Can't Believe How Some People Act
By angel_smiles
@Lolaze (5093)
St. Louis, Missouri
August 4, 2015 8:04pm CST
I was at my outpatient treatment group today, when I witnessed people try to tell the nurse (who technically runs the place) how to do her job. Sometimes, it amazes me how entitled people act. There is a small group of patients who think they can do as they please. They arrive at 10 or 10:30 each day, when the program starts at 9:30. Then they complain when the staff tells them if they keep showing up so late - their insurance is going to stop paying for them to come. They act like the world revolves around them.
Today, the issue was because the staff will quietly open the door and say a person's name if they need to pull them out of group. Usually, this is to meet with either the nurse practitioner about medication, or to meet with the nurse about health stuff. Today, the nurse quietly opened the door to one of the group rooms to pull someone out - when the group went off on her! I can't believe they had the nerve to do it! I didn't hear what happened after that, but I know she came out of the room later saying she laid down the law with them. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall during that!
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@Oceanblue71 (132)
• Melbourne, Australia
5 Aug 15
Unfortunately there are some not so nice people in the world who don't consider others. They are very selfish and self centred. I always try to treat people as I would like to be treated. The staff of the hospital are trying to do their best to help people and I am sure they are underpaid for what they do.
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@Oceanblue71 (132)
• Melbourne, Australia
5 Aug 15
@Lolaze What a lovely thing to do I am sure she appreciated it knowing you cared.
@Lolaze (5093)
• St. Louis, Missouri
5 Aug 15
@Oceanblue71 I felt so bad for her, it sounded like half the room was yelling at her for doing her job!
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@ricki_911 (21625)
• Toronto, Ontario
5 Aug 15
Sadly, there is a lot of people like this you will find them everytwhere. I know I work with a few of them myself to be honest. They feel they are entitled in a way. Sometimes I think its a show as they have a low self esteem, or insecurities.
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@allknowing (137061)
• India
5 Aug 15
It is the upbringing that makes some what they are today. Nothing can change them.
@topffer (42156)
• France
5 Aug 15
Living in a country where you don't pay for any medical act (everybody has a social security card that is asked at doctor's office and hospital, and it is the state that pays them. The patient has nothing to pay), I am not surprised at all. The sister of a friend is a doctor and told me that 20% of his patients were not going at the appointments they took with her, and that it was rare that they called to apologize... The doctor has to be at their disposal, and they don't care if she loses money because of them : they can change of doctor when they want, but a doctor cannot refuse a patient. What you are describing cannot happen here : if a patient is 1 hour late to an appointment, he is one hour late, and they cannot pull him out. The best they can do is to give him another appointment for another day...
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
5 Aug 15
I'm afraid that the last few generations in the USA have often been treated as though the world does revolve around them, and many have developed an entitlement mentality. Children today are taught more about rights than responsibilities, and they often have not had any consequences for bad behavior.
@cherigucchi (14876)
• Philippines
5 Aug 15
People act things like that and it is really frustrating. Let us not be like them as we know what is right and what is not
@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
5 Aug 15
Some people just feel the need to act out like that. They are not entitled to much. to acting like that. I get it. The one thing I don't get is that they are there for help, and getting the help they need, so why bite the hand that feeds. Strange to me.
