Call for a Ride Home
A man was seen in the emergency department and discharged. As he walked out, he went to the triage nurse and asked for a taxi voucher for a ride home. When she told him that would not be possible, he went to the phone, called the AT&T operator and asked that an ambulance be sent to take him home.
I’m In the Wrong Hospital
A man called the ED from the hospital across town asking that we pick him up and take him to our ED as he had accidentally gone to the wrong hospital.