You're doing it wrong!

[iradney]

My Dad's an anaesthetist. He can't have a big ego, my Mom and I won't allow it He always goes to his patients before the op, has a chat with them, tells them what he'll be doing, asks for their concerns etc etc. Sees them afterwards as well to make sure they're properly awake.
Mind you, he DOES long for a day when he can don a blood-drenched coat, adopt a manic expression, and grab a rubber mallet and tell the patient that's how he's gonna get put to sleep. I've said to my Dad he can do it to me the next time I get sliced open. heehee.
Dad says that the surgeons are the worst tho...GINORMOUS egos.

[Starlord]

I have to admit to being a sucky customer (patient) once, but it was a disagreement over how my body worked. I had my gall bladder removed, and when I came out from under the anasthetic, they brought me a meal tray. I took the cover off, and was faced with broth, jello, weak tea, etc. I told the two nurses who were making my life miserable that I needed real food. they informed me that the doctor ordered the liquid diet, as they didn't want me to get sick, because of the anasthetic. I told them I knew how my body worked, and that if I did not get real food, I WOULD get sick. They did not believe me and continued making me miserable. It was not long before they found that I was a projectile vomiter, when I painted the wall on the opposite side of the room. They finally broke down and brought me a tray of regular diet, and had the attitude of "Now, you are gonna get sick for sure." It blew their minds when I ate every bit of food with great relish, then asked if I could have another cup of coffee. Now, at that hospital, they know that I know how my body works, and they can't tell me otherwise.

[Dips]

What's insane to me is that the ones who are most likely to be asses (well, besides cardiologists) are pediatricians.

How assy are pediatric cardiologists?

Note: I am just kidding around. I've never met a pediatric cardiologist who wasn't awesome.

[mischugenah]

A joke

How many surgeons does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Just one. They hang onto the bulb and the whole world revolved around them.

This is my dad's favorite joke. Anyone care to guess his and my brother's profession?

Be careful making general statements, not all doctors are arrogant jerks, just the ones who stick in your mind.

And on the flip side, I worked as an aide for years, and our dietary department was insanely unreliable. There were many times I stood and watched a nurse change the diet in the computer, then call to make sure they got it, and the tray STILL came up wrong.

[air914]

I was in the hospital just a couple months back for a sleep apnea surgery. Basically, they scraped tissue from my nose and throat - sort of like a tonsillectomy. What do they bring me for my first "meal?" HOT soup, soda, bread, and a banana - NONE of which I was allowed to eat. I don't know who sent the orders down but my mom was pretty pissed. It also took awhile to get anything to replace that ofod.

And oh my gosh if you wanted another jello it was like an hour and a half before you could get someone to bring it to you. And God forbid you ask for a few at a time b/c you knew how long it took.... and then.... the hospital ran out of jello!!!! WHAT??? They brought those tiny little cups of jello instead of the jello cubes... and somehow ran completely out. I also asked for sherbert a couple of times and again it took them soooooooooo long to bring it. A couple nurses kept telling us they had them at the nurse's desk - they didn't. I'm sure they're busy but heck, then bring me a couple of sherberts or jellos at a time so I don't have to wait 5 hours between "meals" of one tiny cup of something. It was crazy.

[Lil Bunny]

Now, at that hospital, they know that I know how my body works, and they can't tell me otherwise.

Heh I always feel bad when I end up doing that to the nurses/doctors. My veins collapse in my hands. I know this, they've always done this. So I tell the nurse this and to try for the vein in my arm above my thumb. She very harshly told me that she was the nurse and she knew what she was doing. Guess what happened and where the IV finally ended up.

The other time that has me cracking up was when I was in for a blood clot. The pulminary doctor came in and ordered a CT for me. I tell him politly that I can't do that, I'm allergic to contrast dye. He gets this look and says to my mother and I "Well how do you know?" Um buddy, it's in my chart, on my allergy band AND I have seen this hospital for a reaction to it before. Mom got another pulminary doctor in after that who was a lot nicer (and um, really freeken HOT!!)

I do have to say, the two doctors I see are the best. Most people my age would just get DVT pain passed off as a muscle pull or a joint out of whack. They insisted that I go in for the doppler. Bless them both!

[Palomita]

I was in the hospital just a couple months back for a sleep apnea surgery. Basically, they scraped tissue from my nose and throat - sort of like a tonsillectomy. What do they bring me for my first "meal?" HOT soup, soda, bread, and a banana - NONE of which I was allowed to eat. I don't know who sent the orders down but my mom was pretty pissed. It also took awhile to get anything to replace that ofod.

And oh my gosh if you wanted another jello it was like an hour and a half before you could get someone to bring it to you. And God forbid you ask for a few at a time b/c you knew how long it took.... and then.... the hospital ran out of jello!!!! WHAT??? They brought those tiny little cups of jello instead of the jello cubes... and somehow ran completely out. I also asked for sherbert a couple of times and again it took them soooooooooo long to bring it. A couple nurses kept telling us they had them at the nurse's desk - they didn't. I'm sure they're busy but heck, then bring me a couple of sherberts or jellos at a time so I don't have to wait 5 hours between "meals" of one tiny cup of something. It was crazy.

Sounds a lot like the hospital where i work... if its anything like how it works in the kitchen where I work, then the reason it took soooo long for you to get anything is because there is only one person delivering various missing items/trays to people between meals, and that person basically has to run all over the place to bring the things, and then go back down, get whatever else was prepared in the meantime and go back up... which means that in the end, yes, it can take an hour and over to get something... because of the lack of staff...

And if the staff at that hospital is anything like the one in the kitchen where I work... then there's a lot of slackers that don't like their job and don't feel the need to rush themselves or to do their job well. For some reason my supervisors keep hiring people like that and don't fire them before the probation ends... and then we're stuck with them *sigh*

[Imogene]

While I was in therapy after my stroke, I had absolutely the worst nurse ever.

She told me, regularly, to act like I were at home. Okay. Every so often, I'd need to use the toilet, right? I'd go to the nurse's station, and ask for help getting out of the wheelchair I was bound to, to use the restroom. That only lasted a few days before I heard this nurse bitching about me constantly taking time away from the nurses. Er? You told me to act like I'm at home. I am sure as hell not going to use a bedpan every freaking time I have to pee. At home, I will more than likely have the help necessary to transfer to the toilet, you hag.

Every other night, she'd take me into the back room (oooh... look, that stuff that isn't out on the floor!) and hose me down, in a plastic chair on wheels... Oh, yes, this is dignified...

As if that wasn't enough, she would tell me she refused to wash my bathing suit area. But she wouldn't call it that, she'd call it "your gi-gi." Grow up, b*tch. I'm just shy of 18 (at that point, I was), I'm certainly not a youngin', and have a fairly detailed knowledge of my own anatomy, thank you. If you feel like growing up, I'll be over here in my wheelchair, watching Sailor Moon on the TV in the private lounge area where no one will bother me.

[Naaman]

They brought those tiny little cups of jello instead of the jello cubes... and somehow ran completely out.

The manufacturer sealed cups of anything make it far easier for the kitchen to control hygiene issues. But yeah, running out is poor form

[Tigress]

The last time I was at the hospital was for a freak occurance of excess gas due to stress. (Graduating college, helping take care of two sick grandparents, parents splitting up... yeah.)

Every freaking person I encountered kept asking me if I there was a possibility that I could be pregnant, which they were convinced was the problem. It wasn't until they did an ultrasound that they took my word for it.

And, of course, I wasn't allowed to eat anything for the entire day I was there, since they couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. When they finally let me have something to eat, it was when I was getting ready to check out. Even though I told them at check-in that I am a vegetarian, they gave me a huge slab of animal flesh covered in gravy and a few tiny helpings of overcooked rice and veggies. And a tiny cup of the nastiest tea I've tasted to wash it all down.

I tried valiently to choke some of it down since I was starving, but a few mouthfuls was all it took to make me feel sick again. So I tapped out and covered everything back up. When the nurse came to pick up my tray, she gave me a dirty look because I didn't clean my plate like a good little girl.

Afterwards, my mom stopped by Wendy's and I ripped through a garden salad pita*, large fries, Frosty and soda. She said that she wasn't going to do the Heimlich if I choked from eating so fast.

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*I miss those things. They were yummy.

[Gawdzillers]

My uncle was quite rude to some of the hospital staff after a knee surgery recently.
He woke up in some room (not a recovery room either) after surgery, and he mentioned to the nurse that was there that he was thirsty.
They gave him a wet rag to suck on and left him alone in the room for a good 10 minutes before they remembered that they had to get him upstairs.

He had a good bitch about it when we visited him.

[mariamousie1]

Some nurses are from hell. My mom was in a hospital once and the doctor said she could have just tylenol for the pain from surgery, but when she asked a nurse for tylenol the nurse said she couldn't have it. My mom told her to check with the doctor, and the nurse left. A few minutes later she came back with the tylenol, stood in the door and threw the pills at my mom! It really upset her and she started crying, and another nurse asked what was wrong. My mom told her what happened, and the nice nurse went and got some more tylenol in a cup and handed it to her saying "This is how we administer medication here." My mom said the first nurse did that because she was mad that she was wrong.

[Omi Maxwell]

Hn...you'd think that people in the medical field would have more of a sense of decorum. I mean, as far as I've seen, the world of medicine has a strong base in red-tape and beaurocracy. Hearing things like this makes me feel a little safer about having refused to see a doctor for the past five or six years.

[Tigress]

Some nurses are from hell. My mom was in a hospital once and the doctor said she could have just tylenol for the pain from surgery, but when she asked a nurse for tylenol the nurse said she couldn't have it. My mom told her to check with the doctor, and the nurse left. A few minutes later she came back with the tylenol, stood in the door and threw the pills at my mom! It really upset her and she started crying, and another nurse asked what was wrong. My mom told her what happened, and the nice nurse went and got some more tylenol in a cup and handed it to her saying "This is how we administer medication here." My mom said the first nurse did that because she was mad that she was wrong.

For an incident like that, I'd be asking for a supervisor and speaking to the licensing board of your state. Throwing medication at someone is completely unprofessional.

[JustAGirl]

Mind you, he DOES long for a day when he can don a blood-drenched coat, adopt a manic expression, and grab a rubber mallet and tell the patient that's how he's gonna get put to sleep. I've said to my Dad he can do it to me the next time I get sliced open. heehee.
Dad says that the surgeons are the worst tho...GINORMOUS egos.

I would LMAO if my anewhosisologist did that.