I love what I do, I love my patients, and I appreciate the caring, loving
and concern family members. What I really hate are the selfish family members.
The ones who show up at the bedside and make everything about them. The ones
that make personal demands that have no relationships to my sick patient well
being. Please do not ask me when my patient would be extubated
so he can sign his estate will over to you because he is going to die. Please
don't tell me that you have a lawyer at my bedside that is being paid for each
hour that I am wasting doing nothing. Please don't ask me to be a witness to an
estate will when you know that if you were smart enough to have a high paying
lawyer at my bedside, you should have been smart enough to bring your own
witnesses for your personal legal issues. Please don't get in my face when I
refused to be your witness knowing that you had no business asking me to jeopardize
my license because of your greediness and selfishness. Please take
this outside my bed space. The fact that my patient has been intubated
for days, medicated, can't talk or follow commands and weak but you want him to
still sign this document is just beyond human. There is no way that this
document would be or should consider legal if he signs it in this state of mind.
The fact that you are starting to yell is a sign that you need to get out of my
bed space. The fact that he cannot be extubated today because he failed to
meet parameters that would make it safe to extubated has you thinking it is my
fault, tells you are delusional and really need to step out and away from my
bed space. The fact that you are screaming and security is escorting you out of
the unit is a sign that I really don't care about your selfishness.
