We see this kind of thing in our ER all the time too. Lot’s of people call an ambulance because they can’t get a ride/afford a cab/whatever. There’s generally a strong sense of entitlement associated with these people. They typically expect us to feed them, wait on them hand and foot, load them up with dilaudid, and provide them with a free cab ride home and their complaints are rarely emergencies. As often as not, they’re looking for a fix and a script for percocets.
Plenty of stupid stuff comes through the front door too though. Some of them will come in 4-8 times per month. A little exploring reveals that they’re pulling the same crap at the other local hospitals too. This is their job, chasing narcotics at hospital ERs. Eventually, they get a dumb doctor who gives them their fix and writes them their script and it’s pay day. They are frequently white too btw.
[ Plenty of stupid stuff comes through the front door too though. Some of them will come in 4-8 times per month. A little exploring reveals that they’re pulling the same crap at the other local hospitals too. This is their job, chasing narcotics at hospital ERs. Eventually, they get a dumb doctor who gives them their fix and writes them their script and it’s pay day. They are frequently white too btw. ]
I blame the ambulance chasing lawyers that have made it so that if a hospital take steps against this they would get sued into the ground by those a-holes....
“There’s generally a strong sense of entitlement associated with these people. “
If only they got their repatriations so they could go back to college ...