What grinds your gears?

[Gaston de Foix]

People who don't smile or wave or say hi back to the toddler when she smiles, waves, and says hi.  

[Starkess]

People who listen to their music in public from a speaker. Times a hundred if it's on a hiking trail.

[Raja]

Have found that everyone is guilty of the gentle reminder nonsense, as opposed to it being a Gen Z thing.

Also, and this is limited to my profession, but people that turn up to Emergency departments in pain and haven't tried taking any paracetemol or any sort of pain killers ( I get it if you can't afford them, that would be a different matter)

Them: Ah yes, I've had this pain in my ankle/ headache/ choose your own body part here for days and haven't taken anything for it

Me: Well, what do you think the first thing I'm going to do is

Edited May 30 by Raja

[BigFatCoward]

1 hour ago, Raja said:

Also, and this is limited to my profession, but people that turn up to Emergency departments in pain and haven't tried taking any paracetemol or any sort of pain killers ( I get it if you can't afford them, that would be a different matter)

Me: Well, what do you think the first thing I'm going to do is - in my experience the first thing you lot do is prod it to make sure it really really hurts, a lot. 

You can get paracetamol and ibuprofen for about 50p a pack nowadays.  One of the things that grinds my gears is people who pay for the brand name stuff at £3-4 a pop, why would you do that?

Edited May 30 by BigFatCoward

[BigFatCoward]

7 hours ago, Starkess said:

People who listen to their music in public from a speaker. Times a hundred if it's on a hiking trail.

public transport is the worst, i wouldn't actually mind if its outdoors, you can get away from them. 

[Raja]

4 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said:

You can get paracetamol and ibuprofen for about 50p a pack nowadays. 

Yeah, I haven't seen the 3/4 pound one cause I just buy the cheap ones.

Saying that, Calpol is the most shoplifted item in the east london borough I live in.

Edited May 30 by Raja

[Heartofice]

4 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said:

public transport is the worst, i wouldn't actually mind if its outdoors, you can get away from them. 

I once told some kid to take his speakers down from the front of the bus cos nobody else wants to listen to his music

He said I don’t own the bus and he can do whatever the fuck he wants cos he has a free travel card 

Some kids in the UK are entitled pricks.  No doubt about it.

[Proudfeet]

2 hours ago, Raja said:

Have found that everyone is guilty of the gentle reminder nonsense, as opposed to it being a Gen Z thing.

Also, and this is limited to my profession, but people that turn up to Emergency departments in pain and haven't tried taking any paracetemol or any sort of pain killers ( I get it if you can't afford them, that would be a different matter)

Them: Ah yes, I've had this pain in my ankle/ headache/ choose your own body part here for days and haven't taken anything for it

Me: Well, what do you think the first thing I'm going to do is

Think the pain itself isn't the problem if they have already tolerated it for days. Its more the worry that it may be something more serious if the pain isn't going away. Maybe A&E isn't the right place for a diagnosis, but think its a catch all people turn to.

[Raja]

3 minutes ago, Proudfeet said:

 Its more the worry that it may be something more serious if the pain isn't going away.

That's what we're here for in A&E, but you can take some pain killers at home and I can still try and tell you what's wrong when you come to the department.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

1 hour ago, Raja said:

That's what we're here for in A&E, but you can take some pain killers at home and I can still try and tell you what's wrong when you come to the department.

“A&E” Assessment and Evaluation?

[BigFatCoward]

4 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

“A&E” Assessment and Evaluation?

accident and emergency

[baxus]

5 hours ago, Raja said:

Also, and this is limited to my profession, but people that turn up to Emergency departments in pain and haven't tried taking any paracetemol or any sort of pain killers ( I get it if you can't afford them, that would be a different matter)

Them: Ah yes, I've had this pain in my ankle/ headache/ choose your own body part here for days and haven't taken anything for it

Me: Well, what do you think the first thing I'm going to do is

On the other hand, people working in healthcare who assume I should have just taken some painkillers and act as if I came to their house to ask for help really grind my gears.

I've had a situation when I had an injury from training, and went to the doctor's and when I was filling out some paperwork after the exam, the nurse was acting like a bitch, which then triggered my response in asshole mode. The conversation went along the lines of:

"You came here because of that? You could've taken care of that yourself."
"Sure, I could've. But why would we need you then?"
"Excuse me?"
"Why would we need you if we treated ourselves? We could fire the lot of you, and rent out this for office space. You know, there's really not enough of it these days."

I really dislike taking any medication outside of what a doctor specifically says I should take. It's no "my body is a temple" thing or anything like that. Sure, I have taken something for the headache on occasion but all around me I see people popping painkillers and even antibiotics like candy without giving it a second thought.

[Maltaran]

4 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

“A&E” Assessment and Evaluation?

What you would call the ER

[Raja]

4 hours ago, baxus said:

On the other hand, people working in healthcare who assume I should have just taken some painkillers and act as if I came to their house to ask for help really grind my gears.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience with medical professionals, that is not uncommon.

4 hours ago, baxus said:

 have taken something for the headache on occasion

This is the point I was making

But you've projected this experience to what I've said. I never said pop painkillers or antibiotics like candy ( I mean, did I even mention the latter?), I said not trying simple analgesia like Paracetemol/ Ibuprofen whilst one is in pain because of an injury before coming to emergency departments is...not great*. Taking these medications for 1-2 days is not 'popping pills'.

*There are some instances where people can't take those drugs, especially if one's slightly older, but that isn't very common.

Edited May 30 by Raja

[Gaston de Foix]

 

 

[mnedel]

36 minutes ago, Raja said:

I'm sorry you had a bad experience with medical professionals, that is not uncommon.

This is the point I was making

But you've projected this experience to what I've said. I never said pop painkillers or antibiotics like candy ( I mean, did I even mention the latter?), I said not trying simple analgesia like Paracetemol/ Ibuprofen whilst one is in pain because of an injury before coming to emergency departments is...not great*. Taking these medications for 1-2 days is not 'popping pills'.

*There are some instances where people can't take those drugs, especially if one's slightly older, but that isn't very common.

My friend had a pain in his shoulder after workout. He assumed he just sprained something and wanted to take painkillers and call it a day. Fortunately, his wife convinced him to go sea a doctor, it was a heart attack. If he had taken painkillers for a couple of days, he would likely be dead now.

As for the expensive branded medicines, my father works in pharma industry for 30 years now. He told me to always buy the branded stuff. Cheap, generic medicines are usually made from cheap base chemicals produced in India and similar countries. These chemicals are not harmful, so they will pass controls, but the medicines produced using these materials can be as much as 50% less effective than the branded pills.

What really grinds my gears is people not turning off their (fossil fuel) cars when they park. I’ve seen people just leave the engine on in an empty car for 10 minutes because they are only running a short errand, or leave it on when parked to run air conditioning. I guess just stepping outside of the car is not enough for them and it wasn’t even that hot.

[Raja]

3 minutes ago, mnedel said:

 wanted to take painkillers and call it a day.

Didn't mention people should take painkillers and call it a day either

In fact, I stated people *should* come to the department so we can figure out what's wrong, that's what we are there for.

Edited May 30 by Raja

[mnedel]

13 minutes ago, Raja said:

Didn't mention people should take painkillers and call it a day either

In fact, I stated people *should* come to the department, that's what we are there for.

I might have misunderstood you. I thought you wrote that people should take painkillers a couple of days (for pain that is not too severe) and if it doesn’t help, then come to the Emergency department.

Edited May 30 by mnedel

[Raja]

1 minute ago, mnedel said:

I might have misunderstood you. I thought you wrote that people should take painkillers a couple of days (for pain that is not too severe) and if it doesn’t help, then come to Emergency department.

I may not have been clear in my posts. If people think they need to come to the emergency department, they should come for whatever illness they have, especially as differentiating something 'serious' from something that doesn't require intervention is a very difficult thing to do - however, they should try taking some painkillers and not leave themselves in pain for however long it takes them to get to the emergency department ( hours or days, as sometimes people will wait 1-2 days before coming)

[Raja]

10 hours ago, BigFatCoward said:

public transport is the worst, i wouldn't actually mind if its outdoors, you can get away from them. 

once legit changed train cars because of this