So fine! The racist rail passenger and the elderly black conductor who kept his cool

[AnneD]

35. I have never minded....

A Code Brown. That is a legitimate care issue.

But feeding every extended family member from our limited supply of juice, crackers, etc, that is for our other patients chaps my ass. The vending machine is in the waiting room if the cafeteria is closed.

The ice isn't cold enough for the patient, well let me interrupt my medication for all the patients on the floor to take care of that trivial matter...despite the fact that I have given instruction to the machine or told you (and it is clearly visible) that the overworked Nurse's Aid is making her rounds to take care of just that problem for you.

I wish I could say the part about the diet was just an exaggeration, but it is not. Our patients are sick, sometime weak from post op, and prone to infection. It is not the time for a family reunion replete with all the kids that you let run buck necked wild down the hallways.

It is even worse in the ER's. Gang members trying to finish their handiwork, accidents, fevers and other infectious diseases keep things hopping. My hats off to anyone working that uncontrolled chaos.