Here’s a tweet from Dr. Sanjay Gupta of the ED ready and waiting for the first patients from the mass shooting in San Bernadino. God bless all of you emergency responders and emergency department personnel. Absolute rock stars.
I’ve been working in this emergency department all day, your son has been here just as long. He’s 9 years old and he got in a fight with another little boy at school. You met the principal of the school only minutes after it happened, but when your son was taken by ambulance to our hospital you didn’t come with him.
As your son sat in a room alone all day watching Disney Channel we called and asked you to please come in and get him. You refused and hung up on us.
We tried calling you again. You told us to F*** off.
Later you sent your older daughter to come pick up your son. You daughter is also a minor. We cannot release your son to her.
After being called multiple times you came to the hospital, but refused to enter your sons room. The healthcare team sits down and talks to you. We suggest that he sees a counselor. You agree.
It takes the counselor two hours to come down. You’ve already left. The counselor doesn’t think he needs any inpatient care. Your son is ready to go home.
You are not here.
We call and you tell us that you’re too busy and just have him walk home.
We call social services and the police. Social services is overwhelmed and can’t do anything right now. My ten hour shift is over and as I peek in the room, your son is still sitting there alone.
I can picture what this boy will be like in a few short years. It will involve drugs and guns and who knows what else. His future scares me- and it’s your fault. People like you are why so many kids are so messed up.
You can call yourself whatever you like, but you do not get to call yourself his mother.
