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    Hello Kids,

    We had a special snowflake come into the ER yesterday. Her child was a patient, admitted to the psych floor voluntarily. He had called his mother to let her know where he was but asked her to not come down to see him .

    So, she proceeds to drive almost 4 hours to get to the hospital. Ending up at the front desk later Friday evening.

    She runs up to the desk and asks about her son. The clerk checks where he is, sees hes on the psych floor and asks her to take a seat.

    Clerk then calls psych floor. Son makes it very clear that he doesn't want any information released to his mother. Also doesn't want to see her.

    Mother is relayed this information. As imagined, it didnt go over very well.

    "I NEED TO SEE MY SON! I HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHATS GOING ON!!!! BLAH!!"

    She rants for another minute while clerk is trying to cut in to explain.

    Security eventually makes their way over and try to explain. to her. They couldnt get through. Imagine that. Ill mention here that her son was over 30 years old. Not exactly a kid who cant fend for himself.

    When security points this out she keeps going. My friend, J the security then makes an astounding point. "Ma,am he has a right to not have visitors if he doesnt want them. And he told us that right now, he doesn't want to see anyone, including you".

    This gets her to quiet down a bit. "Fine" she says, "Then im going to sit in this waiting room until he lets me up to see him."

    J shakes his head. "No you're not. This waiting room is private property and only allowed to be used by our patients and their visitors".

    She didn't like that too much. "Fine!!!!! THEN TAKE ME TO SEE A DOCTOR BECAUSE I HAVE CHEST PAIN!!" as she starts beating her chest.

    So, she gets signed in and has the worlds fastest chest pain work up ever. She is then escorted from the property.

    Im not sure if she thought that bc she was his mom we could and should break federal law for her and violate her sons privacy. Not happpening, lady.

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    HIPAA applies to everyone but meeeeeeee!!!!!!!
    They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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    • #3
      I SOOOO hope the admitting person put 'Ms. Blank stated she had chest pains when informed she could not sit in waiting room for days until an admitted patient gave in and allowed visitation'
      It would be sooo good to see her face when she got the bill for the tests, and found her health insurance won't pay for false claims used to try and get her way.

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      • #4
        Part of me understands her concern, but another part of me wonders if he didn't check himself in to get help sorting through the volumes of issues she gave him. I'm gonna go with both, because while she may have been concerned about him, she went way beyond overboard in handling the situation.

        She sounds like a drama llama helicopter parent, though.
        If I make no sense, I apologize. I'm constantly interrupted by an actual toddler.

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        • #5
          Quoth raudf View Post
          Part of me understands her concern, but another part of me wonders if he didn't check himself in to get help sorting through the volumes of issues she gave him.
          My thoughts exactly. She'd best back off and understand she's not in charge, otherwise he may decide he's better off without her in his life.
          "If you pray very hard, you can become a cat person." -Angela, "The Office"

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          • #6
            Quoth raudf View Post
            Part of me understands her concern, but another part of me wonders if he didn't check himself in to get help sorting through the volumes of issues she gave him. I'm gonna go with both, because while she may have been concerned about him, she went way beyond overboard in handling the situation.

            She sounds like a drama llama helicopter parent, though.
            Maybe she thought that when a patient checks him/herself into a mental hospital, they become incompetent of handling their own affairs?

            Agreed on the drama llama helicopter parent though.
            The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom

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