Fifty Proof Leads To Fifty Dollars
(A patient is getting ready for discharge and needs prescriptions. A bunch of us call and make sure we can find the cheapest prices in town. This is not an easy task, as there are quite a lot of them. While at the nurses’ station, I hear this exchange:)
Nurse: “Ma’am, this is your discharge paperwork. Here are the prescriptions your doctor talked to you about. We found them cheapest at [Pharmacy] for you; it should only run you about $50. Do you have any questions?”
Patient: “I can’t afford no $50.”
(Everyone looks dumbfounded, because her extremely expensive alcoholism is what brought her in in the first place.)
Nurse: “Well, that’s the cheapest they come, and if you don’t take them, you may end up back in the hospital.”
Patient: “That don’t matter; the government will pay for that.”
Nurse: “Still, it’s not good for your health.”
Patient: *now yelling at all the nurses present* “Y’all can’t all just pitch in and give me the $50?”
(She stayed at the nurses station for an hour until one of the nurses nearly wrote her a check out of annoyance. That poor woman. Eventually, security had to be called.)
Question of the Week
Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?