Okay back to the medium sized hospital...

One night....an especially crazy night for our little department..Myself, another lead tech and a per diem tech were busy imaging and working on a new file system

FOR YOU YOUNGSTERS>>>>we used to have these things called file folders where FILMS....Used to be the actual medical record in radiology....NO PACS>>>LOL

Okay...so as we are running around, we suddenly hear the sounds of what can only be described as a "thunderstorm". coming from the vicinity of our Chief Rad's office.  This sound was followed by the smell of the old standard dial soap....we open our doc's office and literally it was raining smelly dial soap rain...

We called maintainance and four of us went to investigate where the heck the leak was....OMG
WE found it.....we had a leak that came from the showers ......dah dah dah dah......INNNNNN
DETOX>>>>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Nuff said

Then we showered ....EEEEWWWW

Okay

So one day, I'm working CT.  A guy and a woman walk to my department with the transporter.  I glanced at the request a few mins earlier...it was a complete abdomen. With contrast, BASO4/The works...

So...I call the woman into the room, I check the date the name, crap it dosen't match...

Now mind you the dude was sitting in the waiting area eating some Micky d's he had carried with him....soo...being the somewhat intelligent person that I am ,  I assumed it was her...

Nope you guess it....the dude...munchin on some nuggets.......O COMON

I spoke to him, asked him what the deal was....SOO on his way to the hospital with "abdominal pain" he had also consumed a big mac and some fries....

His explanation in a Philadelphia accent..."shoot ya never know when they gonna feed ya at the hospital"  I swear!!!

Guess what...The freaking ER and the jellyfish radiologist made me scan him AFTER HE DIGESTED >>>BARIUM>>>CONTRAST< ECT

Needless to say after he consumed that meal...I made him wait 4 hours to drink and he was the very last pt about 6 hours later...

NO PUKIN ON MY SCANNER DUDE!

Sue

So there I was the only tech in a medium size hospital.  I had been doing portables on a man...we will call him Mr. Smith....He was heading for total organ failure.

Well, One night, I was pushing my portable out of the elevator on the second floor.

Someone reached out to hold the door for me....it was Mr. Smith...

I said "wow you look great". He replied " i never felt better"......

I let him continue on his stroll of the second floor.  upon my arrival in the ICU I said to one of the Nurses.."I just saw Mr. Smith strolling the hallways, boy he looks great"

She turned white, looked really puzzled and said "Sue, Mr. Smith just died five mins. ago".  I guess the dear man was walking toward his reward......

Sue

comon all you medical types message me your funny zany hospital stories so I can put em here..

The funniest story I heard was the patient who inserted TV tubes into a certain area.

As a matter of fact this person was famous across the state for his/her ability to insert said objects without breakage..Now to avoid a HIPPA violation, I will not be specific, but lets just say these were all VERY fragile and never seemed to break.....

Recently I tech I met told a story of injuring himself by tripping over the portable.

Now I know the injuries were not funny,but imagine us calling a code cause this pinhead knocked the wind outta him...

In school, our RT school president tied me to a wheelchair and sent me to the fourteenth floor where I became the brunt of much laughter and was not seen for over an hour...HOW BOUT YOU ALL

And of course we used to play baseball on Saturday afternoon using rolled up tape and the compression  paddle from the GI room....This also made a good weapon during the weekly "boys vs. girls competition"