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Today a nurse refused to do a PPD (the little test for tuberculous) because that is a "doctors" job. I have probably gotten like 10+ PPDs over the

Posted by James Bond (aka Igor) (aka Igor) Oct 11 '11, 22:15

years and it was never done by a doctor.
All you do is inject a little bit of solution in the arm and look at it 2 days later.

The worst was that the nurse didn't even tell us she wasn't doing the test. So we are waiting and waiting and then we had to ask her.

:/

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Sounds like maybe somebody pissed off a nurse. - Trish Oct 11, 22:28 8
- (Or, it could just be a bitch nurse. Those *do* exist.) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 22:30 7
  - I vote for this. The intern assigned to take care of that patient is the nicest person we have... who used to be a nurse herself. I am pretty certain - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 11, 22:34 1
    - Oh now that's a whole new situation. (some) Nurses hate other nurses who end up going to med school. - Trish Oct 11, 22:44
  - dogbert, for example -- nm - moles Oct 11, 22:31 4
    - *golf clap* -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 22:31 3
      - he'll jam a metal tube up your pee hole and laugh about -- nm - moles Oct 11, 22:32 2
        
        "What's this testing?" "Testing?" -- nm - Reagen Oct 11, 22:35 1
        
        "I just like to hear the screams." - Mel Profit Oct 12, 06:18
Sounds like a dick move. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 22:23 2
- i don't think that's where you administer the test -- nm - moles Oct 11, 22:24 1
  - its the wrong instrument to use -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 12, 02:01

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