgery on themselves
A nurse here.
I gave myself a
flu shot. I didn’t want to go to the CVS and pay $20 for it. We had gallons of
it for the patients and I wanted to get one. That day I knew I couldn’t be a
drug user (or a diabetic who had to give himself insulin!)
I
once tried to draw my own blood. That was a disaster. I should not have closed
my eyes when I stuck the needle into my arm. I thought to myself, “Oh shit, I
missed!” and I was screaming when I wiggled it around (the front desk staff
came in and screamed when she saw what I was doing to myself.)
I
wanted to send out some blood for tests (the doctor whom I worked with was out
that week and she signed the orders a few days prior to that.) I wouldn’t trust
her to draw my blood either because she had not done it for years.
Never
again!
I was working along (as a school nurse) years
ago. Although I had a nursing supervisor (my boss) who was down the hall from
me, her needle skills were bad (she had not started an IV for ages while I was
doing it almost weekly there.)
