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Thursday, October 9, 2008

If you can't say anything non-creepy, don't say anything at all.

I love my job. For the most part I have good patients. But sometimes I get sleazy men who make creepy comments. Sure I've had a few marriage proposals, and some offers to become a patient's stay at home nurse. I usually laugh at these and play along for a few minutes; these patients are usually harmless. But then I get dirty comments like the time a patient asked me for a viagra while he was bleeding out of an incision near his groin and I unfortunately had to hold manual pressure at the site (sorry if that was "too graphic" for some). He continued to make some additional comments that, well, got worse.
Anyway, this next conversation happened today, and while it isn't the worst I've heard, I just wasn't in the mood. The setting was right before I was going to lunch and I went to check on all my patients. Room 14:

Me: "Hi, how are you doing?"
Patient: "Great! I just had a dream about you."
Me: "Oh really? What was it about?" (my first mistake)
Patient: "I don't think I should tell you." (cue creepy grin)

Seriously? What do you say to that? "Thanks" or "Good for you!"? I think I mumbled an "ok," and left the room. Do these people think they're being funny or complimentary? I'm not amused. I'm not flattered that you're having dreams about me. And in case you creepy men were wondering the highlight of my day is not checking your groin incision for bleeds. Shame on you, dirty men with filthy minds.

1 comments:

peetie said...

Oh please. You know you liked it.