What is the worst thing a patient has ever said to you?

You poor dear it sounds like you had a horrible shift. I have been cussed out and called all kinds of names things like that do not usually upset me anymore. What does get under my skin is when residents or family members treat me like I do not know anything because I work in a nursing home. I have worked in hospitals in the past and I came to work at a nursing home of my own free will (what was I thinking, right) not because I did not know enough to work in the hospital.

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"yeah it's too bad Americans warehouse their family in facilities like these rather than caring for them their selves like other countries do..." *tempting!

I work in a large, inner city teaching hospital. I get called "Fat White B-word-that-means-female-dog" a lot. One time, when my husband was working in cath lab and I was in CCU, he brought me a patient that called him a "fairy ******" and me a "Nazi lesbo". I suspect that guy had issues. I took care of a child molester one time who called me a "******* pervert." That one was really special.

The one that feels the WORST to me right now, though, is when I was called a "soulless, heartless witch" by the parents of a patient who have kept him alive in the ICU for nearly a year while we slice off one appendage after another due to gangrene, his skin has sloughed off due to a drug reaction, and he mouths the same thing over and over all day and all night: "Let me die. I want to die." These parents have insisted that we not medicate him for pain during visiting hours because "then he's not awake to interact with us when we visit." So these stellar parents call me soulless and heartless because, when I had to change the dressing that covers his posterior from shoulder blades to stumps (bilateral AKAs), I medicated him for pain. Because he was incontinent during visiting hours, I medicated him during visiting hours. And then I cried while I changed the damned dressing. But he was too knocked out from the meds to interact with his parents, hence the name calling.

Ok this patient said many gems to me but this one sticks out. And it really isn't that bad but it irritated me.

"Are you pregnant or just fat?"

Ok not that bad huh? The kicker is I weigh 100lbs and she went at least 350lbs. Boy do I love my job!

This morning I had a little old man, alert, tell me- when I went in to check his blood sugar- he looked me strait in the eye and said " You *****, you have ruined my whole day." I thought well dude you screwed up mine a bit too. course I didnt say that!!! Worst part is, he is A&OX3. And normally likes me!! Gotta love LTC!!