I don't care how thirsty your boyfriend is.

[Metody]

No, not even if he's gone hours without anything to drink, and no matter how many times you hit the call bell, the nurse doesn't answer, and when you went looking for a nurse to fill your water container, you couldn't find one, so you leaned into the room to tell me your boyfriend needs water.

You know why?

I'm holding two bags of IV fluid, with a third tucked under my neck, and tubing under my arms, and I'm priming tubing for the one under my neck. That purring noise you hear is the blood pressure machine going, and that ringing noise you hear? Is the alarms because my patient's blood pressure is 71/42, and that's after her third liter of fluid in four hours. We're going to code this young lady, and it's going to be a really long time before your boyfriend gets his water, because Miss? Right now, we don't give a backwards fart about how thirsty Mr. Nausea-and-Abd-Pain got after eating those Doritos. But hey, stick around, because Security shows up to codes sometimes, and you were supposed to have left three hours ago.

[Bright_Star]

Why couldn't she have given her boyfriend water herself? What's so hard about filling a glass with water?

[Aislin]

I spent a ton of time with my dad in 6 different hospitals. There was always someplace for family to get water. Ice. Not always. But water every time. And also, there is always a desk, with somwone like a receptionist or a tech or a phlebotomist who can direct you. So lazy butt needs to go fetch her own water and not bug people who are working. Depending on the floor or area in a hospital a nurse can have many many patents and the less sever the illness the more patients the poor nurses and techs have, so suck it up buttercup and get your own bf water and stfu.

[Pixilated]

Somebody needs to point her to the page in the dictionary that defines "triage."

[Sapphire Silk]

Why couldn't she have given her boyfriend water herself? What's so hard about filling a glass with water?

Beats me. Every room in the hospital has a sink in it.

But if the patient had nausea and abdominal pain, he didn't need to be drinking fluids anyway.

[Catwoman2965]

I know every time i've had a family member in the hospital, and twice when i was, I always made sure to find out where the ice, water, fridge for patient food, etc. was. this way, I never had to bother any of the nurses or other staff for things like that.

when I was in for pancreatitis, and was finally allowed to have ice chips, I asked the nurses where i could get them, so I could do it myself. i think they were very grateful i wasn't a demanding, entitled SS.

[Kitten in the box]

Someone with alarms going off in a hospital has MORE priority than a thirsty guy that should have, could have, would have, but didn't leave 3 hrs ago. That lady needed EMERGANCY help! That other lady could have gotten the water for her boyfriend. Jus' Sayin'

[trailerparkmedic]

This is so my pet peeve. All of my patients can see each other, and it's usually pretty obvious when someone is crumping and someone always wants the stupidest things when that happens.

And yeah, he'd have been NPO in the ER (if I had time to yell at him) so he needs to STFU.