Today at work, while on my break I was sitting in the lobby reading a book. This man comes up to me and asks if I work there. First of all - can you not see the badge on my shirt? So I tell him yes and he says that he is looking for a patient. I directed him to the information desk where there is a phone that goes directly to the operator for questions when it is not staffed. He then tells me that he does not know the name of the patient. I am thinking - what a dumbass! So I explain that we can't help him find a patient if he doesn't know the name. He tells me that he thinks that his patient is in the cath lab. I tell him that we can't help him unless he knows the name of the patient, so he says that he's going to call someone and walk away.
Here's what I was thinking during this conversation. Why is this guy coming to visit someone if he doesn't know their name? Obviously you don't know each other very well. And does he really think that someone is going to let him traipse all over the hospital checking in rooms for someone?
The guy was still sitting in the lobby when I went back to work, so I don't think that he was having much luck finding his patient.
The moral of the story is: only come to the hospital to visit people you know and if you don't know them, you should at least know their name!!
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