leswp1
Well-known member
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
- not taking meds because they shouldn't need to do that and are mad they aren't improving
- they have changed the dose to more or less of what we wrote because [fill in the blank]
- and the all time winner-- are sick with something that does not need a script and they are determined that if they push hard enough we will give in and give them 'something'.
It truly amazes me the number of people willing to spend the co-pay to come in rather than try to help themselves or even listen when given advice on the phone. WHen I first started people would never have called for the stuff they do now. They call when they think they might be sick, when they have been sick for a few hours, when they are going away so we need to fix them now, if they have been exposed to a cold
eek if their kid is nauseous, vomited once, their [pick a body part] was sore this AM/last night but not now
I could go on. No one seems to know how to take care of the simple things anymore, they would rather call and have someone else work it out because after all they paid for the insurance!!!1!!1111!!!!
Even more fascinating- the people who do not have the ready cash are most likely to insist they come in. When I was counting pennies for groceries I would have died rather than go get seen for a cold. They do it again and again, every time they hear the same thing.
When I first worked as a nurse I worked Rehab. We made up Pain cocktails- 5 ml of cherry syrup, 1 ml of lix multivitamin (masked the taste of everything else) and then the meds. Eventually weaned down to nothing but Tylenol but people thought there was more stuff in it so they had amazing relief. I wish I could do that now for a myriad of things. Our biggest problem is people who DO NOT belong in the office because they are:
- not taking meds because they shouldn't need to do that and are mad they aren't improving
- they have changed the dose to more or less of what we wrote because [fill in the blank]
- and the all time winner-- are sick with something that does not need a script and they are determined that if they push hard enough we will give in and give them 'something'.
It truly amazes me the number of people willing to spend the co-pay to come in rather than try to help themselves or even listen when given advice on the phone. WHen I first started people would never have called for the stuff they do now. They call when they think they might be sick, when they have been sick for a few hours, when they are going away so we need to fix them now, if they have been exposed to a cold
eek if their kid is nauseous, vomited once, their [pick a body part] was sore this AM/last night but not nowI could go on. No one seems to know how to take care of the simple things anymore, they would rather call and have someone else work it out because after all they paid for the insurance!!!1!!1111!!!!
Even more fascinating- the people who do not have the ready cash are most likely to insist they come in. When I was counting pennies for groceries I would have died rather than go get seen for a cold. They do it again and again, every time they hear the same thing.
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Wastes of space. 
