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This is just too funny not to share....
Okay soooo.....I'm laying in the hospital, in Intensive Care, in Critical Condition, waiting to hear if they're going to med-o-vac me down to Univ of Penn Hosp for surgery. Okay you got the picture.
Ring-a-lling, Ring-a-ling my phone rings in the room beside my bed. There's the Respiratory doctor standing over me with his stethoscope (? spelling) on my chest checking my breathing.
I worm my arm around his stethoscope and pick up the receiver of the phone, "Oh Hello Scott" (it's my boss).
Does he ask me how I'm doing? NOPE
Is he calling to show concern? NOPE - Guess again...lol.
Why do you think he's calling me? I'm already starting to laugh even though it wasn't funny back when it was happening.
Hel tells me that I need to call in a claim to file for the FMLA and STD (Family Medical Leave Act and Short Term Disability).
Then says to me, "It's all about Job Security Donna."
I should have said, "Oh really Scott, if I die, will it be all about Job Security then?" LOL
I wasn't laughing when this was happening and neither was the Respiratory doctor, but looking back now, it's a funny story because here's why........
I got this doctor checking my breathing, I got my boss on the phone telling me it's all about Job Security, I got my mother trying to find a pen and paper so I could write the toll free number down to call to file a claim and then I got the house doctor yelling at me to GET OFF THE PHONE...YOU ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION, what don't you understand about that?
I take the toll free number from my boss, thank him, and hang up the phone. All of a sudden the Respiratory doctor, still checking my breathing, gets finished, and yells out loud to the other doctors in the room, "CAN YOU BELIEVE HER BOSS JUST CALLED HER AND TOLD HER IT'S ALL ABOUT JOB SECURITY?"
He began to become very angry very quickly. Then the same doctor says out loud, "I SMELL A LAW-SUIT, how stupid is your boss? It's illegal to call someone in intensive care, in critical condition and tell them to file a claim, is he stupid or what? He was MAD.
Then after I got out of the hospital, my company's HR person calls me at home and says, "I wish these doctors wouldn't say things like that, they're not lawyers." I was like, "ahh liz, it doesn't take a lawyer to figure out you don't call someone who's been told, you may not make it, and tell them to file a claim, etc.,
Here's my question for you folks: Would you have gotten upset if your boss called you in ICU, in critical condition (when I say critical condition, I mean my liver was bleeding and they were giving me blood transfusions to fill me with blood since I was losing so much of it, but I was co-here-ant enough to talk and listen with my ears (my tongue and ears were working fine).
Would you have gotten upset and would you have told your boss, "I can't do this right now, I'm practically bleeding to death." or would you have done what I did, get a piece of paper from someone and write the number down AND call the claim center? Even the claim person said, "your boss should have called this in if you're in ICU."
I'm just curious to know what your reaction would have been to your boss.....






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I am trying to understand why you had a phone in your room, how the boss got thru, and why did you answer it if the Dr. was testing your lungs??
No, its not funny and if they try in any way to get rid of you and your job, you better file a claim and start a lawsuit!!
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i guess i'm still trying to get past 2 things:
1) how the hell did he get connected to the ICU....thought all phone calls were at the main nurses' station in ICU
2) why in the world would you reach around and answer it in the middle of being checked? ESPECIALLY in the health situation you were in.
other that that i am just glad you found the humor in it. you must be feeling better. i'm just glad you are ok.
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Last year I was not feeling well. I went to the doctor and had a blood test. The next day another doctor phoned me and told me (I am not sure if I am using the correct terms) my blood level was 64 and the average was 120 to 130. He wanted me to go the hospital right away to get a blood transfusion. I was so tired that I didn't want to and asked the doctor if there was anything else I could do and he told me to start taking two iron pills a day with orange juice, but if I passed out I would have to go to the hospital.
My point is I was so tired and drained that I know I wasn't thinking straight and that was probably the reason you answered the phone and did what he asked.
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I've dealt w/ employees being admitted to hospitals on an emergency basis and I would never have thought to call them in the way that your boss did (btw - it's not illegal - just in very poor taste).
I waited until things were stabilized then contacted them via mail. But almost always a family member calls my department inquiring about FMLA/STD, so that I don't have to make the call myself.
It is about job security (FMLA is) and STD gets the employee paid while they are out - so it's important that the employee apply for these as soon as possible. But to call an employee and talk about these things when they are in critical condition, is beyond tasteless.
And while the doctor was factually incorrect when telling you that it was illegal for your boss to call you - I don't think your HR person was right to comment on that. I would have just not said anything at all.
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Okay... where did my post go? I hate it when you answer a post and it disappears... where does it go, Norfolk??? I'll try again...
Well yeah, I'd be upset. How incredibly insensitive but how wonderful that you lived to laugh about it!
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I'm sure I wouldn't have answered the phone but, for the sake of argument, had I answered it I would have wanted to throw the phone against the wall once I heard why he was calling!
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This would be extremely funny if it wasn't so sad.. jeeze. You're BOSS calling you in ICU? No wonder your doctor was p****d! You're boss is an IDIOT!! who in they're right mind would make a call like this?
Is he afraid if you did die..that the company would be sued by your remaining relatives? How crude and insensitive on his part. I really will be glad when the new health bill is FINALLY PASSED and they stop jerking critically ill patients arround like puppets. My husband has this mantra.."It's all about the money." Everyone's trying to cover their collective A$$'s.
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