Posted by Peggy on January 29, 1998 at 17:40:07:
In Reply to: Re: Topic 3 posted by Joan on January 29, 1998 at 17:36:44:
: : : 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.
That was her plan. She blamed us for his failure to thrive