Wednesday, December 22, 2010

White People



Let me preface by reminding everyone I am Puerto Rican.

Yesterday at about 9 AM I had a very drunk African American Female come in after falling and bruising her ribs. I refused to give her narcotic pain meds since she was drunk, and of course she threw a fit.

As my nurse (who was an older very black woman), and myself (a tan Puerto Rican) were attempting to discharge her, the patient shouted "YOU WHITE PEOPLE ARE ALL THE SAME."

The nurse and I both looked at each other to make we we hadn't lost our natural colors, shared a laugh, and I replied "Ma'am, there isn't a white person in this room!"

Imagine being that drunk on a Tuesday morning.

-ER Doc

9 comments:

Smocha said...

I see the same drunk...ummm I am going to guess..some kind of indian (looks american indian to me) oh..I see the same drunk indian on the subway all over Copenhagen ,Denmark.

Who know's if he thinks I'm white :)

Crazed Nitwit said...

I am white and well, I don't give narcs out to those who don't need or just want them, no matter what their color. Jeesh.

NPO said...

I See White people...

Shash said...

Just funny. Nothing more than that. Thanks for sharing.

tracy said...

Ouch. Pretty sad.

Hal Apeno said...

Imagine being that drunk on a Tuesday morning.

Been there..

tracy said...

i love the photo!

Happy Christmas!

ERP said...

Well, maybe she was being Ironic since you were obviously ACTING like "White People".

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