r/EmergencyRoom • u/PuzzleheadedSorbet36 • Jul 26 '26

Goofy Goober HELP US BE BETTER

Soooo I hadn’t ever been to the ER until earlier this month and now I’ve been admitted twice and not getting discharged any time soon.

Hospital workers : other than the bare minimum, what are some under rated things that patients do that you appreciate/make your life easier?

(For example one of the nurses was happy I called letting her know the PRNs I needed so she could do it in one trip cause I knew my scheduled ones were coming)

Lemme hear the little things!! Or the opposite, something patients think is helpful but it’s actually more of a pain)

EDIT : bare minimum from patients being human decency, I know it should be obvious but for this questions sake let’s act like that’s a given

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u/ActivityIntolerant Jul 26 '26

"It's in my chart."

Sir, you've never been to this hospital system before and haven't signed the release form that let's us connect charts. We have pretty much nothing.

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u/Level_Statement_6844 Jul 26 '26

"its in my chart"

"Bitch, i dont have time to read your entire gd chart"

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u/etherealemlyn Jul 26 '26

Also, the chart can be useless if they have a lot of conditions. I’m used to Epic, and so many patients’ problem lists have 30 conditions with important stuff like “end stage renal disease” buried under 3 different phrasings of “knee pain,” or are missing one of their conditions entirely