The Coppersmith Farmhouse (Jamison Valley Book 1) by Devney Perry

Author:Devney Perry [Perry, Devney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-08T23:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

“I don’t care what you are seeing on that thing. It’s wrong,” my patient yelled. He was pointing at my iPad and before I could respond, he muttered, “Idiot.”

“I’m sorry, Mr. Johnson,” I said. “I wasn’t here when you got your medications but from what your chart says, I can’t give you any more right now. It could be dangerous to your liver if you take too many pain medications in such a short period of time.”

His chart indicated he had already received more than enough oxycodone for his back pain. I didn’t know why it hadn’t kicked in yet but giving him more wasn’t an option until I talked to a doctor.

“Find someone else. You’re too dumb to figure it out. Where’s Ida? Bring her back.”

I inhaled a long breath and tried to keep my cool. I wasn’t a big fan of someone calling me an idiot or dumb.

“Let me check with Dr. Carlson about your medications, okay?”

Mr. Johnson had come into the ER this afternoon complaining of back pain so fierce it was making him nauseous. He’d come in while I was on my lunch break so Ida had admitted him and given him the oxy per Everett’s order.

“Fine. Get your ass outta here and check with the doctor, bitch. I don’t care what you see on that damn thing. Nothing you people have given me is helping.”

I was done. I was going to let the other affronts go, but this last insult was one too many.

“Stop. I’m sorry you’re in pain, Mr. Johnson. But being rude to me isn’t going to help. You will treat me with some respect. Enough name calling and yelling,” I said, using my mom voice.

He huffed but didn’t say anything in response.

“Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go and find Dr. Carlson.”

I stomped immediately to the nurses' desk, where I closed my eyes and tried to relax my hands, which were balled into tight fists.

“Gigi? Are you okay?”

“Great,” I deadpanned, turning to see Everett. “I was actually coming to find you but I needed a minute.”

“Is everything okay?”

“Yeah.” I let out a loud breath and sagged my shoulders. “Mr. Johnson is in ER room three. He’s spent the last ten minutes yelling at me because he is still in pain and I wouldn’t give him more oxycodone. His chart said he’d gotten the max dose about an hour ago. So I told him I’d come talk to you and see if there was something else we could do.”

“Strange. The dose should be kicking in by now,” he said. “But let me go in and talk with him. See what kind of symptoms he’s having.”

“Sounds good. Let’s go.”

“Oh, I can handle it if you’d like, Gigi. If he’s been rude or inappropriate, you don’t need to deal with him again.”

“That’s nice of you to offer, Everett. But I want to be in there so that if there is a follow-up order, I can take care of it. And I don’t want him to think he can intimidate me.

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