Uncalled for...

working in a hospital....ive encountered and met people during the hardest times in their times....which means that I often meet people when they're not themselves and are rude and unreasonable....dealing with patients in these situations is one thing, however their families are often the most difficult aspect to handle.....families of patients can sometimes be just straight up irrational and unreasonable....as much as we try to emphasize with their situation many are just unreasonable...their demands are often never based on logic and their behaviors are consumed by their emotions, all of which all health care providers are well aware of....

but yesterday, i think i have met the worst of all pts families that ive encountered thus far...we deal with a lot of "difficult" families, but she was something else....this 87 year old lady was so mean and condescending, it was basically verbal abuse....not only did she call all the nurses idiotic and al the residents stupid, she goes on to make this remark after speaking to one of the female residents...."i dont want to speak to her, i want to speak to a male doctor. Women doctors should not be doctors, they should be at home raising kids..." .....um...right, what century do we live in? I mean i understand shes from a different generation, but how can a woman say something so degrading.... whats more interesting is how hypocritical she is...apparently she used to help her husband run the nursing home they own, but every other woman should be at home raising kids...of course, on top of all her horrible comments about how incompetent our staff is, she makes ridiculous demands on all these tests her 91 year old husband should be put through.....then she goes on to threaten to never make a donation to the hospital again cuz we're all idiots....nothing annoys me more than when rich people think that they can use that as a threat to get their way....some of them feel that they're entitled to "special treatment" just because they regularly make donations to the hospital....its great that u are contributing to the advancement of hospitals and science...but im not sure why u think health care providers should treat you any differently.....that would be unethical ...sometimes patients are demanding enough, but throw in the fact that they're loaded, sometimes they become monsters....im not trying to generalize and say that all rich patients are like that but some can be ...and its so annoying.....

i hope this lady is gone by the time i go back to work next weekend.....on a brighter note...im off for 2 days :)