Posted by Joan on January 29, 1998 at 17:36:44:
In Reply to: Re: Topic 3 posted by Peggy on January 29, 1998 at 17:32:54:
: : Now it's your time to vent. As a health care consumer yourself, were you ever treated unprofessionally by another health care provider (who probably didn't know you were a health care provider)? And what was your worse patient like?
: I have never been a patient and treated unprofessionally, however I have
: had physicians be very condesending and unprofessional in their behavior
: because they felt I was questioning their abilities
: when they were asked questions about their orders or
: we gave their patients other options than the physician had.
: My worst patient to deal with was the patients wife. The patient
: was a middle aged man who had open heart surgery and
: had multiple complications after surgery. She had some
: knowledge and that made her an expert. She also felt that
: her husband was the only patient we had to care for and wanted us
: to jump when she said jump. She was psycho. She video taped the staff.
: It was the most stressful case I have had to deal with.
Peggy - that's a first. I never heard of someone videotaping health care professionals at work. I guess she was prepping for her day in court.