Today at the hospital

[appleannie1]

at the sign in desk, there was a sign "This desk takes care of two departments. Just because someone comes in after you and gets called first does not mean they got taken ahead of you." It had never been there before. Two days ago I saw a sign somewhere else sort of on the same order. What in the heck is wrong with people nowadays? Whatever happened to manners and civil discourse? Is everyone looking for something to fight with someone about?

In the first place the X-ray department has about 15 different departments and the person doing stress tests might be ready for another patient before the department doing CT scans. There is no first come, first serve. If you are there for a mammogram and that department is busy, the first person called might be someone needing an MRI and that tech is ready for that person. And across the hall the desk also signs people there for physical therapy and everyone uses the same waiting area.

I hate to think what another 10 years will bring to this country at the rate we are becoming Neanderthals.

[mainer]

1. They think it's like a restaurant

And they don't want another table served first.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Rampant "it's all about me".

[Rebl2]

8. Remember the saying

the me generation? Guess it’s the me generation all grown up.🤷?♀️

[catrose]

3. A friend's son is an ER nurse. He says he gets assaulted at least once every shift.

He's about done with the medical field. He just took a job in a smaller town, so maybe things will be better there.

[appleannie1]

4. One of my daughters is a nurse.

She says the whole attitude has changed from what it was just a few years ago.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. The consequences of assaulting medical personnel should equal assaulting LEOs.

It's the only way this trend will be curtailed. It's not been paid much attention to before this because nurses were mostly only women after all.

[Runningdawg]

5. Psych nurses used to be the ones dodging punches. Now they need to be giving classes.

[Javaman]

6. we already are.

what we are witness to is a weaponized internet.

there have always been crazy people out there and probably at the same percentage that we are seeing today, maybe a little less, give or take.

but the controlling and limiting of hate speech has come a little to late.

because we now live in a self entitled society, that hate speech on the net has now crossed over to real life.

these morons who, are of limited thinking skills, think that real life is just like on the internet. they live in a vacuum of like minded morons out there in chatrooms forums, facebook, etc and become totally perplexed and offended when they are suddenly confronted with reality. a reality that not everyone thinks like they do.

and because they spew their bullshit to like minded people and have been brainwashed into thinking that's okay to do, they take it public.

they maybe stupid or may not be stupid, they may or may not be of limited means but the one thing all of them have in common is: they are all easily lead by bullshit.

[appleannie1]

7. I think a lot of it started when trump made it cool to be an ignorant ass

A lot of them thought that way but did not have the guts to act out their thoughts. He gave them permission. The internet through sites like Facebook and twitter was just his mic and he used it to his advantage. And now that the people in charge are being forced to dampen the fire, it is too late to put it completely out. The jackasses are out of the barn.

[Mr.Bill]

9. And in the ER,

if they bring in other people ahead of you, be happy because it means they don't think you are going to die soon.

[mrsadm]

10. That sign's been in my Doctor's office for years

Multiple doctors in one practice.

[Celerity]

11. 'we are becoming Neanderthals'

Homo sapiens are far more aggressive it would seem on balance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_extinction

In research published in Nature in 2014, an analysis of radiocarbon dates from forty Neanderthal sites from Spain to Russia found that the Neanderthals disappeared in Europe between 41,000 and 39,000 years ago with 95% probability. The study also found with the same probability that modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped in Europe for between 2,600 and 5,400 years. Modern humans reached Europe between 45,000 and 43,000 years ago.

Some authors have discussed the possibility that Neanderthal extinction was either precipitated or hastened by violent conflict with Homo sapiens. Violence in early hunter-gatherer societies usually occurred as a result of resource competition following natural disasters. It is therefore plausible to suggest that violence, including primitive warfare, would have transpired between the two human species.

[Xoan]

12. Apparently the previous lack of information was a problem for ...

those not gifted in mind reading.

[KentuckyWoman]

15. There were fisticuffs and police involved last month when I got my mammogram

Out in the parking lot a couple of linebacker types were squaring off over what I guess was the parking space. The lot at the medical place was PACKED. Even before Covid, my husband was ill and I'm not young ... it was getting testy at medical places. Well, everywhere really.

On the flip side, I've also seen a lot more of random people helping random people. Which I feel always was. It's the willingness to really go cockeyed in public that is disconcerting.

[hatrack]

16. I've been on the reverse side of this more than a few times . . . .

I'll be waiting in line at the grocery store and doing what I usually do - staring into space, contemplating man's place in a cruel and indifferent universe, counting blue cars, picking cat hair off my shirt, trying to remember where I parked, whatever, as I wait my turn.

When I get to the belt, the checker will say "Oh, thank you for being so patient!" and I'll say, "Would jumping up and down and screaming make things go faster?" and she'll grin and get me checked out. This sure doesn't make me super or special, but at least I can act like a freaking adult most of the time.

Does that merit thanks from retail workers? You wouldn't think so, but these days, who knows?

[appleannie1]

17. I have had the same.

Been thanked for acting like an adult. The first time a clerk thanked me, I was shocked because I was not acting any different than I have always acted. But then I have also seen people being extremely rude to people just doing their job recently so I guess acting like an adult is worthy of thanks these days.