My younger son is doing a pediatrics rotation for medical school. A patient of his is a 3-year-old girl recovering from being shot in the head when the pistol in her mother's purse went off after she placed it in the back seat of her car. The child has lost part of her brain as a result. No idea how much she will recover but she looks to survive this ordeal in some manner. For that I give thanks.
The parents, though. They blame the gun and the purse for the shooting while they constantly berate the hospital staff for not doing "enough" for their child. Hurts my soul this poor child would be reared by such "parents".
This whole post just really made me sad. The epidemic of staff-blaming, whether it's doctors, nurses, waitstaff, check-outs, etc., is just disgusting and speaks to other larger effects of entitlement by do-nothing dimwits who think they are entitled to yell at people, to question expertise, to break social norms, to run red lights, to irresponsibly own a gun, etc., but they have absolutely no conception about how to behave in a collective society, including raising a child.
