48 Doctors Share The Most Entitled Patients They’ve Ever Encountered

A+Ox4 pt screaming to anyone in the hallway that he needed his melatonin. We were coding the guy across the hall.

I've mentioned this one before but it's still the most entitled:

During a shift change code, another patient hit their call bell end then stupid in the doorway watching us code the person across the hall.

I was running for things as I had just arrived and stopped to see what they needed, she wanted pain meds. I took the time to look in the computer and see she didn't have orders yet.

I explained that the doctors hadn't ordered anything yet and would as soon as they were available.

She demanded to see the doctor right then. I explained that her doctor was involved in the code that she was watching.

She looked me dead in the face and said "I don't give a f**k who's dying, I want my f*****g meds and a doctor right f*****g now!"

Later that night I heard her laughing with her actual nurse about what a "witch" she had been earlier and "how bad" she is. 🙄.

Obligatory not a doctor but one time I had to go to the ER because I was having trouble with instability in my legs so bad that I could not walk and was stuck in a wheelchair for a bit. Some woman with like 3 kids below 10 came in like half an hour before me and my cousin (he drove and had to carry me into the car) and I think one of her kids had a sprained ankle or something but this woman already seemed upset about waiting (trust me you could tell). I went in back before her kid and she was already flipping out because she had been there longer than me but I didn't actually find out what happened because after they did the basic ER stuff I was almost immediately transferred to another floor of the hospital.

A lady called because There was nothing wrong with her 80s + mother. Pt looks good for her age- walking, sharp as a tack. BP was a little high. Whatever, let’s go and go home. We start driving. It’s raining good. It’s 2 am. I’m driving under the speed limit. Medic calls in report to find out they’re on diversion. Mom says “ok let’s go to the other one.” She’s aox4 and can make her own decisions as far as we’re concerned.Daughter honks and pulls in front/ beside me at a redlight blocking the ambulance and part of the intersection (2am no ones on the rd) yells out the window “you’re going the wrong way” I explain we were diverted . “You didnt tell me that before you started driving” I say tiredly “uh we just found out a minute ago, can you move you’re blocking the truck” she says “what’s you’re phone number” I give her medics number cause it’s illegal in our state to have your hand on a phone while driving. She moves. I start driving again. A couple minutes go by. Medics phone rings, daughter wants to know how she’s doing. Medic tells fine but with a little elevated bp. She asks if we can speed it up. Medic yells at her “no, it’s raining and that endangers us and others on the rd” also, I’m not gonna throw my medic around on these curves if I don’t have to. Then she calls again asking if we can pull over so she can give her mom her bp meds. Uhhhhh no b***h, we are now 3.37 minutes away from the hospital, we are not pulling over. You shoulda thought about that before calling 911. Oh she has bp meds..... and don’t even get me started on the blanket that her mom had to take from home because hospital blankets aren’t good enough. And we better not lose this blanket. This special blanket looked exactly like the thicker white hospital blankets.
I’ve heard of helicopter parents but never helicopter children.

Definitely not a doctor, or in the medical field, but I feel still bad for y'all.

When I was 9 I had to go to the child's ER. I'd gotten stabbed in the eye with a pencil; I just stood there away from all of the coughing and sick people with a wet rag pressed to my eye, it wasn't cold anymore after the 30 minute car ride but the pressure still felt nice. I patiently waited for my turn.

Then when my appendix exploded at 16 and even after being in a triage/er room and having my scan the doctors didn't believe me. "There's excess fluid in your abdomen and we don't know where it's coming from, but it's not enough to be concerned about." Thankfully they let me stay the night and after 24 hours I couldn't move, but the surgeon very grumpily said he'll do the surgery but he's still Positive they'll be taking a good appendix out..... After the fact they said it exploded everywhere and was a mess to clean up. But I still laughed and joked and thanked everyone.

Then when my brother called 911 for an ambulance when he botched his home vasectomy he was very calm and apologetic, he felt awful because the on-call surgeon had Just gotten into bed after a long day and had to go back in.

I just can't understand anybody feeling the need to make a huge fuss. Honestly, being a grump isn't helping anybody. Also: if you make things hard for people they'll probably make it hard for you.

Not me, but my aunt few years ago. She at the time and even now works as an infectology doctor. Her department is quite a way from the main entrance, but they do have and urgent clinic in the night. Just saying that for you to know that the patient should have gone to main entrance and from there she would be directed to appropiate department, but no, she went to infectology.

So this woman went to the infectology department with her daughter and oh god, they had to wait for my aunt for about half hour, cause my aunt was called to other department for consulting. When she finaly got to this women, EM was immediately snippy with her, showed her clear disrespect. Turned out, they knew what the daughter had, they just wanted some meds... "to ease the pain"

What she had? Worms in her a*s, that itched her. Enterobius vermicularis is the name if I am not mistaken. Supposedly the daughters a*s itched so badly, she couldn't sleep. When my aunt asked, why they couldn't come during the regular hours, because this was not case for urgent clinic, or ER, o whatever you want to call those night shifts, and because she would have to take sample for laboratory, which only worked during the day, they got all pissy and said, they couldn't come because the daughter had to work.

Work you ask? Yes work, the daughter and the patient of this story was a 30+ year old woman, with children or her own, who had to take her mother with her to the doctor, because of worms that itched in her a*s during the night.

They got pissed, and left.

But the story doesn't end there. The mother is some kind of journalist, or self proclaimed jurnalist, who only writes blogs, not sure. Aaaaaand she went ahead and wrote looooong rant about how "poorly" they were treated and how they had to go to the pharmacy and the pharmacist gave them some coal pills (I think, dont remember it anymore) and how our medical staff is bad.

I’m just going to talk about all my entitled patients. The second one was a man who claims he was a former icu nurse. He may have been the worst. The first five minutes into him being on the floor he was crying saying he was left in the dark. I’m like “sir the light is on.” 😭 I administered all the pain meds I could and he still found things to complain about saying “everyone just treats me like an a****t.” When I say I documented any and every interaction I had with him because I just could not trust him. Then I seen him do the same thing with another YT nurse so I’m like at least he isn’t racist lol.

Not a doctor but daughter of an er doctor, whenever my brother and I were sick when we were young my mom would just swipe her card in the door and wheel us back there to a room, always felt really bad about it.