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This Emergency Room Doctor Shared 6 Things That Made Him Lose Faith In Humanity
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We all know that working in the medical field can be extremely stressful and demanding. Doctors work long hours and have to deal with all types of challenges, including annoying, pretentious and ignorant patients. While we all can agree that being a doctor is a noble profession, even this honorable group gets tired of people.
Internet user by the name of goodyoneshoes shared his experience working in the emergency room and, according to him, his job has made him lose his faith in humanity.
Scroll down to see what this doctor had to say about working in the ER and his patients. (Facebook cover image: Celine Theron Aboud)
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Recently, one doctor decided to share the most annoying things patients do in the emergency room
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According to him, these types of patients made him lose his faith in humanity
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This story received a lot of attention and the majority of people agreed with the doctor
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It's not just in the ER. In most jobs involving serving/helping people, you'll learn how unmannered, rude, selfish, and so on, people can be...
Someone once said that every human being should be required to do 6 months in Customer Service. I think that's a simple and brilliant solution. Can you imagine???
I used to manage a customer-facing team. I told them to pass all the angry, rude or frustrated people through to me. When they did I genuinely found the person calling was okay with me. Being put through to someone more senior made them feel that they were being taken more seriously - or maybe they'd just got it out of their system!! I did tell my staff never to put up with foul language or abuse - just say 'I will hang up if you continue to swear or be abusive to me' and if the caller carries on they can end the call. I'd been in the same job as my staff before so knew it could be bad at times.
That's like my other statement that all politicians should be required to live on poverty wages for a year, including government food and health benefits, while trying to apply for work with a limited wardrobe and CV/resume. Maybe they'll understand what their real job is.
When I was 12 years old, I started in cooking school. At age 14, I got a job serving people, weekends and vacations, while going to school. That's how I know, how rude people can be. And that's a good idea, or serving, cashier, and so on, or a mandatory 12 months in the militairy, like it used to be here. Learn some discipline, instead of being a smartphone addicted little prick...
@ Carol Emory This is what's wrong with the Western worl, not just the US, but also Europe and Canada: DEM2BFEINS...832529.jpg
I'm thinking many of those working in customer service could use training. Patience and simply being polite is often blatantly lacking, and no - the customer is not your buddy, even if of the same age or younger.
And.. you also learn to appreciate all these other folks, the wonderful, kind, patient, understanding, very nice people that are out there. - - - I would have liked to know in which country this AE doctor is working, for one reason because I believe that the more prevalent private healthcare is, the fewer well to do people you will see at the emergency room of a hospital. People with no health insurance probably will turn up there, for lack of access to regular health care.
Absolutely true! I hate dealing with the "entitled" brigade, who think that just because they are paying your wages (buying something in the shop where you work) they OWN every little bit of you and can be as rude and cruel as they like.
I have great respect for ambulance and ER people. Not an easy job.
I hope the doctor doesn't give up. It must be hard knowing maybe you will be the last person the patient is ever going to see in this life. Mistakes and subsequent regrets take their toll.
"Medicine... the IT of humanity...?" Does that include turning the humans off and then on again?! I'm not sure that strategy works particularly well... ;-)
I work in IT. The "emergency" calls are ridiculous, including the all too common....is it plugged in? People expect an IT person to know everything about every program or piece of hardware that has ever existed and assume that every problem has a simple "flip a switch" fix.
John Smith = Boring.
I like most tech nerds. I‘m married to one.
I would say to John Smith to F himself, but i bet he has no dick.
I NEVER had ANY problem with any IT people helping me. The operative word here is "helping". Why would anyone be a d**k to someone trying to help them. Answer: because they can. It's not face to face, so people can be themselves. Amazing what a little anonymity can do.
I know this will sound funny, but you reminded me of an episode of Matlock where he was helping his IT/programming and highly intelligent nephew. He kept asking the nephew to fix his manual pencil sharpener. The nephew kept saying "That's mechanical..I wouldn't know the first thing about it." Just because a person is intelligent in one area does not make them an expert in other areas. Everyone has their specialty. And I think the term you are looking for hhjones43 is..it's was more often than not a PICNIC (problem in chair not in computer.)
High five, Katrin, same here. My husband has a PhD in robotics. So tech and so nerd. ♥
And John Smith the troll strikes again
But computers are horrible, badly made, badly programmed, an badly behaved tools that are inaccessible to most people without specialist skills. I’m saying this as a former IT person who got sick of it all. I side with the users. They’re much nicer when you treat them like people who just happen to not have the same specialist knowledge you have.
I don't even work in IT but because I like tech my friends and family often call me. One time my dad was really angry that his speakers weren't working. I asked if they were plugged in correctly - that made him more angry. He put my sister in the phone and I asked her to tell me where he plugged it in. Turned out he had plugged them into the microphone port. My dad called me from the UK while I was in japan for this 'emergencyy'
That's why the first thing you do when they call is ask for ID. If they're shitheads, escalate them.
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suck it up, hhjones43, nobody likes you tech nerds anyways
It does work just fine. 1528471168...23-png.jpg
Excellent!
First check if they're even plugged in (and also if they've turned on their brain)
Actually yes, there is a procedure called a chemical cardioversion, (you stop a patient's heart on purpose with chemicals and restart it)
Scary shit, I cried every time i saw it done. ....after, later in private. Tears of relief.
It's not just in the ER. In most jobs involving serving/helping people, you'll learn how unmannered, rude, selfish, and so on, people can be...
Someone once said that every human being should be required to do 6 months in Customer Service. I think that's a simple and brilliant solution. Can you imagine???
I used to manage a customer-facing team. I told them to pass all the angry, rude or frustrated people through to me. When they did I genuinely found the person calling was okay with me. Being put through to someone more senior made them feel that they were being taken more seriously - or maybe they'd just got it out of their system!! I did tell my staff never to put up with foul language or abuse - just say 'I will hang up if you continue to swear or be abusive to me' and if the caller carries on they can end the call. I'd been in the same job as my staff before so knew it could be bad at times.
That's like my other statement that all politicians should be required to live on poverty wages for a year, including government food and health benefits, while trying to apply for work with a limited wardrobe and CV/resume. Maybe they'll understand what their real job is.
When I was 12 years old, I started in cooking school. At age 14, I got a job serving people, weekends and vacations, while going to school. That's how I know, how rude people can be. And that's a good idea, or serving, cashier, and so on, or a mandatory 12 months in the militairy, like it used to be here. Learn some discipline, instead of being a smartphone addicted little prick...
@ Carol Emory This is what's wrong with the Western worl, not just the US, but also Europe and Canada: DEM2BFEINS...832529.jpg
I'm thinking many of those working in customer service could use training. Patience and simply being polite is often blatantly lacking, and no - the customer is not your buddy, even if of the same age or younger.
And.. you also learn to appreciate all these other folks, the wonderful, kind, patient, understanding, very nice people that are out there. - - - I would have liked to know in which country this AE doctor is working, for one reason because I believe that the more prevalent private healthcare is, the fewer well to do people you will see at the emergency room of a hospital. People with no health insurance probably will turn up there, for lack of access to regular health care.
Absolutely true! I hate dealing with the "entitled" brigade, who think that just because they are paying your wages (buying something in the shop where you work) they OWN every little bit of you and can be as rude and cruel as they like.
I have great respect for ambulance and ER people. Not an easy job.
I hope the doctor doesn't give up. It must be hard knowing maybe you will be the last person the patient is ever going to see in this life. Mistakes and subsequent regrets take their toll.
"Medicine... the IT of humanity...?" Does that include turning the humans off and then on again?! I'm not sure that strategy works particularly well... ;-)
I work in IT. The "emergency" calls are ridiculous, including the all too common....is it plugged in? People expect an IT person to know everything about every program or piece of hardware that has ever existed and assume that every problem has a simple "flip a switch" fix.
John Smith = Boring.
I like most tech nerds. I‘m married to one.
I would say to John Smith to F himself, but i bet he has no dick.
I NEVER had ANY problem with any IT people helping me. The operative word here is "helping". Why would anyone be a d**k to someone trying to help them. Answer: because they can. It's not face to face, so people can be themselves. Amazing what a little anonymity can do.
I know this will sound funny, but you reminded me of an episode of Matlock where he was helping his IT/programming and highly intelligent nephew. He kept asking the nephew to fix his manual pencil sharpener. The nephew kept saying "That's mechanical..I wouldn't know the first thing about it." Just because a person is intelligent in one area does not make them an expert in other areas. Everyone has their specialty. And I think the term you are looking for hhjones43 is..it's was more often than not a PICNIC (problem in chair not in computer.)
High five, Katrin, same here. My husband has a PhD in robotics. So tech and so nerd. ♥
And John Smith the troll strikes again
But computers are horrible, badly made, badly programmed, an badly behaved tools that are inaccessible to most people without specialist skills. I’m saying this as a former IT person who got sick of it all. I side with the users. They’re much nicer when you treat them like people who just happen to not have the same specialist knowledge you have.
I don't even work in IT but because I like tech my friends and family often call me. One time my dad was really angry that his speakers weren't working. I asked if they were plugged in correctly - that made him more angry. He put my sister in the phone and I asked her to tell me where he plugged it in. Turned out he had plugged them into the microphone port. My dad called me from the UK while I was in japan for this 'emergencyy'
That's why the first thing you do when they call is ask for ID. If they're shitheads, escalate them.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
suck it up, hhjones43, nobody likes you tech nerds anyways
It does work just fine. 1528471168...23-png.jpg
Excellent!
First check if they're even plugged in (and also if they've turned on their brain)
Actually yes, there is a procedure called a chemical cardioversion, (you stop a patient's heart on purpose with chemicals and restart it)
Scary shit, I cried every time i saw it done. ....after, later in private. Tears of relief.