Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Overheard...

...at local Urban ER in the middle of the night, spoken by incredibly traumatized guy as he's indignantly walking out with tears in his eyes:

"Man, FUCK this place, I ain't never coming in here no more! I can't handle it! I need to go to a hospital that doesn't have THESE sick people!" while he points at a schizophrenic 300-lb woman who is screaming and flailing as she's coming in the door.

Dude. You're in an urban ED, in the middle of a major city on a friday night at 3am. What kind of sick people did you think would be here? Suburban moms with their afebrile toddlers with runny noses? And what was so important that you came to the ER in the middle of the night, but easily left when the atmosphere was too much for your delicate sensibilities?

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