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  • Drunk doesn't give you the right to be an @sshat.

    Alright, first time post in the SC section here. So just a quick little one.

    A little background, I work in a hospital. in the DI dept. (digital imaging, xrays, ultrasound, catscans etc.)
    I work nights, so I get alot of the crazies and weirdos that my daytime CW's never (or rarely) see.
    And yes the SC was drunk. but IMO being drunk doesn't give you an excuse for anything. it was YOUR choice to get wasted. (also i've gotten drunk lots and never done anything too bad :P).

    ME = me (hard to figure out eh?)
    SC = sucky customer

    SC gets sent over to me because he's punched his hand through a glass window at some point earlier in the night. so he needs his hand xrayed to look for glass in it.

    Me: Alright SC come on in have a seat and i'll get a few xrays of that hand for the Dr.
    SC: Dr is an asshole.
    Me: - (no response cuz i dont have any response that WONT get me written up)
    SC: he called me an idiot for doing this 2 my hand.
    Me: you punched a window.
    SC: so? he's an ass telling me that I shouldn't have done that.
    Me: you PUNCHED your hand THROUGH a window.

    *this went on for a good.... 5 minutes. with variations on SC's part about just how much/what kind of an ass DR X was*

    finally. after me basically repeating 'you punched your fist through a window' over and over. he finally clued in i WASNT about to agree and say 'yes you're correct the DR i work with on a regular basis IS an asshole, your drunken hick opinion has shown me the light. oh glory!' (and yes this guy looked like the mutant offspring of jeff foxworthy and larry the cable guy).
    and he finally shut up and didn't say a word while i got the xrays needed.

    Alright. this one wasn't so great. but it's one thats bugged me for a good... 6 or 7 months now so now that i've found this aweosme site I needed to share it.
    Common sense... So rare it's a goddamn superpower.

  • #2
    A lot of Drs & Nurses are sympathetic if you've been hurt through no fault of your own (Stairs giving way, doors closing on hands that sort of thing) but when you do silly shit like cut through your safety line and your upper thigh with a chainsaw while cutting off boughs, or indeed this sort of malarky they're a little less sympathetic.
    A PSA, if I may, as well as another.

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    • #3
      One time when I had a trip to casualty:

      Me: I might have broken my ankle kicking a tree, pretty stupid eh?
      Doctor: Well it's not the supidest injury I've seen.

      (It turned out to be a sprain)

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      • #4
        http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=257985

        Things I learned from my patients thread from the emergency med section ...

        50+ pages of hysterial posts ...
        EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.

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        • #5
          In the UK, if you roll into casualty drunk you get last priority because the nurses there assume its a drunken stupid injury thats entirely your own fault. Unless you're bleeding to death etc of course.

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          • #6
            You shouldn't argue with drunks. SCs are stupid enough as it is sober.
            How was I supposed to know someone was slipping you Birth Control in the food I've been making for you lately?

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            • #7
              Quoth MergedLoki View Post
              SC: Dr is an asshole.
              Me: - (no response cuz i dont have any response that WONT get me written up)
              SC: he called me an idiot for doing this 2 my hand.
              Obviously the doctor's a brilliant diagnostician. Idiots like to put their hands where they don't belong. You smashed your fist through a window. Therefore, you are indeed an idiot.
              I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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              • #8
                Don't get me started on my dad.
                Last time he went to the hospital for a self-inflicted injury, his doctor literally rofled.

                I ain't kidding.

                She was laughing so hard she had tears in her eyes.

                We forgave her because it's a natural reaction to my dad hurting himself.

                He's... creative.
                Now would be a good time to visit So Very Unofficial!

                "I've had so many nasty customers this week, my bottomless pit is now ankle-deep."-Me.

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                • #9
                  Heres a good one from a few years back.....

                  ...Questionably sober lady SHOT HER OWN ARM OFF with a 12 gage sawed off shotgun....b/c there were cats meowing loudly in her backyard at 2am ....then, with her arm hanging off in the ER, is SCREAMING that theyre trying to draw blood from her good arm.

                  She didnt have very good aim, Ill tell you that.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth MergedLoki View Post
                    (and yes this guy looked like the mutant offspring of jeff foxworthy and larry the cable guy).
                    Oh, was he one of the Peacock boys?
                    http://chicago.metromix.com/tv/essay...3/photo/707548
                    It's floating wicker propelled by fire!

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                    • #11
                      Quoth crafty View Post
                      In the UK, if you roll into casualty drunk you get last priority because the nurses there assume its a drunken stupid injury thats entirely your own fault.

                      My drunken stupid injuries(yes I've had several) were always the sort that I waited until sober to deal with-didn't want to inflict my drunken self on the poor innocent staff-however the conversation normally went like:

                      Medical staff-"how did you injure yourself?"
                      Me-"not being a responsible adult"
                      MS-"what"
                      Me-"I was being drunk and stupid, surprisingly the two seem to be related. I'm sober now please fix me"
                      Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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                      • #12
                        Would an Xray also see something like a shard of a plate that's healed well under now?

                        I know it's there, hurts like the devil, but it didn't hurt at the time it happened so I foolishly thought it was ok. I've waited to get anything done since I didn't want to waste the money for a doc's appt only to be told they couldn't find it and couldn't do anything about it.
                        "English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results."
                        - H. Beam Piper

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Shironu-Akaineko View Post
                          Don't get me started on my dad.
                          Last time he went to the hospital for a self-inflicted injury, his doctor literally rofled.
                          But... but... What did he do to himself that had the doctor rofling?

                          ^-.-^
                          Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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                          • #14
                            Oh, man. Beware anyone named "Some Dude."

                            some of those are really funny.

                            Although the one where the family is bitching at the attending about how he better start looking for their dying father's missing dentures or there'll be hell to pay...

                            WTF?
                            The best karma is letting a jerk bash himself senseless on the wall of your polite indifference.

                            The stupid is strong with this one.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Shironu-Akaineko View Post
                              Last time he went to the hospital for a self-inflicted injury, his doctor literally rofled.
                              Okay, you HAVE to tell us what your dad did to turn a medical professional who has unquestionably seen many bizarre things into a giggling pile of goo.

                              "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                              Still A Customer."

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