Comments on: “Some Dude”: Public Health Menace

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:18:56 +0000

At Charity Hospital New Orleans, in the ’70s, the most common offering from a stabbing victim was “I got juged (pronounced JEW-guhd) by a dude”. The term lost it’s currency once I got out west to Los Angeles ERs but “dude” abides. Anybody know the etymology of “juged” (sp?) ?
The other common denominator of such victims was the fact they “were trying to break up a fight.”
Samaritans were everywhere.
A New Orleans cop said it all : today’s victim is tomorrow’s perpetrator.

By: arthur machen

arthur machen — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:12:08 +0000

In Mississippi, when I was in training in the 1970′s, “some dude” was so frequent that his name was spelled as “Som Dood”. Under the personal physician slot on the ER form we had “Dr. No name” so often that it was change to the east indian form “Dr. Noname”

Art

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:02:25 +0000

And isn’t it amazing how some of our patients who have been assaulted by “some dude” as they were “just minding their own business” always results in “losing their bottle of Percocet or Oxycontin” that they had just filled at the pharmacy.

By: Madhouse Madman

Madhouse Madman — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:10:08 +0000

I don’t remember who convinced me to go to medical school but it was “some dude”. He also made me pick medicine as a residency.

Taht “some dude” fucks people on both sides of the ambulance ride.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:43:25 +0000

Hey Dudes, this is pretty funny, especially the one about going to the ER for the flu and not telling them about a GSW…That same type thing happens when you get a patient that comes in for a BAD cough and what they actually have is lung cancer, that is being treated by an oncologist but they neglect to tell you that until you begin to pry a history out of them.

By: Brent Michael Krupp

Brent Michael Krupp — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:15:46 +0000

Don’t forget about Some Dude’s brother This Dude. The county hospital ER where I trained talked about the “Dude Brothers” causing the sort of problems you are describing. As in, “yeah, I was minding my own business when Some Dude did… and then This Dude did…” etc.

By: WriteWingBlogger

WriteWingBlogger — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:12:02 +0000

We have ‘those two dudes’ here in the Detroit-Metro area, too! They were also in Vegas when I worked at UMC, and Cleveland when I worked at Metro! I agree with the commenter who said they must be super-heroes, they would have to be to get around like this.

Do y’all get the gsw’s that tell triage they are there for the ‘flu’ and you don’t find out about the gsw until you are doing the exam, and they have absolutely NO IDEA how it could possibly happened or who might have done such a thing?

When the cops show up, it always turns out it ‘may have been these two dudes . . . ‘

Diana, The Write Wing

By: Missy

Missy — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:24:22 +0000

Thanks for making laugh! So true, but funny when you stop to think about it!

By: Aerospace Genius

Aerospace Genius — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:30:25 +0000

Some Dude = Ninja! http://www.imao.us/archives/002343.html

By: symtym

symtym — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:43:53 +0000

When I was at VMC (now UMC, just a “few” years before you) we had basically two types of patients, the Does and the Dudes. The administration for a time didn’t like using “Doe” and we went to a system where every new Doe got a greek lastname and a roman numeral first name. It was ridiculous, I have XVII Omicron with a GSW to the head and III Mu in DKA…that was my intern year. The administration also thought that all the house staff should be color coded by specialty. I was still IM, we got navy blue (called smirfs for obvious reasons) and EM was beige I believe. Knowing house staff at a county hospital, what the administration wanted lasted no more than a week–and everyone changed scrubs. They even put labels on the scrub tops–made them look like “Mr. Goodwrench”–in fact the joke was, “hi, I’m Dr. Goodfinger.” When I was EM, all the scurbs were across the spectrum of colors.

Some dude always consumed the universal intoxicating dose of “dos cervezas” was arrested “for no reason” for doing “nothing” lives “somewhere” …