This post is friends only…cause it’s not really appropriate for public consumption….

How crazy is this! At the Foothills hospital today, while I was working, a woman threw herself through a sixth floor window…falling to her death right next to the main entrance to the hospital. There were dozens of witnesses…

Never a dull moment at the hospital! I’m one week into my rotation, and I have yet to come home without a good story. But seeing a dozen ER staff running accross the parking lot to declare the woman dead, then watching the police clean up the body from the ground and load it into the medical examiner’s van, wins the “wierd hospital story of the week” award.

ugh!

The security guard on suicide watch that looked away for one moment won’t be sleeping well tonight…nor will the person who decided not to admit her to the psych unit after her first suicide attempt this morning. Nor will her elderly sick roomate, or the staff on that unit–particularly her nurse, who’s main duty is to take care of her and keep her alive.

What a mess….