When People Request Sleeping Pills

This happened at least once a night during my intern year...

[Azmoodeus]

A patient asked me to wake him up when it was time for his sleeping pill. The

[qaskas]

Ah yes. The patient you're told about who's finding it difficult to go to sleep but is sleeping when you see them. Classic.

[kylerae]

The only unrealistic part was how dark and quiet the patient's room was, lol. Should have had beeps and whines and air blowing super loudly, and really loud reports the hall outside

[iwasalllikeomg]

"I wake up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again! I need sleeping pills!"
"What time do you go to bed?"
"8pm"

[melissawalker]

During a recent hospital stay I couldn't sleep. Instead of asking for something to help me sleep I just got up and walked around the unit every 20 minutes. Luckily it was laid out in a triangle and at the 90° corner was the nurse's station. By 1:00 a.m. they brought me something to help me sleep. I still find it comical that during the day the nurses were encouraging me to get up and walk yet when you do it at night it creeps them out and they want you to go to sleep.

[susandunn]

So glad I no longer work in the hospital setting. It’s like setting the docs and nurses up for failure- if you comply with patient wishes you contribute to whatever dysfunction they have- usually narcotic or diet related. If you do the right thing and deny them their request, your satisfaction scores plummet and you’re on some administrator’s shit list. When will they ever realize hospitals are not hotels?

[lostlife]

The irony that the doctor himself doesn’t get that enough sleep when he comes to check on the patient 😮‍💨😮‍💨

[Dolgorae]

Before my third open heart surgery, I got about 4 days of just waiting at the hospital. Since I had trouble sleeping on the hospital bed and they were done with all the testing, I figured I could go home for those 4 days and come in the day before surgery. I mentioned this during the round and some of the doctors were fine with it but then this one doctor mentioned how they let someone with a similar condition go home for a few days before surgery and she died at home from heart failure. So I was stuck at the hospital, couldn’t sleep for a few days, but I got to live for another decade lol

[hellsworld]

My issue was that I got my transplant and EVERYONE in the ward was over the age of 60. I was 20 years old listening to old people snore, wheeze and cough all night. To stay I couldn't sleep was an understatement. I was in hospital for over 2 months.

[sabrina_doll]

I had this issue when I was in the mental hospital, I have specific medications that just do not work for me or give me horrible side effects, but the nurses tend to believe that you just want specific meds to get high

[deathrowtodisneyworld]

I’m an old nurse. We used to have a brick at the nurses station with ‘Sleeper’ written in white on it.

[Rally-tea]

This is hilarious. I’ve negotiated with many Mr Joneses who say they can’t sleep. The lights are on, tv blaring, head of bed up…I ask if this is how they sleep at home and they look at me like I’m an idiot and say no. So I tuck them in and usually come back to the same sight as Doc Schmidt. 😄

[sandrameesala]

I've actually been here before. both melatonin and benadryl didn't work. and I was only getting 90 mins of sleep at a time for days. Sure I would fall asleep but I'd wake right back up. The pain was unbelievable and I couldn't cry because I had really bad dry eyes. Still can't go to sleep even with benzos but it wasn't as bad as that time. When people say they can't sleep I feel for them. Its hell.

[ungodlytemptations]

I was addicted to Xanax a few years back and I told my doctor to help me quit.
Been clean for 3 years now, however I developed pretty severe insomnia a year ago (sleeping roughly 1-2 hours every two days) and since that addiction is on my record, I'm refused any form of sleep medication.
Shit sucks.

[sossoft]

I love these kind of well-written sketch. Realistic and humouristic and it looks very relatable, like a common situation doctors could face

[cheeto.burrito]

And then a nurse comes in two minutes later to wake him up and take his pulse, and he's calling for a sleeping pill again.

[sadiemcnabb]

On the flip side, when my MIL was first diagnosed with MS they would literally wake her up to give her sleeping pills. Wtf?

[sayurimei]

And then there was me with severe insomnia, chronic pain, just after major abdominal surgery and despite a fully documented transcript of my medical records was made available, my nurses didn't even care about my post surgical pain, super awake at 3am and crying from pain... Gotta love Central America health care

[rkwatchauralnautsjediparty]

Not in the medical field. Still hilarious. Thank you for making these accessible to the plebes.

[JustineMertz]

one time i was in the hospital for almost a week and I was sick of not sleeping cos of the beeping so I asked for something to help me sleep. they gave me melatonin and i loved it! now i take it whenever i need help sleeping.