Just because you are coughing and sneezing louder than an elephant with a stuffed up nose does not make you priority number one. The guy who just came in with the thumper on his chest wins that prize.
The louder you vomit, sneeze, cry, moan, scream, whimper, and call out does not matter to me if I am in the middle of a Stroke Alert. Since I saw you out of the corner of my eye eating doritos and your girlfriend stroking your head, I decided that I don't like you. You're a level 3, which means you're probably going to get IV fluids and Zofran, but in the common sense world of people who don't think they are entitled, you would have stayed home, sipped on gingerale and when dinner time rolled around your mommy would have made you some chicken soup.
Just because you went to the charge nurse and complained doesn't mean that I'm impressed. What do you think this is? A restaurant? The DMV where you take a number and your turn is called? You going ape shit at the DMV is something I would like to see. The police dragging your sorry ass out of there in cuffs would make a great perp walk. But you wouldn't do that at the DMV, would you? Just because you're in the ER doesn't mean you can act like a fool and we're suppose to take it. So sit down, hurry up and wait, or better yet, make like a banana and peel.
When I saw the BLS ambulance coming in the door with 4 small children on it with you walking aside with your cell phone in hand and a Louis Vuitton bag on your arm I laughed when the charge nurse sent you all straight out to triage. Cold symptoms, indeed! Just because you called the free taxi, er ambulance, doesn't give you and your gaggle a free pass to a bed in the Pedi area.
Since I've got the summer cold from hell right now, my sympathies may be distorted. There's nothing I'd like more than to get me some good cough medicine and take a nice long nap. Not going to happen since I have to be up tomorrow at 5:15 sharp to get ready to go in and take care of more cough, colds, vomit and drama.
So, excuse me while I sneeze really loud and attempt to garner some sympathy from my dogs.
4 comments:
I had to laugh. I am one of those LOUD sneezers...I had pleurisy in my first year college and tons of scarring on my lungs...so if I don't "let it all out" when I sneeze, my chest hurts like a bitch.
HOWEVER...difference is...if I am all sneezing and sniffling...the LAST place I am going to be is in an ER.....what's wrong with those people?????? I am forever trying to keep those ones at home....
I totally thought of this post and you last night when we had one of those make them hear it from the nurses' station "vomicking" epidsodes. Not impressed, ma'am. I wish people understand that the only thing that brings about its wordless WTF looks to one another and lots of shrugging.
We have a couple of loud vomitters that come in. They can literally be heard all the way to triage. Its so nice that everyone can share in your forcing yourself to vomit.
Wow, is this what healthcare has become? Are you tired of fighting with your patients? Low job satisfaction?
I can teach how to survive in your practice and save your Job ......Please I can help you
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