I'm currently sat in a and e

[Anon9898]

I'm currently sat in a and e and I have nothing to think about.

My husband said do you think and a e doctors and nurses treat more then one person of the same name each day.

Not just doctors or nurses but teachers, sales people. How many times a day see or treat someone with the same name

Please forgive me I am very bored. My son has fallen asleep while waiting to hear of max fax.

I worked for a large international company as a trainee. I got some complex queries on US taxation I didn't know where to start with. It was a relief to discover I had a tax colleague in the US with the same first name, middle and surname 😅.

My grandmother didn't have to change her name on marriage as she had the same surname as my grandfather. A common one. Makes genealogical research more tricky!

Well this is something ID cards would actually help with! In my country you don't need to worry about having the same name as someone else in a&e because the staff will always check your identification number and all your notes will be connected with that number. When someone comes to take your blood they don't ask your name, they ask for that number instead as that can't be mixed up. Same with giving medication, always checking the number.

Not as common as Gary Jones. I suspect.

But I do know a Claire jones

Perhaps think about how many people you know and how many have the same name.

I live in a small town (population about 11,000) and there are 3 of us with not just the same first and last name, but also the same middle initial. How do I know? We all married into the same family! When my GP notes are accessed, a huge warning flashes up on the screen with MULTIPLE PATIENTS OF SAME NAME!

My mother in law had a similar problem. Same first and last name as someone else, including spelling of the first name which has multiple variants, but also the same day and month of birth. Caused no end of issues with hospital letters, dentist appointments, banks etc. before data protection rules were tightened up.

We had 2 sisters start at school with the same names as my girl cats. 😆

In my son’s primary school class there were 6 girls and 7 boys. 2 of the girls had the same first and last name.

Ha ha.
i know a Claire jones!

Same name patients are quite common, even on same ward at same time. It’s something to be aware of, especially if you have a common name, to avoid medical mix ups which unfortunately do happen.
if I am aware a patient has a same name other person in the hospital at the same time I always warn them. Especially if you might need a blood transfusion or special drugs and tests.
Make sure the nurses check your NHS number as well as other details. If they are taking blood for tests make sure they label it at the bedside. This is especially important when taking blood for cross matching for a blood transfusion. It’s one of the rules - nurse who takes the blood must label it themselves at the bedside. Don’t let them wander off with unlabelled tubes of blood for someone else to stick he labels on. It’s how mix ups can and do happen.

Everyone in the uk has an individual NHS number which can and should be checked, especially for tests, samples and specimens, drugs and blood transfusions.

My friends son (aged 7) asked me if I’d rather have lollipops for fingers or roller skates for feet! 😂 Can’t do much with lollipops can you?

When we moved into our new house we were in the garden calling the name of our missing cat 🐈, and the little boy next door answered! We hadn’t met the neighbours at that point.

Yeah it should be checked but if people with the same name are getting mixed up then they aren't checking it all the time. No one (probably) their nhs number so you can't ask the patient to confirm whereas everyone memorises their id number here, as well as carrying their health insurance card with it on, so can confirm with patient every time.

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There is another girl in DDs year at school with exactly the same name. It sometimes gets confusing

I am yooneek. There appears to be no-one anywhere else in the world with my name. I’ve only ever met two people with my date of birth, and one of them is my cousin.

A lot of my extended family surnames are very rare, which has made drawing up my family tree very easy. One is so rare that there are only about seven people in the world with this surname.

Glad to hear you're home.

I work in A&E and literally had this the other day. Exact same name, spelt the same way at the same time. Really confused myself writing their notes.

Many years ago in hospital my urine test results were mixed up with an elderly lady’s as we had the exact same name. Lead to me incorrectly being discharged, told there was absolutely nothing wrong with me and was I sure it wasn’t just my period (young male doctor, I wasn’t even on 🙄) despite being in incredible pain, and sent home at 3am. Turns out I had a pretty nasty kidney infection, GP I went to see the next day was livid and encouraged me to put a complaint in to the hospital but I didn’t want to make a fuss.

I work in a&e, we once had two patients with the same name at the same time- we kept them separated and put one in resus so we wouldn't make any medication mistakes etc

Your response is odd.

You have a very common name and yet you think a consultant is making up 'tall tales'?

You were 'indignant' about it? Weird.

Sorry OP, meant to say hope your DC is ok.

Tip for any future visits to A&E with someone else - always chuck a book or two into your bag.

I don’t understand why you think it’s odd.

i would think it highly unusual for there to be two Jane Smiths in the same small group of people. We’re taking a handful of people here not 100s or 1000s.

Only as high as treating multiple smiths, Jones, greys in a predominantly white area