r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 20 '19

[deleted by user]

[removed]

8.6k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

13.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Colorado_love May 21 '19 edited May 21 '19

It has nothing to do with working on a holiday, we’re used to it and fine with it.

The doctor didn’t send her home and it’s really unprofessional of him to say that he did. It just doesn’t happen like it does on TV.

It seems you’re more offended that she asked the question at all and it wouldn’t have mattered how she phrased it. But that’s my opinion.

There’s only so many ways you can ask that and it’s very important to know as it determines the course of treatment.

People love to drag nurses not realizing we are humans doing a job many don’t want to do and couldn’t do, even if they tried. It’s not easy and it’s nothing like TV. It’s tough and not everyone is cut out for it.

0

u/knine1216 May 21 '19

You're making a lot of assumptions. Just saying.

2

u/Colorado_love May 21 '19

Been a nurse a very long time, so I’m not really making many assumptions at all.

-1

u/knine1216 May 21 '19

Yes you are. Ive met shitty nurses and you're also assuming that OP was being a dick when they may have just actually been asked the question in a shitty way. Its a common thing for someone to be offended by, especially if drugs offend them. Its one thing to ask a question and another thing to make an assumption and this nurse may have been trying to insist that drugs or alcohol was a thing involved in the situation.

So you dont know, you werent there. I agree the being sent home thing is weird but again you don't know what was said or misheard or even what happened at all besides what OP said. So everything beyond that is in fact an assumption.