Ungrateful Bums

The stabbing victim's mom has announced that she expects us to send our security guards home with them when her son is discharged. I should try to be non-judgmental, but if one of the patient's gang-banger friends is out to get him, I don't care. Really, I don't. Even if I did care, it wouldn't change anything. This is a hospital, not a security firm.

These people are taking advantage of us and management is treating them like VIP's, kowtowing to their every whim. Because the poor mamma's boy didn't like the food that we were giving him, his mom demanded a cafeteria pass. The pass entitles her to go down to the cafeteria, get anything she wants and we pay for it. I saw her come back from the cafeteria carrying seven full platters of food. The patient is a big boy, over 300 pounds, but I doubt that even he is eating that much food three times a day. I'm sure that we are feeding their entire family.

They also expect us to send our nurses to their home after he is discharged. That is a service we provide, but only to members. Have I mentioned that they have no insurance? The mom thinks that they should be entitled to the same benefits as members. It's not good enough that we have provided three weeks of hospitalization for free, they keep demanding more, more and more.

There is one thing that I have noticed. Stabbing and shooting victims never seem to have insurance. Why is that?