you go to the doctor or anywhere and instead of just the person seeking help they have to bring all of the family and take all the space and chairs in the waiting room
2007-12-06 11:54:50 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I could never understand why they would want to bring people in where all the germs are anyway. I am always afraid to touch anything in the clinic for fear of bringing something home other than what I already came in there for.
2007-12-06 12:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
I do not understand this question.
but I do understand (ndnquah) answer and I give her a thumbs up.
Edit:
Okay, I do understand this question.
I just didn't really want to answer it because I knew that I will stand alone but since I already have two thumbs down I will go for broke...
IMHO,
I think you should be upset with the office staff and yourself.
A waiting room is for waiting and there should be enough chairs so people could wait comfortably.
The office staff saw that there were not enough seats, They should have brought more chairs out or taken the overflow to another room.
Why I feel that you should be upset with yourself is that if you needed to sit.
You should have asked someone,if they would be kind enough to give their seat to you.
Or ask the office staff to bring you a chair.
If that is not in your personality and you can not speak up for yourself.
Then you need to bring a friend or relative to speak up for you when you can not......
I am truefully sorry you had a bad exepirence.
Maybe you could call open the eyes of the office staff so this will not happen again at to you or anyone else....
I have know idea why that family had to bring the whole famly but the doctors office is not like going to the movies so I would just have to err on the idea that the family that took all the room had agood reson for being at the doctors with their love one. As my father always said if we were all a like what a boring world it would be........:) I hope tomorrow brings you joy ......If it was just to many people and I was getting nervous I would have told the staff I needed a more peaceful room!
2007-12-06 14:17:16 · answer #2 · answered by abuelamah 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
No, I work in a surgical waiting room as a volunteer. Some families bring 1 person to wait during the surgery, some bring none, and some bring 5 or more. It just depends on the tradition of the family. I notice some races tend to bring more, but this is no big deal. they care when their loved one is in a hurtful situation, and are there as support and encouragement. It makes my job harder, and they ask me a lot of questions, but all in all, I see it as love. I think, on my sad days, that no one would show up when I have an operation. And it really hurts when I go for examinations to see why I sleep all of the time (we think heart) that no one calls or asks how the exam went. My spouse and kids are on another planet, I guess. So, no, I see love all around, so they can even have my chair if they want it.
2007-12-06 13:07:50 · answer #3 · answered by dutchlady 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't really get upset, but I have recently been to an eye doctor's office, and he only had 8 chairs in the waiting room. All those were taken by 2 families. Maybe they were all getting their eyes checked, but I doubt it. Same way with the beauty shop. I got my hair cut over Thanksgiving break. There were 4 chairs, and 5 kids in them. If I go after work especially, I want to be able to sit down if I have to wait very long.
2007-12-07 01:07:28 · answer #4 · answered by Harley Lady 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well mister ed, I guess I am one of those people that you get a little upset with. I take care of my parents. When one needs to go to the doctor, I take both of them together even though it was for just one of them. Of course I am there as their driver. So for one patient (mom or dad) there is 3 of us there. So that means that 2 extra seats are taken when we are there. I guess I could start leaving the one at home that does not have the appointment and once we are at the doctors office waiting room, I could remain standing until they are called back. Then there would be the 2 seats empty for someone else to have. Sorry, I just never saw it from others view point.
2007-12-06 15:26:46 · answer #5 · answered by SapphireB 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If it's surgery, it's different, but in the ER, it gets a little frustrating when 5 or 6 family members (or friends) follow the patient into the triage room. There was hardly enough room in there for the nurse and patient. I had to ask them to wait in the waiting room. Only 2 at a time allowed to see the patient after triage anyway.
2007-12-07 23:50:31 · answer #6 · answered by Eyes 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it bothers me when i see healthy children and there's a lot of sick patients there with some kind of flu or virus and I'm thinking, man, those kids could catch something and end up going home sick. but it don't bother me to see that there's family members there to help the one that's there to be seen to be more at ease and relaxed cause maybe that person is scared and really need the most support he/she can get and having children around also take their mind off of, or at least alleviate the stress of their ailment
oh and about the seats; there are still quite a lot of respectful children out there that respect adults and the elderly and would gladly give their seat to them ( it gives them the excuse to sit on the floor which, it seems, a lot of little kids like to do or on a loved ones lap). and the staff should bring more chairs out or utilize another room for the overflow
2007-12-06 19:58:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's not just you. I've seen people brought into the ER for some minor injury and the entire family fills up the patients room and they are in the way of the doctors and nurses trying to do their job. Then in the waiting room there are all the young kids running around and, well, it just drives me crazy.
2007-12-06 17:20:14 · answer #8 · answered by noonecanne 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I suppose I'm in that situation so infrequently that I haven't formed a strong opinion on that. But on the occasions when I have experienced it, I figure being in a hospital is a low-level traumatic experience compounded by whatever condition brought you there in the first place. In that scenario having the support of family and friends alongside them has to be an enormous relief and comfort. So, I just grin and bear it.
2007-12-06 13:10:53 · answer #9 · answered by Captain S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know what your saying, it is even worse when they bring 3 or 4 small children too. Most children as so undiciplined these days, and the mother's will sit there and say nothing. There is a doctor in Ca he has a sign up in the waiting room to please leave the children at home. He treats only the older persons and doesn't feel his other patients should have to listen to them. You can understand one person with them to help or
provide moral support but like you I don't think they should bring the whole crew.
2007-12-06 13:03:31 · answer #10 · answered by WACVET75 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I went to see my lung doctor today, and the room was filled with people that had perfume on.There was no place to set down,I had my portable O2 pack on and had to go stand outside till the called me. Their were people there waiting with family members and would not offer to let me set down.My doctor said she would fix the problem, she even said she could smell the perfume in the back office.
One lady left the doctors office and 6 chairs became affable
I was not upset I was down right pissed off
2007-12-06 12:20:54 · answer #11 · answered by gggggg 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋