What was your goal of the conversation with the nurse in the first place? You need a doctor’s prescription for the insulin, so shouldn’t you have aimed for talking with the doctor? And if that was your goal, what purpose did it serve to tighten the screws on the nurse? You should have acted like a model patient and calmly requested you speak with the doctor
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My friend explains again that he does not have the time to see any doctor the next day, nor can one find a doctor on one day’s notice in reasonable fashion. And that he has already made an appointment, and needs insulin to live. And would like to speak with the doctor.
Then after being ignored several times, social media is brought up:
My friend says that if the doctor does not give him access to life saving medicine and instead leaves him to die, he will post about it on social media.
The nurse now decides, for the first time in the conversation, that my friend should perhaps talk to his doctor.
The nurse is not in any sense the victim, until the doctor threw them under the bus. They refused a refill of a prescription, and also refused access to the person with the authority to do so.
My friend explains again that he does not have the time to see any doctor the next day
He had the time to see a doctor. He didn’t have the time to see a doctor without disrupting his life, which isn’t the same thing as actually not having the time to see the doctor. And the fact that seeing a doctor disrupts his life is his own fault for delaying the appointment.
The doctor shouldn’t be required to alter his procedure just because doing so would alleviate the consequences of the patient’s own decisions.
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Then after being ignored several times, social media is brought up:
The nurse is not in any sense the victim, until the doctor threw them under the bus. They refused a refill of a prescription, and also refused access to the person with the authority to do so.
He had the time to see a doctor. He didn’t have the time to see a doctor without disrupting his life, which isn’t the same thing as actually not having the time to see the doctor. And the fact that seeing a doctor disrupts his life is his own fault for delaying the appointment.
The doctor shouldn’t be required to alter his procedure just because doing so would alleviate the consequences of the patient’s own decisions.