Nurse refuses student inhaler during asthma attack

[Igel]

171. Right.

Sue them and get $10 million.

Of course, that'll reduce teachers. Perhaps eliminate the nursing staff; after all, they're the problem.

But it would make the nurse's job untenable. Because the next time a kid comes in with some medication he says he needs and the parents and kid didn't bother to get the forms filled out, the nurse will look and say, "Give it or not?" If it's a legit medication being given for a legit cause at the proper dose--something the nurse doesn't know, because the parents didn't make sure she had all the necessary information--all's well.

If not--if the kid shouldn't be taking that drug, if the dose is wrong, if it's not actually for that particular kid, the school gets sued for negligence. Then everybody jumps on the "the paperwork must be filled out, how dare the nurse take it upon herself to be a doctor."

Then they can be sued for another $10 million, to make sure that class size doesn't go below 40 the following year.

Many people aren't perfect. It makes life hell for those like us, who are both all-wise and all-knowing. It's a curse, to be sure, knowing how uncaring all these people are when it's obvious that all they need to do is be perfectly right 100% of the time for years and feel true empathy for those who we so richly believe deserve it.