this really happened

I'm at my primary care doctor's office and the nurse comes in to take my vitals. While she is taking my pulse on my right wrist, I tell her that I have a pacemaker. She drops my wrist and moves over to my left wrist and says, " Do you have a pacemaker on this side, too?" I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

4 Comments

oh jeez

by Tracey_E - 2014-03-07 02:03:42

Hopefully she's not in charge of more than writing down what she sees! It's amazing how little people know about them once you get outside the cardiology department.

I'm still laughing!

by Grateful Heart - 2014-03-07 04:03:29

I really needed that today.

I can't read now from the tears in my eyes.

Grateful Heart

Seldom do office docs use RN's

by janetinak - 2014-03-07 04:03:38

in their office. Usually they are Medical Assistants & usually have about 6 months education mostly on office issues-taking vitals,etc. I agree that this is scary but I would assume that an RN or an LPN would know more about a PM than this.


Janet

A nurse? Really?

by Bostonstrong - 2014-03-07 06:03:01

Did she have a name tag saying saying RN? More likely a medical asst.

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