We have a young a&e attender (sickle cell) who comes in at least once a week. They barely look up from their phone when they check in. Or when anything else is being done for them (bloods, obs etc...). No please or thank yous when asking for blankets and hot chocolate. We are pretty sure they’re just hooked on pain relief. I can’t stand patients that do this with their phones. They are so rude, it really takes the piss.
Sickle cell is no joke. Im very shocked you think they are 'hooked on pain relief' irs a horrible disease and one that a lot of pain relief helps if it even touches the surface
What would you rather them do? Knowing they come in every week you should then perhaps know its having an effect on his mental illness, imagine knowing he has to go in every week for pain meds / relief? Or would you rather they even dont get oxygen as did the poor boy who was was refused oxygen and pain meds, had to call 999 from hosp bed and died
Sometimes have compassion. Not every ill person is going to say please and thanks you's. Sometimes the illness is overwhelming and too much. Knowing this boy comes in every week should make you think he has alsp perhaps had enough. Noone wants that. So instead of insinuating he is hooked on pain meds. Maybe educate yourself on sickle cell and how horrible and painful of a disease it is. It is people with your mindset who let others die because of how they percieve someone with an illness. A little compassion wouldnt harm you. And this is why people die in hospitals.
So sometimes please and thank you is something an ill person can barely say when they live witha chroni illness and are in and out of hospital.
With Grace and others who think hospital staff sre below them and think ill of them then thats a different story and they are idiots.
Also, would you be saying the same if this biy wasnt black? We all know black people are the ones rhat suffer with sickle cell disease. A little compassion wouldnt go amiss. After a boy having oxygen denied because they made their assumptions about him lying about not being able to breathe and in pain, that should have woken you up about this boy you see regularly. Do you speak with him? Have a chat with him knowing you see him on a weekly basis because he needs medical attention? Im sure if he wasnt black you wouldnt be saying the same shit