Overly Religious Parents Insist On Getting Access To Their Adult Daughter's Medical Records To Sl*t-Shame Her
Family dynamics can be complicated, especially when it comes to healthcare. As a healthcare professional, dealing with family members of patients can be challenging, and there are times when they can be overbearing and demanding. However, what happens when parents cross the line and think they are entitled to their adult daughter's medical records to help them sl*t-shame her?
In this particular case, the parents of an 18-year-old woman who was hospitalized with a pelvic infection were nothing but obnoxious. They demanded an extra bed in the room, were rude to the nurses, and generally made a scene whenever they were around.
Thankfully, their daughter had informed the healthcare team that she didn't want her parents to know anything about her condition unless she approved it. Check out the details of the story below:
If the story goes exactly as this title says, you are going to be disgusted with these parents.
OP, a doctor, shared the most difficult people to deal with in healthcare are family members of the patients.
OP understands this and tries to deal accordingly but the one experience she shared in today’s story was unlike any she had had before.
One time OP got a patient with a pelvic infection who had to stay at the hospital for treatment. She was a dream patient according to OP but her parents were exact opposite.
Every day when they would show up at the hospital, they would start bombarding nurses with all sorts of information and whatnot.
hey also demanded they get an extra bed in OP’s room for her mother so she could spend the nights comfortably.
OP’s parents would also behave rudely with the student nurse appointed for OP.
Please can we all scream “hypocrisy” at this moment?
Their daughter was well familiar with this terrible behavior of her parents so she requested OP to not share any medical details about her treatment with them.
Things were going smoothly until the patient’s mother googled what a pelvic infection was.
The mother refused to accept the diagnosis and called it wrong.
They demanded to see their daughter’s medical records to prove the doctors were lying…or maybe to sl*t shame their daughter if the diagnosis was correct. Who knows…
Great job, OP! That’s exactly how it should’ve been done.
However that was not the end of it as the next day the parents returned with legal documents that allowed them to see their daughter’s medical records.
Now this is a crime that the parents can be penalized for.
Are you guys reading this?
But as the doctor got close, the patient started screaming and yelling which allowed OP to interrupt and have them all escorted out of the hospital by the security.
They deserve to be punished for this.
No doubt about it, this post went viral faster than a sneeze in a crowded room, and boy, did it catch everyone's attention! Here are how Reddit users reacted:
As soon as OP gets out of the hospital, she needs to press charges against her parents.
This user suggested OP should disconnect from her parents and move somewhere else.
You have to agree with every single word of this comment. I mean...
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