Staff talks with patients

December 28, 2014

I have stopped asking staff people (there's more coughing while I write this) to talk to patients and tell them to stop harassing me.  When I was asking them to do that, I think their conversations were probably like this:

"Lena asked me to talk to you about your coughing around her."

"I'm sick.  I can't help coughing."

"I know.  It's ridiculous.  But we all have to get along here, so would you try?"

"Sure."

"Thanks."

That conversation, of course, is worse than no conversation at all.  

The patients who have been here for a while probably tell the new patients "It drives her crazy when you cough around her," and it's a fun game for everyone except me.

Copyright L. Kochman, December 28, 2014 @ 1:10 p.m.