cute_kittenFor the past three days, I’ve been getting IV antibiotics, because my tube has been infected. They were doing IV because it needs to be pretty aggressive. During this time, I got to spend quite a bit of time in Urgent Care. (our healthcare provider’s equivalent to the Emergency Room) I noticed a lot of things.

You are able to tell right off, who are the nurses that care and who are the nurses that don’t. This is a really sad thing to me. I used to be in healthcare, and I know how the job can get crazy and frustrating and tiresome. But honestly, you should never take it out on a patient. This is not a business where caring about your “customers” is not necessary. But on some level, there are nurses who act that way and act as if they are doing you a favor by helping you. First off, those nurses should just be fired. Nurses who don’t care or have stopped caring are a danger. It just upsets me.

I remember a quote from the show, ER, where Noah Wiley’s character was talking to a resident doing their rounds in the ER after a patient dies. He said (something to this effect) “do you want the good news or the bad news first?” and the resident replied, “the bad news”. Noah Wiley’s character says, “the bad news is: you never get used to it. The good news is: you never get used to it.”

I am totally digging that. Because it’s true. You should never get used to that. It’s a job where you care about the people. If you treat the job like a job, I’m afraid you need to quit. At least do something different. I’ll get off my soapbox now.

Hopefully your times in the ER were not crazy like mine.

Oh, by the way, thanks to Danalyn, I now have nested comments! Yay!