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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Frustrations...

I'm frustrated. Irritated. And it's only the beginning, I am fully aware. But I figured this is the best venue to vent. But seriously? People that refuse to sign DNRs for vegetative family members just so they can continue to receive their government-issued checks? Wrong on 500 levels. Sickle cell patients that rotate through the hospital every week or two and act like they should be waited on hand and foot like it's the damn Four Seasons? Refusing to answer simple questions, or make eye contact, or refuting every attempt made by anyone in the hospital to make them happy? Patients that have to be readmitted to the hospital 3 times a week because they can't qualify for outpatient dialysis?

Pure insanity. And I have low tolerance for BS. My attending however, is amazing. I'm pretty sure she's next in line for canonization.
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3 comments:

  1. Dr. GMay 26, 2011 at 6:03 AM

    Don't worry - you're not the only one. I hate it when patients feel "entitled" to medical care and yet are not willing to comply or take their meds, and instead prefer to end up in the hospital, at our pockets' expense, just so they can have a nice place to sleep, along with free meals (oh and get their Di.lau.did, of course). This is exactly why entitlement programs don't work. I've even seen women that consciously get pregnant - just so they can have another medicaid check given to them in a silver platter - all while the kid is suffering and mom is spending the money on getting her nails done. Ridiculous.

    But, at least there are plenty of good patients to make up for the bad ones.

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  2. AnonymousMay 26, 2011 at 6:50 AM

    It helps if you have very low expectations for people. Then it's not frustrating, just expected.

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  3. nikMay 27, 2011 at 8:02 PM

    I hear you Ella. That is probably the only thing I'm not looking forward to in MSIII-the not-good, unhelpful patients.

    What is worse is they give better patients a bad name. For disclosure, a pretty close family member has SCD, and has crises every so often-always at inopportune moments. He's the picture of health otherwise, but during crises he's a mess. The pain is excruciating (a man your age screaming in agony is not pleasant-yeah it's that bad). He usually has to get sedated. It really disturbs me that other SCD sufferers make it harder for others later, especially since it's a disease that few people know about. Actually it pisses me off.

    Are you finding it hard to treat other patients because of the baddies? I just wanna know what to expect in MSIII.

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