Medical staff should not treat a patient’s family as stupid or uneducated, it’s so freaking frustrating.
Telling me that my grandfather just has a “bad flu” when I can easily see bilateral basilar infiltrates on the CXR is nothing short of treating me like an idiot.
Also got into an argument about lab values (last time I checked a creatinine of 2mg/dl is elevetaed)
Urg I’m probably just overreacting but it’s hard not to be the family member from hell.
From a nurse’s perspective: I assume the patient/relative know nothing but at the same time i’ll ask them to explain...
i just love it when they treat me, as the patient, like an idiot. hellooo, i’m pretty sure i know more about my symptoms...
most of the time though, the family members ARE uneducated when it comes to medical things. and they’re often so...