The purpose of the article was to point out the “entitled” attitude American’s have about life in general and to bring light to the need for medical supplies in third world countries. We already donate hundreds of millions of dollars annually to other countries, therefore I don’t believe we need to donate more. I do however work in the ER, and can tell you that 90% of the patients we see don’t belong there and are unappreciative. If you’re in the emergency room, then you’d better have an emergency. That means you shouldn’t care if you have a tv, a meal, or a warm blanket. If your waiting, then you aren’t dying. People come into the ER thinking it’s a Holiday Inn. As a nurse I’m lucky if I get a 30 min lunch break, lucky if I get to pee during my shift, and all the while I get to listen to entitled patients complaining about having to wait 15 min for anything, all while being given narcotic pain meds that most of them don’t need but would bitch about if they didn’t have. You’d be surprised at how little the government actually pays a hospital for services rendered. Every PA and NP I work with just got their medical insurance cut completely, because Medicare/Medicaid doesn’t reiemburse enough to pay them. So maybe the public should be a little less entitled and a little more appreciative and see their damn doctor before going to the ER for a simple cold.

OMG, how do you handle a situation like that? It would be difficult for me not to lose my temper.

And God forbid you bring the wrong sandwich when you finally get around to it. ;)

It’s called satire. Look into it.

What was the point of this article? So you think we don’t know we have it better than the 3rd world? I don’t need to be reminded there are kids starving in Africa- my grandmother would remind me every time I ate dinner. To be blunt, I don’t care- not when I am in pain and need to see a doctor. I only need to see a doctor by the way because the government forces me to in order to get medicine that can help me. If government would remove that artificial barrier they created I wouldn’t have to worry about this and there wouldn’t be multi-hour waits to begin with.

What, no WiFi… Outrageous!