I think of these patients as the victims of stupidity. Allow me to describe the dumb a$$ parent to a tee. Help me out here in the comments if you will:
- The parents smoke and say
- "But I smoke outside." Yet you know that's not true because the kid smells like a cigarette factory
- The parents are filthy and so is the child
- The parents and child smell like socks just expectorated from a sweaty shoe
- The kid is a frequent flier to the ER
- The child has a nebulizer at home but no meds to go with it
- The child has no doctor.
- The child is hyper and cries a lot due to poor discipline
- The child is diagnosed with a disease like asthma yet has no preventative meds
- The parents have some'er teeth and so do some of these kids (some 'er ther' sum 'ern't)
- No matter how old the child, he always has a bottle of milk or juice
- The kid's often wear winter clothing regardless of season, either that or...
- They are under dressed or running around in a diaper
- The child is extra hyper, especially after the breathing treatment
- The child often runs around the dirty floor barefoot
- He drops his pacifier on the dirty floor and the parents lick it off and plug it right back in.
- Quite often there's Pepsi in the bottle
- The kid has never seen a fresh fruit, which explains the inexplicable look when you offer them a banana
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Are you sure that you're not at my hospital in Cincinnati. If I had a nickel for every time I've seen this then I could have retired a long time ago (Even with the economy being what it is).
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