#you're acting like a fucking child and it is actively impeding further care to your family like what the fuck bro

[marmotsomsierost]

Advocating for your family and their medical care is incredibly important.

Being upset that you didn't get an explanation of exactly why your family was discharged is understandable. Even if it is clearly written in the discharge paperwork. It can be legitimately difficult to decode the papers, especially if there is a language or cognitive concern.

Like i will even grant that raising your voice and using demanding language is not necessarily the incorrect choice. Something sucks, you shouldn't have to be sweet and deferential about it.

However.

Loudly berating every single person in scrubs that you see and stating how you are advocating for your family, that you just want them to get the care we would want for our own family, we all are terrible and not doing our jobs because we don't care about our patients, we don't care about someone being in pain and how are you going to discharge a patient without running (test not usually done in the ED in a nonemergent situation) or (test you have already had because your doctor ordered it and we have literally nothing to do with in the ED because we neither performed it nor interpreted it) AND you are 'documenting who i talk to and when and what they say and i need everyone's name who says anything to me' AND after spending six hours sitting in the lobby stewing because the doctor hasn't come talk to you yet while loudly calling everyone you know to talk shit about us and rehash all of the above you say - with absolutely no sense of shame -

that you have been taking photos and video of 'people sitting on their ass' not doing anything

And when i say "You cannot take pictures in here" you say "it doesn't say i can't" and when i say "it is very clearly posted several places that it is not allowed" you say "well i don't see them" and security chimes in pointing out exactly where they are you pause and then say - again, with absolutely no shame -

"Well as much as you all haven't been doing your jobs, i clearly didn't read it"

AND THEN

And THEN you say 'i don't care, i have been documenting all of this because my lawyer told me to because this is (reiteration of entire rant from beginning)'

...THIS IS NOT ADVOCATING FOR YOUR FAMILY MY DUDE

and you are fucking lucky that you got the charge nurse and doctors that you did get because if you had a problem with doc A's attitude holy shit would you have gone ballistic nylon batshit pants if you'd had doc B. And if you'd had a different charge or a different house sup you would have been physically removed the second you said word one about taking pictures. Patients have been removed for taking pictures or video, and you're not even the patient!

"I've been here for five hours and the doctor STILL hasn't come to talk to me. That's how much this hospital is worth. They don't treat the patients right."

We have one doctor. One. If the waiting room is standing fucking room only...maybe, JUST MAYBE, he hasn't come talk to you FOR THE SECOND TIME because HE CAN'T.

...

Anyway. Fuck this day, i'm going home and i'm gonna be just this side of blowing my speakers out on some marcus miller to try and regain an iota of patience.

#just #the absolute rotten radioactive fake maraschino cherry on this fucking day #flashbacks straight to that one fucking family member of one of our regulars on the rig #you're acting like a fucking child and it is actively impeding further care to your family like what the fuck bro #and #AND!!! #one of the things they were harping on about how dare we discharge them without (doing thing) #BECAUSE THAT THING IS MUCH RISKIER FOR THE PATIENT THAN WHAT THEY ALREADY HAVE #like it SPECIFICALLY SAYS on the FUCKING INFO PAPER FOR THEM that that is a CONTRAINDICATION FOR USE #B R O #i have such a fucking headache if i didn't need to save my pto i would be like no fuck y'all i'm done #i got on shift and i didn't even get to my ASSIGNED STATION until THREE HOURS because the charge kept having me do shit in the back #YOU HAVE A MAIN TECH FOR THIS #i don't mind pitching in! i don't mind covering for breaks or if the shit has hit the fan #but when the shit has hit the fan up front or i go on my break nobody covers for me #so i come back to four ekgs and a splint and a charge nurse demanding i room three patients and there's four to be triaged still #and sometimes that's just the way shit goes #but when i i'm running laps doing shit and i see a bunch of people not doing shit #it's not a great vibe! #i am using guy williams gifs because he is very pretty and i loved watching that show as a kid #and when i opened to look for my usual picard facepalm there was one on the suggested menu