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In reply to the discussion: Theoretically, when a car is parked on someone's property (a hospital in this case) [View all]Heddi
(18,312 posts)All hands on deck--small hospital, like 20 beds. He's getting CPR and tough intubation and chest tube and the whole shebang. The bays in the ER have walls between them but only curtains closing from the RN station. So the curtains are kind of closed but we have 4 code carts outside and xray and ultrasound and every freaking person in the world there for the code.
and I'm on the step-stool (because I'm a shorty and the bed is up to 10 feet off the ground because Andre The GIant is putting a tube down the gullet) doing compressions and i see the curtain pull back a little and I just instinctively turn my head and there's the daughter of this dude 4 bays down who's there for a toenail fracture or some shit and she's got this styrofoam cup in her hand and she's kind of shaking it back and forth, like how you'd do at a bar to indicate you need a refill and there I am doing compressions (Staying Alive bursting in my head) and she's like (total valley girl voice) Um, Ex-Kuse-Me, but, Um, You, like, told my dad you'd, like, get him some water, like, 10 minutes ago.
I said "Uh, kinda busy right now."
She says "Uh, yeah so like, can um anyone else like get his water??
Yes. You can.
They slammed the curtain in her face.
and she's not like 17. She's in her 50's.
Honey, get the fuck out of my ER.