I am sick. Sweat pours off me in rivulets. I cough up carmel colored bloody chunks. I manifest a temperature of 101. I am an fm station.

I dealt with a verbally abusive patient yesterday. In twenty four years of nursing I have experienced more verbal abuse in the nine months I have worked at the Center than in the previous twenty three years, three months. I am seriously contemplating quitting after yesterday's encounter. On Monday, the practice leader will be telling the abuser's Primary Care Provider that he needs to give the perpetrator thirty days to find a new practice. If the doc refuses, I will hand in my resignation. I will not work for a physician who condones that kind of verbal abuse of employees.

'Nuff said