Famous person as patient?

[MarkMyWords]

Have you ever had a famous person as a patient in hospital or clinic? You need not say the reason for their visit for sake of confidentiality, if they are still living. Did they expect or receive special or unique attention?

Were they humble or pretentious?

[turtlesRcool]

2 hours ago, DesiDani said:

Know the site "Not Always Right" some lady complained an employee mentioned her on it. Why she admit to being the awful customer is the question.

Sounds like she just validated the review!

[Daisy Joyce]

Not nationally famous, but I worked at an LTC that attracted the self-made millionaire crowd and took care of a lot of people who had started successful local businesses . They weren’t famous, but their companies were.

Another LTC attracted an old money crowd. So local politicians and the types of people who’s last name gets to be on streets and elementary schools and had children who married well-known people.

[DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN]

On 5/10/2020 at 11:48 PM, turtlesRcool said:

I am intrigued. What is a newspaper agony aunt? It sounds delightfully British.

An agony aunt (or uncle) is the person that does the problem page, commonly known in Britain as the "Agony Column" usually in magazines but also in those lower quality tabloid British newspapers. You know the kind of thing; "Dear Barbara I think my husband's cheating on me and I've just been diagnosed with Ebola, what shall I do?"

I hadn't realised Agony Aunt was such an exclusively British term!

[DesiDani]

5 hours ago, DavidFR said:

An agony aunt (or uncle) is the person that does the problem page, commonly known in Britain as the "Agony Column" usually in magazines but also in those lower quality tabloid British newspapers. You know the kind of thing; "Dear Barbara I think my husband's cheating on me and I've just been diagnosed with Ebola, what shall I do?"

I hadn't realised Agony Aunt was such an exclusively British term!

How do you nicely escape from the room when this Agony Aunt keeps going on and on and on and on and on infinity, when you have many other patients?

OH you meant she worked as one, not someone narrating their entire life story

[DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN]

14 hours ago, DesiDani said:

How do you nicely escape from the room when this Agony Aunt keeps going on and on and on and on and on infinity, when you have many other patients?

OH you meant she worked as one, not someone narrating their entire life story

The one I looked after was delightful, didn't mention her job once although I instantly knew who she was, and wasn't a patient you needed to escape from. Plenty of those, and they don't need to be famous!