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NP and I think people that work in the ER either hate people to start with or come to hate people through their jobs.

I've been in an ER three times in my life and each one was traumatic, largely due to absolutely horrible doctors.  One screamed at me for bleeding on his shoes and stormed out of the room leaving me alone for another 4 hours before anyone would examine me, another started stitching up my arm and wouldn't believe me when I told him he hadn't numbed the area yet until I was sobbing and begging him to stop at which point he saw the full syringe he hadn't used on me yet sitting right there, and the last told the nurse he was working with that I was probably just a "knocked up sl*t" right outside my open door when I presented with sharp stomach pains I couldn't breathe through at 14 years old. It was appendicitis.

The stitches and the appendicitis were when I was in middle school, imagine treating a child like that?  And the bleeding was when I was a freshman in college and all alone in the ER at 2 AM on a Tuesday night with my family 10 hours away and scared as hell.  Don't tell me that "oh the job leaves you jaded" as if that excuses this kind of behavior.  GTFO and get a new job, then.  [/quote]

My brother and SIL are doctors and yes, they have been trained, in med school and afterwards, to hate people.  I think it's inadvertent, but the training is definitely there.[/quote]

The training comes from patients who are overly demanding, rude, and ridiculous. The ER is not a pain management clinic. Don’t use it like one. A pain management clinic is what you need for these problems [/quote]

[b]Was I ridiculous for going in to ask for help with my pain two and a half days after a c-section? Mmmm-kay.[/b] [/quote]

Without knowing any backstory here... I mean, yes, kind of.  First of all that's really incredibly early to be discharged home, and then already back to the ER,  from a c-section.  So it sounds fake.  But even if you meant you were discharged home on day 3 or 4 like normal, and then had increased surgical site pain- why didn't you call your OB or go see your OB?  It baffles me that a woman would have a c-section, lobby to be discharged a full 1-2 days early, and then come immediately back to the ER for IV pain meds.  Yes, it sounds fishy.  [/quote]

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