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Am I the Jerk?

Karen tells Hospital that her life is More Valuable than my 3 Year Old’s Life

Am I the Jerk?

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

A Karen in the emergency room thinks that her life and her kids life is worth more than

0:05.2

my daughter's life who's only three years old and has pneumonia.

0:08.9

Whereas her kid is just in the emergency room because she's constipated.

0:13.0

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0:17.8

This is my encounter with entitled parents in the pediatric emergency room.

0:21.6

This happened yesterday. My three-year-old daughter was diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia and we

0:26.8

ended up in the emergency room because she was struggling to breathe.

0:29.7

pneumonia is very serious. She was put on a nebulizer in oxygen and given an IV for more meds while

0:35.5

we waited for a room to open up in the PICU. The emergency room was pretty full. The rooms are small

0:41.6

and you share them. There is a curtain that divides them. There are no doors. Just another curtain.

0:46.5

Around 4 p.m., a family arrives with mom, dad, and a five-year-old daughter.

0:50.7

The mom briefly looks in on my side of the room and could see my toddler laying in the bed

0:55.0

hooked to machines with an IV. It's obvious that this isn't a stubbed toe.

0:58.9

So I can't help but hear the parents explaining why their kid is in the emergency room.

1:03.3

Stomach pain. Meanwhile, the kid is asking for something to eat. She sounds quite perky.

1:08.1

The parent insisted that she has a kidney infection. Whatever, I don't know her history and I'm

1:12.5

not interested. So my daughter was given a steroid through her nebulizer to help her open her

1:16.8

airways. Her oxygen, which they wanted 90 or above, kept dipping down into the low 80s,

1:21.4

making an alarm sound. The nebulizer makes some noise and the side effect is hyperactivity,

1:25.6

so my extremely sick kid was medically wired as heck. Within 30 minutes of arriving,

1:30.0

the entitled parents call for a nurse and ask for a private room because their daughter

1:34.0

needs to rest somewhere quiet. Meanwhile, their daughter was blasting Ryan's toy reviews

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