Apparently Nurse Jackie is very real. And she'll steal your pain meds. A nurse in Minnesota was treating a man abotu to undergo treatment (involving very long needles) for his kidney stones when, to his horror, she shot up his dose of pain medication, then said to him, "You're gonna have to man up here and take some of the pain because we can't give you a lot of medication."

Yikes. 

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Of course, the nurse, a Sarah May Casareto, promptly proceeded to pass out in the room, while the man had to undergo the horror of getting poked with needles in the kidneys with no pain meds. Before passing out, though, Casareto, listening to the man's sceams, urged him to "go to your beach ... go to your happy place." I could imagine this situation was more than a little frustrating for the patient, who was essentially urged to "relax" as his nurse blissfully nodded off as he got he was treated to some renal probing. 

The good news is that Sarah May has resigned and was charged with stealing drugs. It's a shame they couldn't find a way to lock her down for making the patient's life just miserable in general. I would like to suggest sober kidney-prodding as a possible sentence.