don’t people understand? Two letters, middle alphabet location, relatively the same negative notation worldwide, what is the problem?
“Yes, I’d like to speak to a nurse, please”
“Sorry, can’t let you do that because you might die due to advice improperly given over the phone. You have to come in and talk to a nurse face to face.”
Here’s where there are a plethora of different possibilities that SOMEHOW manage to come up:
“How ’bout the Emergency Room, is there someone there?”
“Well, I NEED to talk to a nurse”
“My baby swallowed 3 bottles of pills…”
“I’ve got this strange rash…”
“Isn’t there ANYONE I can talk to?”
“How about a doctor?”
and the most insanely rare one of all:
“Ok, thank you, I’ll be right in.”
They’ll either try different departments(doesn’t work, we’re not completely insipid here(though some of us come close)), or they’ll try bargaining and say their life is on the line(then come in to the ER, you dolt!), or they’ll just start explaining their various bodily ailments to me(dumbest of all the possibilities, because I’m not a nurse, nor do I care).
Come on, folks. Think for yourself. If you are taking the time to ask a nurse whether or not you should come in, you DO NOT need care in the emergency room. If you feel it is serious enough you should just haul your sick ass in here and get seen. ’nuff said.
No means no, you sick sick people.