the patient’s wife asked for the nurse manager because she wants to complain. apparently, she believes that her husband is being sexually molested/harassed by the nurses.

the patient is a guy with endotracheal tube. the nurses routinely suction secretions from this tube to keep the patient’s airway clear and to ensure good oxygenation. water or saline is used to flush the suction catheter to prevent from clogging the tube. the secretions often form into whitish/foamy lumps or gunks that settle either on top or side of the saline/water that is collected in the suction canister. the suctioning occcasionally happens when the wife is visiting.

almost verbatim, here’s the wife’s concern: “the nurses are molesting my husband. they put a tube down his throat, and suck all his sperm out. i don’t know what they want, but i see them collect his sperm in that little container on the wall.”

the nurse amanager felt it necessary to share the wife’s concern to the staff, one of them is my sister who works in a county hospital ICU.

true story. because really, you think i am THAT imaginative to make this thing up?

kidding aside, i cannot even make up an appropriate reaction to this story. is this suppposed to be funny or sad? let me know what you think.