Beauty

[7Lady7Luck7]

Sorry this happened to you. You didn't deserve it, and if I were you I'd find another Dr.'s office....stat! Seriously, professionalism in the front of the house is indicative of professionalism in the back of the house. Hope all is well.

[jpie]

Annabellethecat, I am so sorry you had to go through all of this unnecessary stress. If the attendant in the doctor's office didn't get fired, she certainly needed a "job target."

I am glad to hear that you spoke up for yourself.

Best wishes for you and your daughter's health!

[SusyQ22a]

On 4/12/2014 7Lady7Luck7 said:

Sorry this happened to you. You didn't deserve it, and if I were you I'd find another Dr.'s office....stat! Seriously, professionalism in the front of the house is indicative of professionalism in the back of the house. Hope all is well.

Very true. The front of the house is where a client, patient , customer gets their first impression. I'm a boss and own my interior design business and you can bet if any of my staff treated someone this way they would definitely hear about it from me. They would either be written up with a warning that it not happen again or they would be teminted, or terminated. It doesn't matter if this person in the original post had a bad day or not. You don't bring your problems to work with you. Also, I agree, that if the smell bothered her the professional thing to do would be to ask a colleague to take care of the patient.... not make a big deal about the smell.

[Margo Channing]

Annabelle: I'm sorry that happened to you. I'd like to share my story with you, maybe it will help. I'm not going into specifics, but I was, let me say, "mishandled" by a medical professional and I went to his immediate supervisor. Nothing happened. I was in the ER.

I was going to write it off until someone told me to complain to my insurance company with all the information I had--first a phone call, then a follow up letter. I thought that would be the end of it but about three weeks later the HEAD OF EMERGENCY SERVICES called me {I think she smelled a lawsuit} and asked my how she could "make me happy" I told her I wanted him FIRED, not allowed to resign and a letter in his permanent file. Two weeks later I got said letter and a physician friend of mine made a few calls to see if my offender was really fired. He was.

I would put it in writing and sent a letter to your doctor. Sometimes the written word can be very powerful.

hoping you have a wonderful week end.

[SusyQ22a]

Wow that's all I can say about that last post. First you don't want to do anything at all then you decide they should be fired and not allowed to resign and then follow up to see if it happened and ask another physician to make sure it happened? Why would they ask the person complaining what they should do? If someone suggested what I should do with an employee I would assure them nicely that I will handle it and then do so.

[StuffnSuch]

On 4/12/2014 icezeus said:

I am sorry. I opened this to read it and closed it again. This is way to long.

Well, if it bothered you to read through it, you were right to close it. Too bad you felt you had to comment about it.

[pistolino]

I'm sorry you had this experience.

I'm assuming these people were of the young-ish variety (30 and under) because I find them EXTREMELY rude and I've come to the conclusion that it's because something changed in parenting styles and homes became focused on the child and not the adults.

The children were catered to, the adults lived on the child's schedule and ferried children here and there, asked their opinions on adult things, etc.

When that happens, children get an inflated ego and this carries into adulthood, where they feel free to voice displeasure very loudly and rudely about things they need to shut up about.

When children know their place in the home (not as leaders or decision-makers), they have far more self-control and know how to express appropriate thoughts in appropriate ways. When they are front and center and the world revolves around them, they become insufferable and unpleasant to be around.

To any parent who wants to flame me, if you're raising your child to "express herself" whenever she pleases, you are doing your child and the world a disservice--you're producing a really unpleasant member of society. The old saying "children should be seen and not heard" is good advice. I have no problem telling someone's child they will NOT be using my first name to address me and they will NOT interrupt conversations adults are having.

[pistolino]

On 4/12/2014 StuffyBug said:

On 4/12/2014 icezeus said:

I am sorry. I opened this to read it and closed it again. This is way to long.

Well, if it bothered you to read through it, you were right to close it. Too bad you felt you had to comment about it.

Probably one of the younger set, they can't read more than a short paragraph at a time and definitely not if it's typed in real English and not text-speak.

[GinaV24]

I'm so sorry that you had to have someone be so rude under what was already an upsetting time. IMO there is no reason or excuse for that kind of unprofessional behavior and I hope the doctor did take some sort of action so it doesn't happen again.

I just read all the way through and realized you had answered the question about your thyroid. I wish you the best with the surgery & any treatment that is necessary and of course that your daughter's surgery goes well.

[just bee]

On 4/12/2014 pistolino said:

I'm sorry you had this experience.

I'm assuming these people were of the young-ish variety (30 and under) because I find them EXTREMELY rude and I've come to the conclusion that it's because something changed in parenting styles and homes became focused on the child and not the adults.

The children were catered to, the adults lived on the child's schedule and ferried children here and there, asked their opinions on adult things, etc.

When that happens, children get an inflated ego and this carries into adulthood, where they feel free to voice displeasure very loudly and rudely about things they need to shut up about.

When children know their place in the home (not as leaders or decision-makers), they have far more self-control and know how to express appropriate thoughts in appropriate ways. When they are front and center and the world revolves around them, they become insufferable and unpleasant to be around.

To any parent who wants to flame me, if you're raising your child to "express herself" whenever she pleases, you are doing your child and the world a disservice--you're producing a really unpleasant member of society. The old saying "children should be seen and not heard" is good advice. I have no problem telling someone's child they will NOT be using my first name to address me and they will NOT interrupt conversations adults are having.

Pistolino, did you have an Italian mother, too?