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Original poster

To have wanted to smack this woman in the face!!

36 replies

milliec · 12/12/2007 14:41

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BeeWiseMen · 12/12/2007 14:47

well if you're going to smack someone in the face then a doctor's surgery is one of the most considerate places to do it

i'm with you. a sick small baby gets priority because they can go from sick to very sick to dead frighteningly quickly.

Of course if the baby hadn't been waved straight in the same person would have been grumbling about the noise the baby was making. Some people are @rses.

nametaken · 12/12/2007 14:47

and if the baby had been seen last and left in reception area screaming she would no doubt have moaned about that too.

Mincepiedermama · 12/12/2007 14:50

Surely it's in everyone's interest that a screaming baby is shown through at the earliest convenience.

She must have been pretty stressed though eh? The shouty woman I mean. So you can console yourself with that thought.

And well done for only fantasising and not actually slapping her because I think it would have been a regrettable spectacle.

JinglyJangly · 12/12/2007 15:05

Don't mean to generalise here but I bet the woman complaining was old & visits the GP surgery at least once a week every week about something minor. I am sure some old people only visit their GP's for a chat or because they are bored .

A baby should of course have priority over a miserable old cow.

Original poster
milliec · 12/12/2007 15:13

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cherryredretrochick · 12/12/2007 15:31

People can be so incosiderate, of course babies should be seen first. I remember when I have been with v ill distressed babies that I have had to wait at all. thats just me being unreasonable. Doctors prioritise for very good reasons. PITA when you are not the priority but should feel glad that you are not ill enough to require urgent attention. at her.

Desiderata · 12/12/2007 15:35

Steady, jingly. You might be a miserable old cow yourself, one day

Most elderly people I know wouldn't think twice about letting a crying baby go first.

coby · 12/12/2007 15:43

Desiderata - I totally agree with you, most elderly people would understand fully the reason being, they are likely to have been parents themselves once.

This woman surely did not have any children of her own to not understand the need for the 10 week old to be seen ASAP.

handlemecarefully · 12/12/2007 15:45

Not at all unreasonable.

I would have said something utterly scathing to cause her toe curling mortification

geekymummy · 12/12/2007 15:45

some people ! When my mum had a fractured rib in a car accident (she was aged about 67 then) she readily said yes to the docs to treat a baby in A&E ahead of her!

geekymummy · 12/12/2007 15:47

the was meant to be @ the rudeness of the lady at the OP's doctor's reception

missorinoco · 12/12/2007 16:26

am still chuckling at "well if you're going to smack someone in the face then a doctor's surgery is one of the most considerate places to do it "

nice one.

missorinoco · 12/12/2007 16:27

and yanbu

OverMyDeadStuffedTurkey · 12/12/2007 16:30

yanbu.

MsSparklingXmasTree · 12/12/2007 16:47

When i was heavily pregnant with dd, i fell down the stairs and panicked because i couldn't feel the baby moving like i had been all day. We went to A&E as it was the evening to get a heartbeat and make sure everything was ok.

I could see everyone giving me dirty looks and grumbling because i went in straight away. A pregnant woman thinks she has lost her baby and people grumble!

beeper · 12/12/2007 19:42

My walk in centre has big notices that say that people will not been seen in the order that they arrive as different cirucumstances dictate how and when people are seen.

JingleBelgoHoHoHo · 12/12/2007 19:45

I remember rushing dd2 into the doctors around the corner when she lost conciousness. We got some very dirty looks and muffled nasty comments froma couple of people in the waiting room. Some people are selfish, and will always put themselves ahead of an ill child.

lazawreath · 12/12/2007 19:48

My dh used to work in a restaurant and a pregnant woman went into labour and her waters broke all over the floor. People complained that it had ruined their evening.

VVVExcitedAboutChristmasQV · 12/12/2007 19:51

YANBU!

frostythesnowmum · 12/12/2007 19:52

I work in a and e and we prioritise like this all the time - we have to. On some occassions when there is an extreme emergency and all the doctors are busy ( I mean literally resuscitating trauma victims, cot deaths etc.) I have had to explain to patients the reason for their extended wait and you would not believe how many sefish ungracious people there are.
A baby can die in minutes/hours from conditions that to an adult are a mere inconvienence it is essential that they are assessed immediately. If we are happy they don't need urgent attention sometimes they may rejoin the que.

VVVExcitedAboutChristmasQV · 12/12/2007 19:59

I have to say, I did loudly once, when I rushed in DD because she'd been given cows milk and she was allergic, and the old-ish man in front of us was seen first, who had strolled into A & E whose emergency was "I have bad back, it so bad I cant walk". When, clearly, he could

Janos · 12/12/2007 20:20

YANBU. Miserable cow.

Did she have a cats bum mouth as well? (Wish there was an amoticon for that...)

Mincepiedermama · 12/12/2007 20:21

Maybe she was in total agony and close to tears.

amytheearwaxbanisher · 12/12/2007 20:28

miserable sods poor wanting a sickly little ten week old to wait and if she had waited am sure they would have moaned about the noise

bogie · 12/12/2007 20:34

I agree with you this happened when our ds was 7 weeks old we got priority and we found out it was meningitis if we had waited around for hours it would have been to late