Categories: Scrubs

True (and funny!) stories from real nurses

Taste test

One evening while administering medication to an elderly lady the following exchange took place:

“Hi, I have your medication for you.”

“Oh, okay.”

“I’m gonna give you some Pepcid for your stomach, but I’m putting it in your IV.”

(Patient looked a bit perplexed) “Okay. Uhmmm…I have a question.”

“Oh, what’s your question?”

“Well, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but I was just wondering…why Pepsi and not Coke?”

How can you live with that? –>

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