Reply To: Respect for elderly earned, not given

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emt
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I’m an EMT and everytime i walk into the convalescent homes i hear patients screaming for nurses and/or sounding their alarms but when the nurse comes into the room the elderly patients throws everything in their reach at them for not coming sooner then demanding water or food. another example is when i respond to a 911 call for an elderly sick person, but when we get there they demand we change their burnt out porch light and take out their trash, i can understand this since theyre to weak to do it themselves and have no one else to call but the attitude of the elderly person is always rotten and ungrateful. then there are the ones who actually have something wrong with them so we work them up then transport them to the hospital and the whole way they fuss up a storm about bumps in the road or anything im doing. OCCASIONALY there are the nice sweet ones who just want to talk to you the entire time because they are lonely and thats cool, i wish they were all like that. it would make my job alot easier

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Name : emt, City : Concord, State : CA, Country : United States,