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

[milliec]

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baby definnetly gets prioty. When I took my 5 year old to emergency docs a very nice man who looked really ill allowed us to go before him. Some people will just complain about eveything. We have a patient at work who complains about everything, we used to take it personally until one day one of my colleagues saw her in tescos complaining, by the look on the staff faces it was obviously she was a regular complainer there too

Yes she should have priority. When we go to A&E with Ds2 and ds3 (not that often!) they wait like everyone else. When we go with ds1 he doesn't wait at all - last time he was called through before we'd even given his name. Why? Because he's severely autistic. Of course people can jump queues. Or are we going to leave the guy with the heart attack to be seen aftedr the person with the ingrown toenail. People like the moaner best ignored....

Of course small kids should go first, maybe the woman was panicing over the state of who she was with and desperate to have him seen, this can make people act unreasonably.
But yanbu. babes first.

at how rude and selfish some people can be! It's really worrying when a child gets ill, especially a baby as they can't tell you whats wrong with them. It's understandable that babies get priority because as BWM and frosty said, a baby can go from extremely ill to dead in a short time.

YANBU.

Our doctor's surgery used to be clogged up with old dears and codgers treating it as a social club. Then they built a new surgery on the edge of the small town, to huge protests from the local Decrepit Wrinklies Association.

Result! The oldies can't make it to the new place nearly as easily as the old one, so they only go if they are actually ill. It's far easier to get an appointment and the waiting room doesn't smell as bad.

On the other hand, the queues at the Post Office are huge ("And this is a parcel to my granddaughter in New Zealand ... here's a photograph of her ... the price of fish these days ..."). And it pongs a bit.

I know somebody who's 8 week old baby went from being fine to needing a life suuport machine in a couple of hours. 24 hours later he was dead.

Every second counts with sick babies. That women would have recieved a right mouthful from me!

So what?

THing is, you don't know the woman's circumstances. Yes of course the surgery were right to prioritise a sick baby, but maybe her partner/father/brother with the nosebleed was visiting with the nosebleed because he had some kind of fairly serious condition (haemophilia/leukemia) or they were worried that it was a sign of something major being wrong - even if they were mistaken, they might still have been worried sick, which can make a person a bit selfish.