This Emergency Room Doctor Shared 6 Things That Made Him Lose Faith In Humanity
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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"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.
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This person needs to find another line of work. They are burned out. My mom worked as an ER nurse for years when I was a kid. She knew it was time to go when she got like this person. A lot of what is wrong in E.R.s in America is because of our poor healthcare system. Overbooked General practitioners, specialists with year long waiting lists and deductibles that are so high people wait until they absolutely have to go somewhere.
I left nursing and went into forensics. The work was much less stressful. I still have trouble eating rice though.
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"People are bastard coated bastards with a bastard filling." Not sure whether to laugh or cry
This person needs to go somewhere that has only machines and not people with feelings. I broke my back, was paralyzed from the waist down, and was left in the hall for over three hours with no pain relief. I finally screamed for help, and the nurse told me to be quiet, that they were sick people there. If you want to see people at their best, this isn't the place for it.
Lol, to that nurse. Stuff that attitude. I hate nurses that act as if everyone else but you is sick. I've had so many nurses tell me " you're not the only patient" or " there are other sick people here too", no f*****g s**t sherlock.
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Some people really don't get that Emergency Rooms, or A&E in the UK, are ONLY for life threatening injuries and illnesses or for things you cannot deal with yourself eg a broken bone. I know a few people diagnosed with endometriosis and they've gone to A&E when they were in severe pain. Their GP has told them they can't prescribe anything stronger. It's horrible being in pain but that is not why A&E is there. You have to still see your GP. My husband injured two fingers in an accident and had 42 micro stitches putting the tips back together. The staff at A&E said they wished they could show his injuries to people who come in with cuts to let them see what a 'real cut' looks like so that they would stop wasting their time. They said that if it doesn't need stitches it probably doesn't need A&E and people should bandage things themselves. Even if it is bleeding slightly still (not heavily obviously) you can bandage it as it will stop over the next few hours.
This is 3 friends (and some of their friends) who know that it is endo causing their pain, it hasn’t suddenly worsened but they find it harder to cope at times and go to A&E repeatedly. Staff no longer take them seriously as they’ve done all the tests & nothing new is found. A&E STAFF have said A&E is NOT where they should be going and told them to see their GP! I know it’s awful, I am in serious pain & take strong meds that often don’t do enough. I know endo personally on top of many other things. They need a GP to refer them to see if the endo has worsened & may need surgery. A&E no longer takes them seriously & it does alter how A&E staff see others in similar situations. If they do get something fatal they might not be believed! I’m not judging them I’m WORRIED about them. They aren’t taking Nurofen! Between them they have different patches, pills and liquids including morphine and fentanyl.
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As a teacher, I learned early on that people are not the way you think they should be and it was my job basically, to teach them regardless of how I personally felt about them. This doctor sounds like he’s burned out and while a vacation maybe needed another job might also be needed. One of the things most missing in medicine is empathy and regardless of how stupid, desperate, or smelly your patient is it’s a human being and if you can’t see that it’s time to move on to another profession.
I think dealing with people who are angry or frustrated and acting out would be the easy part of the job. The difficult part would be dealing with patients who have caused their own illnesses, refuse to change their behavior, yet demand care and a "fix" from the doctor.
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i have had to use the ER twice in my life as a result of a little 16yr old girl damaging my heart valve after running into me when doing over 100mph around a 45mph corner. 31 yrs later something triggered major heart issues - 2 wks with basically a 180bpm afib first time, then surgery to replace and repair valve, then pulmonary issues setting off congestive heart failure. The ER people are definitely concerned. That said - they almost killed me with a combo of meds that put my BP at 54/50 - almost dead, and putting me into ICU for 8 days as they KEPT giving me meds to reduce my bp and whined about low bp. They put me on a low sodium diet with a diagnosis of hyponatremia - low sodium, which can be fatal and cause heart issues - DUH!. Once their diagnosis is made, MDs do NOT often even listen to the patient. Their plan and meds are set in phukken CONCRETE. So they KEEP me on meds, keep me on a diet that has me losing 10# in less than 8 days, AFTER the 11# of fluid retention is ...
...gone. They say they need to see what my vitals and bloodwork look like on the drugs i will be on at home AND KEEP ME ON MEDS I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE AT HOME. i have to refuse meds after another 2 bad reactions - and they WANT ME TO KEEP TAKING THOSE MEDS!!!! So this s**t is not all one-sided - and while i agree that people can be the s**t and know nothing about health - realize that NOBODY is educating people on these issues. Our schools are designed to make people stupid - and unfortunately succeed. The rich parasites running the economy are working diligently to make society a place in which no values are held, no accountability held to anyone - especially their rich asses - and then this rudeness and societal breakdown is the result. Sorry you got hit by this, but my "best intention" MDs blew it too - and STILL don't listen to patient input...
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Also...calling emergency services numbers for simple social problems is not what it's there for. I was trying out for a job with a local 911 station. A woman called in upset because her boyfriend left after they had argued. The operator asked if he hit her, abused her or stole anything of hers. Nope..none of it. "Well then what do you want me to do?" the operator asked. "Make him come back." The operator was silent for a few seconds and then said "I'm sorry ma'am. If he wants to leave, that's his right. We can't do anything about it." The woman started cussing and the operator disconnected. Can't imagine why he left (eye roll.)
People like that should have lessons in what emergency calls are really for. Makes me so angry that they are wasting people's time.
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Thanks for sharing your frustrations, but I have had a few emergency room frustrations myself. Because I have HOCM, when I go into AFIB, I am completely disabled, barely able to talk, usually can't walk, and the distress then triggers anxiety which brings out my evil twin. I have had to fight for hydration and for the personnel to look at the letters from the cardiologists I bring with me . I carry a letter from a cardiologist that tells the ER to hydrate me, and to not give me careizem. I was even accused of writing that letter (with the Clinic's letter head and electronic signature? I am 76 and not that smart.). If the patient understands the disease, please listen to them, the need for water to bring me into sinus rhythm is pretty desperate. Once when I refused a chest xray, (because I had recent records with me) the ER guy simply kicked me out in full AFib. Now I try NOT to go to the ER and to ride it out at home, a tightrope walk because betas stop AFIB but also drop the BP
Whether you think it or not, you are customer service. Additionally, people pay a sh!t load of money on healthcare and most if us hardly ever use it (thank god). But when the need is there, there are long waits, people that don't give others the information they need, and the ever seedy/shady health companies that want to deny you the coverage and stick you with the bill. Even though you pay 500/m for coverage. It's a horrible system and the lobbyist are keeping it in place.
Emergency room doctors and nurses shouldn't be customer service, they are there to keep you alive and get you healthy enough to see your regular doctor. People misuse the system and expect regular healthcare from a place that's designed to diagnose and treat acute problems, not chronic issues. I know the system is broken, there needs to be a much better system in place, but we can all at least help things out by not using the emergency room as our regular health care provider.
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Maybe ER patients would be nicer if they didn't have to wade thru reams of paperwork before sitting in a waiting room for hours. Maybe ER patients would be nicer if they weren't grilled by medical staff like a bad 1950's FBI movie because they might need real pain killers for whatever there problem is. Maybe ER patients would be nicer if they weren't so worried that whatever treatment the witchdoctors of ER comes up with won't bankrupt them. Maybe the ER patients wouldn't be so rude if they weren't bombarded with invasive tests - tests not required for medical reasons - but tests required for the ER Doctor and Hospital to cover their own asses. Maybe the ER patient would be nicer if they thought they had even a little say in what will happen next. Maybe the ER patient would be nicer if the ER staff didn't treat them like just another piece of meat they have to treat before their shift ends. And on and on and on. The medical system in the States is completely broken.
I was an R.N. and couldn't WAIT to leave the profession!! Every complaint you listed has NOTHING to do with the ER staff, and EVERYTHING to do to do with our for profit health care system!! Universal health care would take care of a LOT of your complaints. With little or no deductions to worry about, people wouldn't wait until they're knock, knock knocking on Heavens door before seeing a doctor. THEN they wouldn't be so sick that they need the ER! Reams of paperwork? That's the insurance companies sweetheart, doctors have nothing to do with that. As for pain killers, we have an opioid problem. Europe does NOT. Maybe we should ask ourselves why!
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I've literally almost died twice in the past three years by waiting too long to go to the ER thinking that what was wrong with me wasn't severe enough, and that I just needed to tough it out. And when I'm in the hospital I try to be the most low maintenance patient on the floor. I'm there to get well, not get waited on! God bless anyone who works in the medical field! Honestly, people are such entitled a-holes nowadays. I can't stand them in the general sense. I was an IT consultant for almost two decades until 10 years ago. I just couldn't do it anymore because...people.
I'm guessing this is in the us? Where I'm from people avoid going to the ER at any cost lol
Why would you go to hospital with a sore throat??? I hate the people who go to doctors with a cold - it's not curable. You need rest. Over the counter medicine will ease symptoms but that's it. Please stop spreading colds by going to the doctors with a little sniffle. As for too much alcohol - huge problem in the uk on Friday and Saturday nights. Too many young people end up in hospital because they drank too much. Please stop binge drinking and wasting time.
Totally agree! I have gone to the doctors and ended up with a cold because people persist in thinking they need help dealing with the everyday symptoms.
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as much as i respect the medical profession, Drs aren't always that nice, i have been misdiagnosed more times than i can remember, had pneumonia they said meningitis and i had a spinal tap aged 5 that still gives me back ache, i had stress rashes from an abusive household that they said was washing powder, anorexia and gall stones they said was hormones, attention seeking or not wanting to go to college and most recently they can't figure out why i had a period twice in one month. My friend, he had a neck ache, he went to the hospital they sent him away with pain killers. 24 hours later he was paralysed from the neck down, had they examined him properly they would have seen a cyst on his spine that burst.
Just suppose though, if the people who didn't need to go to the ER weren't there would these things have happened? If you are a doctor and are persistently faced with people who don't need to be at your ER is it surprising that you start to think that all seemingly minor symptoms are for something that isn't dangerous? Also, having time freed up by having the minor s**t disappear would mean that they could spend more time on each person and could probe more deeply into the situation. There will always be horror stories and misdiagnoses - so many conditions look the same and they are taught 'if you hear hoof beats think horses, not zebras'. Just thoughts...
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Doctors aren't God. People should realize that. Doctors should too.
waiting is a good thing? say that to my son when we had to wait 12 hours in the ER because he had a weird cough just for tell us to go home and rush back to the ER 2 days later because his lips was dark blue!
Might have been best seeing a general practitioner and asking for an urgent appointment.
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I think its problematic because I get where this guy is coming from, but because of behavior like he is doing here, like "you're not the most sick person here" they can dismiss something serious.
i want to meet the sickest people there, who is this elusive most sickest person if they're telling this s**t to everyone there?
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Only time I actually got upset and harassed the ER staff was when my toddler daughter who had recently had 2 craniotomies to remove a cancerous brain tumor and has a bleeding disorder where her blood doesn't clot properly had hit her head rather hard and needed a CAT scan. They kept putting her off because despite the info I gave them they saw me as an overprotective mother. I learned that if it ever happens again I am to call the hematologist and St Jude when I'm on my way to the ER. Neither was happy since if she had a bleed she would have died before the 6 hours we waited was up. On the other hand I waited very patiently when I was in for the kidney stones, though I regretted asking for a lower dose of the painkiller after a couple hours. I don't handle opiates the best, but after 2 hours I would have rather thrown up than been in pain lol
1. While you deal with instances of people trying to con drugs, acting out, or being belligerent, it does not give you the right to treat people as if they will be like that from the get go. 2. Your "privilege" doesn't mean that you should forget that for most people that are in your ED, they are having a far worse day than you, and didn't ask for it. You chose this. Suck it up dude. 3. People do suck, but if you don't like your job, do something else. 4. Dealing with people who have ulterior motives sounds awful. Still, it is part of the job and you should work very hard not to treat EVERYONE like they are a guilty drug seeker. 5. People go to the ER because our system is a complete sham. So blaming them for coming to the ER for a sore throat is just as wrong as going to the ER for that reason. 6. Again, people are in distress and need help. Your coworkers often are short, rude, and purposefully avoid communicating. The issue is not with patients. It is with your patience.
My family for three generations have been in medical field ,my mom herself has helped so many nurses get jobs, brought sick patients to their full health,never asked for anything in return ,but the people have become very selfish they don't care about you or anyone all they care about is themselves
I think there could be improvements to the healthcare system and ERs in general that would solve many of these issues. Drug seekers could be reduced with universal healthcare that would provide people with access to rehab. People would be less agitated while waiting if they were given any sort of information about expected wait times. Universal healthcare could also unclog the amount of people who use the emergency room as a primary care doctor. Also, recognize that drug seekers are in need of medical attention, they have an addiction and while that may not be an emergency situation, it is a mental illness with physical side effects. The frustration for a terrible healthcare system effects both the patients and the medical staff who have to deal with the consequences. As for rape and abuse, society just doesn't seem to care and neither does our judicial system. These are not patient issues, these are systematic societal and structural issues.
Everyone knows that medicine emergency is not an easy job. But from the view of a patient - I had some really unpleasant experiences with doctors at emergency, including one really unbelievable and outrageous. Long story short: I had asthma fit. I did the mistake that I quickly rode to hospital nearby by myself because asthma was not so bad at first but I felt that it is worsening progressively. After arrival I felt really bad. But even when there was actually no other patient they could not care less and I was lying for 2 hours on some discarded bed I found by myself waiting if the asthma leaves. Finally it did .. without any assistance or interest from staff. I emphasize again that there were no other patients. When I felt better I got up and went home. Yeah, I also said something not-too-polite to the woman who managed to completely ignore me all the time. Since this experience I am much less sensitive to these sob-stories of doctors how patients are selfish, rude and whatever.
I used to be a midwife & I quit because a lot of this c**p. I joined because they want to help people but it’s pretty difficult when the public want to abuse you
I completely understand this gentleman and agree with what he says. I'd just like to add the "little" thing that he has forgotten: the violence in the emergency room, doctors and assistants being abused by r******d relatives of the patient, computer screens broken by the same idiots, lack of patience, ugly words and much much more.
I have always tried to be kind and patient to folks in the hospital. I mean, my health and well being, or that of a loved one is in their hands. I've had more than one nurse tell me "we meet people on their worst days" as s/he continued to provide excellent care. I don't do well with the insurance/admittance people...I'm too distraught to do paperwork.
As long as you're willing to accept that it works both ways; that a patient ALSO shouldn't be treated badly either, when symptoms are hard to recognise or if the patient has a record of going to hospitals/clinics for help (it does NOT mean the patient is a hypochondriac)! Also, if a patient with a long medical history tells you how their condition is supposed to be handled; do NOT tell them "I know better, because I'm a doctor/nurse" & don't just handle the situation in whatever way YOU think is appropriate (especially if the patient isn't comfortable with your actions)! I've had situations like this, when nurses TOTALLY disregarded ALL I had to say about my OWN condition. I was reduced to tears AT LEAST twice; once at home, when a district nurse grabbed my right foot, despite warning of my CRPS (I screamed in agony). Then a group of nurses tried to drag me from my hospital bed onto a commode (except I can't use one, due to my CRPS) & I cried. Now I've SO many trust issues; & PTSD... 😓
Yeah it show when people with actual problems are treated like junkies because the jerks have made you less humane. Trust me. The patients suffer also.
Yeah well it shows when people who actually have an issue are treated like junkies because the jerks have made you less humane.
One of the hardest jobs in this world is working in ER&dealing with drug addled violent people who need to be restrained. Unpleasant places, those ERs&to think poor drs go thru all that training just to be abused
I think this doctor may want to rethink where he works. When you are charged with saving humanity and you admit you have lost all faith in humanity, that concerns me. God knows we need good ER doctors but maybe he needs to open up private practice where he can pick and choose nice, compliant patients. Unfortunately people are nasty on a good day, add pain and fear to that same nasty person and now you have a pole cat in a s**t storm! It’s ugly but if you cannot let go of that, you are not working in the right setting.
Ahhh this is true because 85% of the people who have to go to the ER are uneducated, overweight, lazy slobs. The rest are people who actually take care of themselves and had an unforseen emergency. I shudder to think of working in an inner city hospital or any hospital in the South.
I hope you can find kindness and someone who acknowledge how important and critical your job is...
I thought about this a lot. : suggested remedies : 1 Reduce shifts by one a week. 2: start classes in something completely different, for example learn to play Cello, or to throw clay on a wheel. 3: Start a different style of exercise with some sort of target. 4: consider moving job within the medical profession. why: because obviously this is someone good at learning, and those parts of brain need stimulation. , Distraction from misery will help. Will make new friends - that are NOT in same field. __________ from a nurse, who had to deal with same issues.
Way too soon to give up on the human race. Try a career in education first and you'll soon see why people appear unable/unwilling to take care of themselves: even biology classes rarely mention disease prevention and most self-described ''savvy'' health afficcionados will lump chocolate/potato chips/broccoli into one category....''carbs''. When my 85-year-old mother started complaining of both memory loss and unbearable leg cramps, my internet search turned up 72 entries for potassium deficiency while our family physician insisted that such things only occur in the pathologically undernourished. He refused to have her tested. Yet a simple drugstore supplement worked wonders, the problem being that soils are currently so depleted of minerals that severe deficiencies, once nearly unheard of, are cropping up at an alarming rate. All I can say to you is Educate, educate. It's fun, too.
Couldn't read all of this. Whilst I totally agree that there are people in E&E that shouldn't be there, you have to remember that even ridiculous afflictions can lead to death if there is something underlying. Scratched yourself on something? Many people who ignore the first sign of sepsis and think it's a cold. Just saying that anything should be taken seriously. It's your job at A&E. Furthermore, is he asking people in pain to speak politely, not to get annoyed or shout? Is he aware that that is human nature? Has he never been with a woman giving birth? I agree that nobody should be physically harmed, but we have police and law that can deal with incidences like that. In a nutshell, I think he isn't cut out for the job. The money was probably alluring but now that he has to watch real human behaviour he wants them all to be self aware and not annoy him. Eff off and work in a flower shop instead then.
Not A&E.. But I had an experience at my GP surgery. I was going for a routine appointment, and this pregnant lady went in there before me and was in there for ages. The doctor said it was an "emergency" yet before she went in she was laughing and joking with her husband and the same when she came out. If it was an emergency she would have looked a bit more worried? I could be wrong, but I thought she made out it was an emergency when she called the surgery so she didn't have to wait.
most likely, I've seen people do that all the time, feel sorry for the poor receptionists fooled by them and then get abused by other patients
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Oh quit belly-aching. You make 6 healthy figures. You treat thise who likely don’t have access to decent healthcare. Read up on access versus availability in our system. Yes drug addicts will be s****y. They are in every walk of life. Also remember you can leave it all for a nice associate ownership in a clinic and make bank when are done with this.
there are cases of people with pain so acute that it causes runaway high blood pressure and high heartbeat rate. Did you ever treat that? That kind of high blood pressure can cause a stroke or heart attack...that kind of pain is caused by nerve damage, especially to the large nerves radiating out from the spine in the back...nope, no vicodin for me! They thought I was faking....so let's mention the autonomic responses to this level of pain that cannot be faked that they discounted: dilated pupils, cold sweats, trembling, body spasms, numbness in extremities, cramps in extremities, loss of reflexes, etc etc etc. The jerk wouldn't even give me a non-narcotic muscle relaxant that would have limited the painful cramps. Not everyone coming into the ER who has pain is faking, dude. Deal with it. I had stroke, heart attack, & aneurism levels of high systolic. That can't be faked either. So how many people did you kill, actually, denying them the meds they so painfully needed?
So much sympathy and a big hug to you and your team. Please hang in there and try to notice the sweet, hurting, grateful people who actually do appreciate you. Sincere thanks for all you do.
I worked as a CNA II in the ER while I was in nursing school It was great experience, I learned a great deal about the good and bad of the human race. I also learned I'd never want to work in the ER as a nurse. I work as a pediatric home health nurse where I give the very best one on one care I can to my patients without drama and a whole lot less stress.
Definitely number 5 annoys me. I know people who end up on antibiotics for the flu and ask me why I don't go to a doctor when I'm experiencing the same. Why? Well I know how to treat myself rather than be stupid enough to queue in the hospital when I should be resting.
It goes both ways. I was admitted to the ER with chest pains, it was suspected I was having a heart attack. A doctor came in and told me all the tests they were going to run. About 1/2 later my husband arrived and asked what was being done and I truly couldn't remember and I asked the nurse if the doc could come back in to explain it to my husband and the doc showed up and was rude, nasty & condescending that I would dare to waste his time making him repeat himself. Keep in mind I'm in pain, scared and don't know what's going on. He got a big fat F from me, the nurses were all amazing.
My daughter and I have been treated rudely by ER doctors. Do you think I took her to the ER just for the fun of it? Also, it took a chiropractor to diagnose her incredibly painful spinal deformities, in spite of hospital doctors we visited in hopes of figuring out why she had excruciating back pain. So, no sympathy for the doctors from me.
ER isn't the right place for back pain unless, for some reason, you think it's life threatening.
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"who do not even attempt to take ibuprofen or Tylenol for sore throat/fever/etc." It is highly unprofessional thing for a doctor to say. Patients where not tought to be a doctor, how can they know those medecine will work? Moreover - the medecine should be prescribe to heal the REASON of the disease not SYMPTOMES. Do you know what causes the fever: virus or bacteria? Which one you should treat? Tylenol or ibuprofen would be useless if it's a virus and noone will give you pills against bacterial infection (antibiotics) without prescription.... And what if it's a protozoan infection??? Hell, with such doctores you need no enemies...
I have worked in a hospital also. .... And then there is the sick patient, really sick, who won't accept a cuppa from me, unless I sit down with them to drink it. The only way I can make time for that is to clock off and come back to have that cuppa with them . ___ and s/he tells me things about their life that are amazing, and have me crying with her/him. I
It can be a humbling, beautiful privilege. And then a few days later, after they have died, the family/ friends make a special visit to thank me for what I did...... Still brings me to tears a few years later. To know that someone trusted me with their secrets.
Load More Replies... I remember when I needed a lumber punch, they took a while, so I just lay there, when they came up to me, they apologised and I said no worries. Then I was told they had to do the same thing to a four year old girl. I was 21 and in a way stronger place than a four year old :( Doctors, take your time. I hate rush doctors.
I always say that if a person is rude and nasty to anyone helping them, they must have either 1) never worked a day in their life. Or 2) are just nasty to the bone. Since most of us have to work - it seems people are becoming nastier by the day. I was the Customer Service Trainer in most of my jobs, and everyone left training with great skills and a positive attitude. If anyone gave them any c**p, I had them send them to me :) I'm from Brooklyn, and can kill them with kindness.
My position in this video game company where I work also includes customer service, and I've noticed most of the rudeness comes from 1) frustrations; 2) genuine lack of knowledge about the topic matter combined with self-entitlement. Just like you, I always approach them with professional kindness, and it's magical how some people are truly changed by the kind approach. For example, there was this one player who typed out a comment filled with bad words about some contents, to which I kindly thanked for feedback (alongside some professional explanations and apologies, of course). The player who left the comment realised he was rude, he turned kind all of a sudden, apologised for the bad words and thanked us back for giving the attention. There's more examples like these, but just as many people, sadly, just stay a******s. And then there are those who are real sweethearts from the beginning until the end. Always a refreshing pleasure to deal with these users.
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Veterinary school is MUCH harder to get into than medical school. There are very limited spaces, and there are very few schools available in the first place. If you want to be a vet, then you have to have higher marks than anyone who goes into human medicine. ...///... Once you're there, the course is FAR more difficult. After all, you aren't just providing care to one species of creature. You have to be able to deal with a horse with a twisted bowel one day and a parrot choking on something the next. Human medicine is a limited skill set, to say the least.
Wow, I had no idea! No wonder vet care is so expensive and there seem to be too few of them.
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I've been to the ER several times, and I always try to remember all of this when dealing with those wonderful, amazing, underappreciated people. Especially #6--no matter how crappy I may be feeling, there's plenty of people worse off than I am. Helps me pull my head out of my own backside.
Do you have a life threatening condition then? Sorry, that's so very nosy, but I was wondering why you needed to go to ER several times unless you had something seriously wrong.
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Soo true people have become ungrateful ,my family consists of mostly nurses even the males are nurses so one day me my brother Nd cousin all currently studying medical went to hospital where my mom has worked her whole life Nd my mom was in the reception waiting for us Nd as soon as she asked for the forms many people started complaining that the staffs are using their authority to get their relatives checked up before , though it only took few mins Nd again my mom has been taking care of patients even when she was sick Nd so many night shifts where I was home alone waiting for her Nd only one day in so many years three of us went to get checked people lost their minds, piece of shits
I'm a volunteer patient advocate. You should hear the c**p the docs and nurses talk. This guy's the tip of the iceberg. Come in with heart attack symptoms? Eh, you can wait. Come in with a bleed? Eh, you're whining. (Till you pass out, of course. Then you're "anxiety headcase".) You've not slept from that migraine for 3 days and are having hallucinations? Must be a druggie, shut up and go away... Yeah. This is why I volunteer. I know the medical profession from inside, and that's why I stepped *outside* to advocate for patients.
yup, patients are never genuine in their eyes
Load More Replies... In reaction to number 5...put part of the blame on social media and the news outlets. Horror stories of people with Flu like symptoms that ignored it thinking it was a typical illness only to be dead 48 hours later. So don't be surprised when people panic at getting ill with something that appears to just be the common cold. That being said, I also want to state that calling an ambulance should only be done when all other normal transport is unavailable (taxi, uber, friend or family driving.) And you do not call the ambulance if you have a simple rash or cough.
We are not all like these patients. Grow some balls. Tell the whiners to suck it up! Higher ups don't like your attitude? Tell them to get a life.
If we all took more responsibility for our self-care, if we gave up bad habits, if we got off our fat asses and did some real exercise, if we ate like human beings and not elephants and furthermore ate healthful food instead of c**p, if we avoided tobacco in all forms and drank in moderation, if we maintained better awareness of our bodies and our environment, if we brushed our teeth every night, if we drank more water and less soda-pop, and so on and so on, we would make the medical profession's job easier. And you wonder why we have these "nanny state" nut jobs running around!
Ben Franklin said that, it's not in the bible
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Are you for real? This doctor had probably seen a lot of s**t. A lot of s**t for trying to save YOUR life. Yet people like you abuse him, scream at him, belittle him and generally act like an a*****e to the good people in those hospitals. Maybe you could stop complaining and get a job there yourself! I'm sure you won't be calling him 'whiny' after six years in the ER. You inconsiderate troll.
Load More Replies... "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.
Load More Replies... This person needs to find another line of work. They are burned out. My mom worked as an ER nurse for years when I was a kid. She knew it was time to go when she got like this person. A lot of what is wrong in E.R.s in America is because of our poor healthcare system. Overbooked General practitioners, specialists with year long waiting lists and deductibles that are so high people wait until they absolutely have to go somewhere.
I left nursing and went into forensics. The work was much less stressful. I still have trouble eating rice though.
Load More Replies... "People are bastard coated bastards with a bastard filling." Not sure whether to laugh or cry
This person needs to go somewhere that has only machines and not people with feelings. I broke my back, was paralyzed from the waist down, and was left in the hall for over three hours with no pain relief. I finally screamed for help, and the nurse told me to be quiet, that they were sick people there. If you want to see people at their best, this isn't the place for it.
Lol, to that nurse. Stuff that attitude. I hate nurses that act as if everyone else but you is sick. I've had so many nurses tell me " you're not the only patient" or " there are other sick people here too", no f*****g s**t sherlock.
Load More Replies... Some people really don't get that Emergency Rooms, or A&E in the UK, are ONLY for life threatening injuries and illnesses or for things you cannot deal with yourself eg a broken bone. I know a few people diagnosed with endometriosis and they've gone to A&E when they were in severe pain. Their GP has told them they can't prescribe anything stronger. It's horrible being in pain but that is not why A&E is there. You have to still see your GP. My husband injured two fingers in an accident and had 42 micro stitches putting the tips back together. The staff at A&E said they wished they could show his injuries to people who come in with cuts to let them see what a 'real cut' looks like so that they would stop wasting their time. They said that if it doesn't need stitches it probably doesn't need A&E and people should bandage things themselves. Even if it is bleeding slightly still (not heavily obviously) you can bandage it as it will stop over the next few hours.
This is 3 friends (and some of their friends) who know that it is endo causing their pain, it hasn’t suddenly worsened but they find it harder to cope at times and go to A&E repeatedly. Staff no longer take them seriously as they’ve done all the tests & nothing new is found. A&E STAFF have said A&E is NOT where they should be going and told them to see their GP! I know it’s awful, I am in serious pain & take strong meds that often don’t do enough. I know endo personally on top of many other things. They need a GP to refer them to see if the endo has worsened & may need surgery. A&E no longer takes them seriously & it does alter how A&E staff see others in similar situations. If they do get something fatal they might not be believed! I’m not judging them I’m WORRIED about them. They aren’t taking Nurofen! Between them they have different patches, pills and liquids including morphine and fentanyl.
Load More Replies... As a teacher, I learned early on that people are not the way you think they should be and it was my job basically, to teach them regardless of how I personally felt about them. This doctor sounds like he’s burned out and while a vacation maybe needed another job might also be needed. One of the things most missing in medicine is empathy and regardless of how stupid, desperate, or smelly your patient is it’s a human being and if you can’t see that it’s time to move on to another profession.
I think dealing with people who are angry or frustrated and acting out would be the easy part of the job. The difficult part would be dealing with patients who have caused their own illnesses, refuse to change their behavior, yet demand care and a "fix" from the doctor.
Load More Replies... i have had to use the ER twice in my life as a result of a little 16yr old girl damaging my heart valve after running into me when doing over 100mph around a 45mph corner. 31 yrs later something triggered major heart issues - 2 wks with basically a 180bpm afib first time, then surgery to replace and repair valve, then pulmonary issues setting off congestive heart failure. The ER people are definitely concerned. That said - they almost killed me with a combo of meds that put my BP at 54/50 - almost dead, and putting me into ICU for 8 days as they KEPT giving me meds to reduce my bp and whined about low bp. They put me on a low sodium diet with a diagnosis of hyponatremia - low sodium, which can be fatal and cause heart issues - DUH!. Once their diagnosis is made, MDs do NOT often even listen to the patient. Their plan and meds are set in phukken CONCRETE. So they KEEP me on meds, keep me on a diet that has me losing 10# in less than 8 days, AFTER the 11# of fluid retention is ...
...gone. They say they need to see what my vitals and bloodwork look like on the drugs i will be on at home AND KEEP ME ON MEDS I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE AT HOME. i have to refuse meds after another 2 bad reactions - and they WANT ME TO KEEP TAKING THOSE MEDS!!!! So this s**t is not all one-sided - and while i agree that people can be the s**t and know nothing about health - realize that NOBODY is educating people on these issues. Our schools are designed to make people stupid - and unfortunately succeed. The rich parasites running the economy are working diligently to make society a place in which no values are held, no accountability held to anyone - especially their rich asses - and then this rudeness and societal breakdown is the result. Sorry you got hit by this, but my "best intention" MDs blew it too - and STILL don't listen to patient input...
Load More Replies... Also...calling emergency services numbers for simple social problems is not what it's there for. I was trying out for a job with a local 911 station. A woman called in upset because her boyfriend left after they had argued. The operator asked if he hit her, abused her or stole anything of hers. Nope..none of it. "Well then what do you want me to do?" the operator asked. "Make him come back." The operator was silent for a few seconds and then said "I'm sorry ma'am. If he wants to leave, that's his right. We can't do anything about it." The woman started cussing and the operator disconnected. Can't imagine why he left (eye roll.)
People like that should have lessons in what emergency calls are really for. Makes me so angry that they are wasting people's time.
Load More Replies... Thanks for sharing your frustrations, but I have had a few emergency room frustrations myself. Because I have HOCM, when I go into AFIB, I am completely disabled, barely able to talk, usually can't walk, and the distress then triggers anxiety which brings out my evil twin. I have had to fight for hydration and for the personnel to look at the letters from the cardiologists I bring with me . I carry a letter from a cardiologist that tells the ER to hydrate me, and to not give me careizem. I was even accused of writing that letter (with the Clinic's letter head and electronic signature? I am 76 and not that smart.). If the patient understands the disease, please listen to them, the need for water to bring me into sinus rhythm is pretty desperate. Once when I refused a chest xray, (because I had recent records with me) the ER guy simply kicked me out in full AFib. Now I try NOT to go to the ER and to ride it out at home, a tightrope walk because betas stop AFIB but also drop the BP
Whether you think it or not, you are customer service. Additionally, people pay a sh!t load of money on healthcare and most if us hardly ever use it (thank god). But when the need is there, there are long waits, people that don't give others the information they need, and the ever seedy/shady health companies that want to deny you the coverage and stick you with the bill. Even though you pay 500/m for coverage. It's a horrible system and the lobbyist are keeping it in place.
Emergency room doctors and nurses shouldn't be customer service, they are there to keep you alive and get you healthy enough to see your regular doctor. People misuse the system and expect regular healthcare from a place that's designed to diagnose and treat acute problems, not chronic issues. I know the system is broken, there needs to be a much better system in place, but we can all at least help things out by not using the emergency room as our regular health care provider.
Load More Replies... Maybe ER patients would be nicer if they didn't have to wade thru reams of paperwork before sitting in a waiting room for hours. Maybe ER patients would be nicer if they weren't grilled by medical staff like a bad 1950's FBI movie because they might need real pain killers for whatever there problem is. Maybe ER patients would be nicer if they weren't so worried that whatever treatment the witchdoctors of ER comes up with won't bankrupt them. Maybe the ER patients wouldn't be so rude if they weren't bombarded with invasive tests - tests not required for medical reasons - but tests required for the ER Doctor and Hospital to cover their own asses. Maybe the ER patient would be nicer if they thought they had even a little say in what will happen next. Maybe the ER patient would be nicer if the ER staff didn't treat them like just another piece of meat they have to treat before their shift ends. And on and on and on. The medical system in the States is completely broken.
I was an R.N. and couldn't WAIT to leave the profession!! Every complaint you listed has NOTHING to do with the ER staff, and EVERYTHING to do to do with our for profit health care system!! Universal health care would take care of a LOT of your complaints. With little or no deductions to worry about, people wouldn't wait until they're knock, knock knocking on Heavens door before seeing a doctor. THEN they wouldn't be so sick that they need the ER! Reams of paperwork? That's the insurance companies sweetheart, doctors have nothing to do with that. As for pain killers, we have an opioid problem. Europe does NOT. Maybe we should ask ourselves why!
Load More Replies... I've literally almost died twice in the past three years by waiting too long to go to the ER thinking that what was wrong with me wasn't severe enough, and that I just needed to tough it out. And when I'm in the hospital I try to be the most low maintenance patient on the floor. I'm there to get well, not get waited on! God bless anyone who works in the medical field! Honestly, people are such entitled a-holes nowadays. I can't stand them in the general sense. I was an IT consultant for almost two decades until 10 years ago. I just couldn't do it anymore because...people.
I'm guessing this is in the us? Where I'm from people avoid going to the ER at any cost lol
Why would you go to hospital with a sore throat??? I hate the people who go to doctors with a cold - it's not curable. You need rest. Over the counter medicine will ease symptoms but that's it. Please stop spreading colds by going to the doctors with a little sniffle. As for too much alcohol - huge problem in the uk on Friday and Saturday nights. Too many young people end up in hospital because they drank too much. Please stop binge drinking and wasting time.
Totally agree! I have gone to the doctors and ended up with a cold because people persist in thinking they need help dealing with the everyday symptoms.
Load More Replies... as much as i respect the medical profession, Drs aren't always that nice, i have been misdiagnosed more times than i can remember, had pneumonia they said meningitis and i had a spinal tap aged 5 that still gives me back ache, i had stress rashes from an abusive household that they said was washing powder, anorexia and gall stones they said was hormones, attention seeking or not wanting to go to college and most recently they can't figure out why i had a period twice in one month. My friend, he had a neck ache, he went to the hospital they sent him away with pain killers. 24 hours later he was paralysed from the neck down, had they examined him properly they would have seen a cyst on his spine that burst.
Just suppose though, if the people who didn't need to go to the ER weren't there would these things have happened? If you are a doctor and are persistently faced with people who don't need to be at your ER is it surprising that you start to think that all seemingly minor symptoms are for something that isn't dangerous? Also, having time freed up by having the minor s**t disappear would mean that they could spend more time on each person and could probe more deeply into the situation. There will always be horror stories and misdiagnoses - so many conditions look the same and they are taught 'if you hear hoof beats think horses, not zebras'. Just thoughts...
Load More Replies... Doctors aren't God. People should realize that. Doctors should too.
waiting is a good thing? say that to my son when we had to wait 12 hours in the ER because he had a weird cough just for tell us to go home and rush back to the ER 2 days later because his lips was dark blue!
Might have been best seeing a general practitioner and asking for an urgent appointment.
Load More Replies... I think its problematic because I get where this guy is coming from, but because of behavior like he is doing here, like "you're not the most sick person here" they can dismiss something serious.
i want to meet the sickest people there, who is this elusive most sickest person if they're telling this s**t to everyone there?
Load More Replies... Only time I actually got upset and harassed the ER staff was when my toddler daughter who had recently had 2 craniotomies to remove a cancerous brain tumor and has a bleeding disorder where her blood doesn't clot properly had hit her head rather hard and needed a CAT scan. They kept putting her off because despite the info I gave them they saw me as an overprotective mother. I learned that if it ever happens again I am to call the hematologist and St Jude when I'm on my way to the ER. Neither was happy since if she had a bleed she would have died before the 6 hours we waited was up. On the other hand I waited very patiently when I was in for the kidney stones, though I regretted asking for a lower dose of the painkiller after a couple hours. I don't handle opiates the best, but after 2 hours I would have rather thrown up than been in pain lol
1. While you deal with instances of people trying to con drugs, acting out, or being belligerent, it does not give you the right to treat people as if they will be like that from the get go. 2. Your "privilege" doesn't mean that you should forget that for most people that are in your ED, they are having a far worse day than you, and didn't ask for it. You chose this. Suck it up dude. 3. People do suck, but if you don't like your job, do something else. 4. Dealing with people who have ulterior motives sounds awful. Still, it is part of the job and you should work very hard not to treat EVERYONE like they are a guilty drug seeker. 5. People go to the ER because our system is a complete sham. So blaming them for coming to the ER for a sore throat is just as wrong as going to the ER for that reason. 6. Again, people are in distress and need help. Your coworkers often are short, rude, and purposefully avoid communicating. The issue is not with patients. It is with your patience.
My family for three generations have been in medical field ,my mom herself has helped so many nurses get jobs, brought sick patients to their full health,never asked for anything in return ,but the people have become very selfish they don't care about you or anyone all they care about is themselves
I think there could be improvements to the healthcare system and ERs in general that would solve many of these issues. Drug seekers could be reduced with universal healthcare that would provide people with access to rehab. People would be less agitated while waiting if they were given any sort of information about expected wait times. Universal healthcare could also unclog the amount of people who use the emergency room as a primary care doctor. Also, recognize that drug seekers are in need of medical attention, they have an addiction and while that may not be an emergency situation, it is a mental illness with physical side effects. The frustration for a terrible healthcare system effects both the patients and the medical staff who have to deal with the consequences. As for rape and abuse, society just doesn't seem to care and neither does our judicial system. These are not patient issues, these are systematic societal and structural issues.
Everyone knows that medicine emergency is not an easy job. But from the view of a patient - I had some really unpleasant experiences with doctors at emergency, including one really unbelievable and outrageous. Long story short: I had asthma fit. I did the mistake that I quickly rode to hospital nearby by myself because asthma was not so bad at first but I felt that it is worsening progressively. After arrival I felt really bad. But even when there was actually no other patient they could not care less and I was lying for 2 hours on some discarded bed I found by myself waiting if the asthma leaves. Finally it did .. without any assistance or interest from staff. I emphasize again that there were no other patients. When I felt better I got up and went home. Yeah, I also said something not-too-polite to the woman who managed to completely ignore me all the time. Since this experience I am much less sensitive to these sob-stories of doctors how patients are selfish, rude and whatever.
I used to be a midwife & I quit because a lot of this c**p. I joined because they want to help people but it’s pretty difficult when the public want to abuse you
I completely understand this gentleman and agree with what he says. I'd just like to add the "little" thing that he has forgotten: the violence in the emergency room, doctors and assistants being abused by r******d relatives of the patient, computer screens broken by the same idiots, lack of patience, ugly words and much much more.
I have always tried to be kind and patient to folks in the hospital. I mean, my health and well being, or that of a loved one is in their hands. I've had more than one nurse tell me "we meet people on their worst days" as s/he continued to provide excellent care. I don't do well with the insurance/admittance people...I'm too distraught to do paperwork.
As long as you're willing to accept that it works both ways; that a patient ALSO shouldn't be treated badly either, when symptoms are hard to recognise or if the patient has a record of going to hospitals/clinics for help (it does NOT mean the patient is a hypochondriac)! Also, if a patient with a long medical history tells you how their condition is supposed to be handled; do NOT tell them "I know better, because I'm a doctor/nurse" & don't just handle the situation in whatever way YOU think is appropriate (especially if the patient isn't comfortable with your actions)! I've had situations like this, when nurses TOTALLY disregarded ALL I had to say about my OWN condition. I was reduced to tears AT LEAST twice; once at home, when a district nurse grabbed my right foot, despite warning of my CRPS (I screamed in agony). Then a group of nurses tried to drag me from my hospital bed onto a commode (except I can't use one, due to my CRPS) & I cried. Now I've SO many trust issues; & PTSD... 😓
Yeah it show when people with actual problems are treated like junkies because the jerks have made you less humane. Trust me. The patients suffer also.
Yeah well it shows when people who actually have an issue are treated like junkies because the jerks have made you less humane.
One of the hardest jobs in this world is working in ER&dealing with drug addled violent people who need to be restrained. Unpleasant places, those ERs&to think poor drs go thru all that training just to be abused
I think this doctor may want to rethink where he works. When you are charged with saving humanity and you admit you have lost all faith in humanity, that concerns me. God knows we need good ER doctors but maybe he needs to open up private practice where he can pick and choose nice, compliant patients. Unfortunately people are nasty on a good day, add pain and fear to that same nasty person and now you have a pole cat in a s**t storm! It’s ugly but if you cannot let go of that, you are not working in the right setting.
Ahhh this is true because 85% of the people who have to go to the ER are uneducated, overweight, lazy slobs. The rest are people who actually take care of themselves and had an unforseen emergency. I shudder to think of working in an inner city hospital or any hospital in the South.
I hope you can find kindness and someone who acknowledge how important and critical your job is...
I thought about this a lot. : suggested remedies : 1 Reduce shifts by one a week. 2: start classes in something completely different, for example learn to play Cello, or to throw clay on a wheel. 3: Start a different style of exercise with some sort of target. 4: consider moving job within the medical profession. why: because obviously this is someone good at learning, and those parts of brain need stimulation. , Distraction from misery will help. Will make new friends - that are NOT in same field. __________ from a nurse, who had to deal with same issues.
Way too soon to give up on the human race. Try a career in education first and you'll soon see why people appear unable/unwilling to take care of themselves: even biology classes rarely mention disease prevention and most self-described ''savvy'' health afficcionados will lump chocolate/potato chips/broccoli into one category....''carbs''. When my 85-year-old mother started complaining of both memory loss and unbearable leg cramps, my internet search turned up 72 entries for potassium deficiency while our family physician insisted that such things only occur in the pathologically undernourished. He refused to have her tested. Yet a simple drugstore supplement worked wonders, the problem being that soils are currently so depleted of minerals that severe deficiencies, once nearly unheard of, are cropping up at an alarming rate. All I can say to you is Educate, educate. It's fun, too.
Couldn't read all of this. Whilst I totally agree that there are people in E&E that shouldn't be there, you have to remember that even ridiculous afflictions can lead to death if there is something underlying. Scratched yourself on something? Many people who ignore the first sign of sepsis and think it's a cold. Just saying that anything should be taken seriously. It's your job at A&E. Furthermore, is he asking people in pain to speak politely, not to get annoyed or shout? Is he aware that that is human nature? Has he never been with a woman giving birth? I agree that nobody should be physically harmed, but we have police and law that can deal with incidences like that. In a nutshell, I think he isn't cut out for the job. The money was probably alluring but now that he has to watch real human behaviour he wants them all to be self aware and not annoy him. Eff off and work in a flower shop instead then.
Not A&E.. But I had an experience at my GP surgery. I was going for a routine appointment, and this pregnant lady went in there before me and was in there for ages. The doctor said it was an "emergency" yet before she went in she was laughing and joking with her husband and the same when she came out. If it was an emergency she would have looked a bit more worried? I could be wrong, but I thought she made out it was an emergency when she called the surgery so she didn't have to wait.
most likely, I've seen people do that all the time, feel sorry for the poor receptionists fooled by them and then get abused by other patients
Load More Replies... Oh quit belly-aching. You make 6 healthy figures. You treat thise who likely don’t have access to decent healthcare. Read up on access versus availability in our system. Yes drug addicts will be s****y. They are in every walk of life. Also remember you can leave it all for a nice associate ownership in a clinic and make bank when are done with this.
there are cases of people with pain so acute that it causes runaway high blood pressure and high heartbeat rate. Did you ever treat that? That kind of high blood pressure can cause a stroke or heart attack...that kind of pain is caused by nerve damage, especially to the large nerves radiating out from the spine in the back...nope, no vicodin for me! They thought I was faking....so let's mention the autonomic responses to this level of pain that cannot be faked that they discounted: dilated pupils, cold sweats, trembling, body spasms, numbness in extremities, cramps in extremities, loss of reflexes, etc etc etc. The jerk wouldn't even give me a non-narcotic muscle relaxant that would have limited the painful cramps. Not everyone coming into the ER who has pain is faking, dude. Deal with it. I had stroke, heart attack, & aneurism levels of high systolic. That can't be faked either. So how many people did you kill, actually, denying them the meds they so painfully needed?
So much sympathy and a big hug to you and your team. Please hang in there and try to notice the sweet, hurting, grateful people who actually do appreciate you. Sincere thanks for all you do.
I worked as a CNA II in the ER while I was in nursing school It was great experience, I learned a great deal about the good and bad of the human race. I also learned I'd never want to work in the ER as a nurse. I work as a pediatric home health nurse where I give the very best one on one care I can to my patients without drama and a whole lot less stress.
Definitely number 5 annoys me. I know people who end up on antibiotics for the flu and ask me why I don't go to a doctor when I'm experiencing the same. Why? Well I know how to treat myself rather than be stupid enough to queue in the hospital when I should be resting.
It goes both ways. I was admitted to the ER with chest pains, it was suspected I was having a heart attack. A doctor came in and told me all the tests they were going to run. About 1/2 later my husband arrived and asked what was being done and I truly couldn't remember and I asked the nurse if the doc could come back in to explain it to my husband and the doc showed up and was rude, nasty & condescending that I would dare to waste his time making him repeat himself. Keep in mind I'm in pain, scared and don't know what's going on. He got a big fat F from me, the nurses were all amazing.
My daughter and I have been treated rudely by ER doctors. Do you think I took her to the ER just for the fun of it? Also, it took a chiropractor to diagnose her incredibly painful spinal deformities, in spite of hospital doctors we visited in hopes of figuring out why she had excruciating back pain. So, no sympathy for the doctors from me.
ER isn't the right place for back pain unless, for some reason, you think it's life threatening.
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"who do not even attempt to take ibuprofen or Tylenol for sore throat/fever/etc." It is highly unprofessional thing for a doctor to say. Patients where not tought to be a doctor, how can they know those medecine will work? Moreover - the medecine should be prescribe to heal the REASON of the disease not SYMPTOMES. Do you know what causes the fever: virus or bacteria? Which one you should treat? Tylenol or ibuprofen would be useless if it's a virus and noone will give you pills against bacterial infection (antibiotics) without prescription.... And what if it's a protozoan infection??? Hell, with such doctores you need no enemies...
I have worked in a hospital also. .... And then there is the sick patient, really sick, who won't accept a cuppa from me, unless I sit down with them to drink it. The only way I can make time for that is to clock off and come back to have that cuppa with them . ___ and s/he tells me things about their life that are amazing, and have me crying with her/him. I
It can be a humbling, beautiful privilege. And then a few days later, after they have died, the family/ friends make a special visit to thank me for what I did...... Still brings me to tears a few years later. To know that someone trusted me with their secrets.
Load More Replies... I remember when I needed a lumber punch, they took a while, so I just lay there, when they came up to me, they apologised and I said no worries. Then I was told they had to do the same thing to a four year old girl. I was 21 and in a way stronger place than a four year old :( Doctors, take your time. I hate rush doctors.
I always say that if a person is rude and nasty to anyone helping them, they must have either 1) never worked a day in their life. Or 2) are just nasty to the bone. Since most of us have to work - it seems people are becoming nastier by the day. I was the Customer Service Trainer in most of my jobs, and everyone left training with great skills and a positive attitude. If anyone gave them any c**p, I had them send them to me :) I'm from Brooklyn, and can kill them with kindness.
My position in this video game company where I work also includes customer service, and I've noticed most of the rudeness comes from 1) frustrations; 2) genuine lack of knowledge about the topic matter combined with self-entitlement. Just like you, I always approach them with professional kindness, and it's magical how some people are truly changed by the kind approach. For example, there was this one player who typed out a comment filled with bad words about some contents, to which I kindly thanked for feedback (alongside some professional explanations and apologies, of course). The player who left the comment realised he was rude, he turned kind all of a sudden, apologised for the bad words and thanked us back for giving the attention. There's more examples like these, but just as many people, sadly, just stay a******s. And then there are those who are real sweethearts from the beginning until the end. Always a refreshing pleasure to deal with these users.
Load More Replies... Veterinary school is MUCH harder to get into than medical school. There are very limited spaces, and there are very few schools available in the first place. If you want to be a vet, then you have to have higher marks than anyone who goes into human medicine. ...///... Once you're there, the course is FAR more difficult. After all, you aren't just providing care to one species of creature. You have to be able to deal with a horse with a twisted bowel one day and a parrot choking on something the next. Human medicine is a limited skill set, to say the least.
Wow, I had no idea! No wonder vet care is so expensive and there seem to be too few of them.
Load More Replies... I've been to the ER several times, and I always try to remember all of this when dealing with those wonderful, amazing, underappreciated people. Especially #6--no matter how crappy I may be feeling, there's plenty of people worse off than I am. Helps me pull my head out of my own backside.
Do you have a life threatening condition then? Sorry, that's so very nosy, but I was wondering why you needed to go to ER several times unless you had something seriously wrong.
Load More Replies... An ER doc saved my mother's life as she crashed into coma. They should be supported if they triage to a walk in clinic all those who go to the ER knowing they don't have a life-endangering emergency. Our med insurance costs are skyrocketing in part because of unnecessary ER visits. Thank goodness for ER pros!
Soo true people have become ungrateful ,my family consists of mostly nurses even the males are nurses so one day me my brother Nd cousin all currently studying medical went to hospital where my mom has worked her whole life Nd my mom was in the reception waiting for us Nd as soon as she asked for the forms many people started complaining that the staffs are using their authority to get their relatives checked up before , though it only took few mins Nd again my mom has been taking care of patients even when she was sick Nd so many night shifts where I was home alone waiting for her Nd only one day in so many years three of us went to get checked people lost their minds, piece of shits
I'm a volunteer patient advocate. You should hear the c**p the docs and nurses talk. This guy's the tip of the iceberg. Come in with heart attack symptoms? Eh, you can wait. Come in with a bleed? Eh, you're whining. (Till you pass out, of course. Then you're "anxiety headcase".) You've not slept from that migraine for 3 days and are having hallucinations? Must be a druggie, shut up and go away... Yeah. This is why I volunteer. I know the medical profession from inside, and that's why I stepped *outside* to advocate for patients.
yup, patients are never genuine in their eyes
Load More Replies... In reaction to number 5...put part of the blame on social media and the news outlets. Horror stories of people with Flu like symptoms that ignored it thinking it was a typical illness only to be dead 48 hours later. So don't be surprised when people panic at getting ill with something that appears to just be the common cold. That being said, I also want to state that calling an ambulance should only be done when all other normal transport is unavailable (taxi, uber, friend or family driving.) And you do not call the ambulance if you have a simple rash or cough.
We are not all like these patients. Grow some balls. Tell the whiners to suck it up! Higher ups don't like your attitude? Tell them to get a life.
If we all took more responsibility for our self-care, if we gave up bad habits, if we got off our fat asses and did some real exercise, if we ate like human beings and not elephants and furthermore ate healthful food instead of c**p, if we avoided tobacco in all forms and drank in moderation, if we maintained better awareness of our bodies and our environment, if we brushed our teeth every night, if we drank more water and less soda-pop, and so on and so on, we would make the medical profession's job easier. And you wonder why we have these "nanny state" nut jobs running around!
Ben Franklin said that, it's not in the bible
Load More Replies... Are you for real? This doctor had probably seen a lot of s**t. A lot of s**t for trying to save YOUR life. Yet people like you abuse him, scream at him, belittle him and generally act like an a*****e to the good people in those hospitals. Maybe you could stop complaining and get a job there yourself! I'm sure you won't be calling him 'whiny' after six years in the ER. You inconsiderate troll.
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