Memories and Unintentional Sexism

[beckyfeld]

On 9/11, I was working at an inpatient psych facility in Rockville, MD. I remember hearing about the planes crashing into the Towers and the Pentagon, as well as numerous rumors about other planes crashing into who-knows-what. I remember watching some of the coverage on the TV in the Adult unit. Needless to say, many of our patients were NOT

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[madfilkentist]

Sometimes you have to make allowances for panic. Large amounts of what people said on September 11, 2001 have to be discounted as temporary insanity.

[beckyfeld]

But panic doesn't explain why they had done this the week before when Aaron hurt his wrist, why they SKIPPED OVER Harold's contact information (since we'd listed him FIRST), and why they copped an attitude about my bouncing them back to Harold. There has been a real shift in the last decade in who the "primary contact" parent is, with many more fathers being actively involved in their children's care and it's time the daycare folks realize it. Temporary insanity or not, they had to have spent a significant amount of time tracking me down which could have been spent more productively tracking down the "proper" parent

[aunt_becca]

hi,
you don't know me, but I'm a good friend of Nomi and Michael. I've heard a lot about you. Anyway, I started a new job on an inpatient unit at a psych hospital on 9/10/01. Needless to say, PTSD and psychotic patients were in a complete panic and very highly agitated.
As far as this sexist response to contacting you...when people panic in emergency situations, they sometimes don't think clearly and revert to old habits. Annoying, yes. Hard habit to break.

[beckyfeld]

Welcome! Always glad to meet a friend of Nomi and Michael.

As I said in the previous response, that's what emergency planning is supposed to be about. And don't cop an attitude when the error is pointed out to you. We were all in something of a panic that day. That would not have excused my dispensing the wrong medication to a patient or sending the medication to the wrong patient.

[vettecat]

And of ours, too. ;-)

[pocketnaomi]

Oh good grief. :P

[vettecat]

Grmph indeed! I hope they've learned since then.