This is another true story. It happens everywhere in our country, where if your last name is McDonald you may have to ask permission to the junk food giant to use it. Leave it to our lawyers. They know how to protect their pockets with the big corporations. Anyway, that is not my story, but it relates to suing and protecting against suing. My story has to do with all the laws, rules and regulations that flood our daily lives. It has to do with the equally incomprehensible frivolous lawsuits. And it has to do with the fear of being sued, no matter how ridiculous the subject could be. This story is a consequence of what I have described before. It shows how the human being acts like a computer and strips "itself" of its conscience. It may not be a spectacular newsworthy story, as a matter of fact it is a common non-flashy insignificant one in the realm of things, like thousands of similar stories that never make it to the open. Here it is:
GOOD EVENING. I AM CALLING TO FIND OUT ABOUT MY FRIEND ROBERT LAMBERT. HE WAS OPERATED THIS AFTERNOON AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF HE IS OK.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PATIENT?
LAMBERT, L-A-M-B-E-R-T, ROBERT
HE IS IN THE RECOVERY ROOM
IS HE OK?
SORRY WE CAN'T DIVULGE ANY INFORMATION
I DID NOT ASK YOU TO DIVULGE ANTYTHING. ALL I WANT YOU TO TELL ME IF HE IS OK!
ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT HE IS IN THE RECOVERY ROOM
YES I HEARD THAT BEFORE AND I KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T DIVULGE ANY DETAILS. JUST PLEASE TELL ME IF HE IS OK AFTER THE OPERATION!
I ALREADY TOLD YOU I CAN'T DIVULGE ANYTHING
YOU CAN'T TELL ME IF HE IS OK?
HAVE A GOOD NIGHT SIR.
Phone hanging after the word "Sir'
Note: All names have been changed or avoided to protect this writer from a frivolous lawsuit.(hey, you'll never know!)
GOOD EVENING. I AM CALLING TO FIND OUT ABOUT MY FRIEND ROBERT LAMBERT. HE WAS OPERATED THIS AFTERNOON AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF HE IS OK.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PATIENT?
LAMBERT, L-A-M-B-E-R-T, ROBERT
HE IS IN THE RECOVERY ROOM
IS HE OK?
SORRY WE CAN'T DIVULGE ANY INFORMATION
I DID NOT ASK YOU TO DIVULGE ANTYTHING. ALL I WANT YOU TO TELL ME IF HE IS OK!
ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT HE IS IN THE RECOVERY ROOM
YES I HEARD THAT BEFORE AND I KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T DIVULGE ANY DETAILS. JUST PLEASE TELL ME IF HE IS OK AFTER THE OPERATION!
I ALREADY TOLD YOU I CAN'T DIVULGE ANYTHING
YOU CAN'T TELL ME IF HE IS OK?
HAVE A GOOD NIGHT SIR.
Phone hanging after the word "Sir'
Note: All names have been changed or avoided to protect this writer from a frivolous lawsuit.(hey, you'll never know!)
3 comments:
Perhaps if the caller had asked if he were alive, then that could have been definitively answered. However, if the answer were yes, the nurse could have conveyed what the caller said to the patient....and the patient could have sued the caller for being sarcastic during a time of need.
There used to be a time when common sense prevailed, and where $65 million dollar lawsuits over pant steaming delays would never have been thought of. But we long past that phase of social depravity. No, now we not only think we can sue anyone, and for anything, but the ambulance-chasing lawyers are actually winning ridiculous lawsuits for their clients. This gives the wrong message to the rest of us, who try to retain themselves to the human race, despite the "capitalists" who choose otherwise.
Ahh, what the hell. I'm going to sue you too.
See?
Nasty world we live in.
((By the way, I was only joking about suing you. Please don't sue me for having scared you. Thank you.))
Nice photo dude! Who were you talking to anyway??? (LOL)
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