Trash Talk At Sleep Study

It's not just techs who bad mouth WLS. I went in February to a Gastrointestinal doctor for the referral for the endoscopy, and told him I needed the endoscopy for WLS. He went on to tell me that he had a previous patient who had WLS and he regained all of his weight a few years later. I told him that I knew a woman who had WLS more than 10 years ago and she's still a size 0. 

I don't know why people go out of their way to tell us about WLS failures. 

Honestly, I would report the facility and the tech. It was unappropriate for him/her to offer their obviously uneducated opinion on that. They should have limited their questions to what pertain to the stufy and nothing else.

 Please report the tech. And report that cleaning person, too. There are plenty of people who want their jobs, people who will be professional and refrain from lying, speaking irresponsibly, and doing physical and/or psychological damage to patients. The only reason those fools got access to you is because they haven't been reported. If they don't get fired the first time, they'll either clean up their acts or get fired the next time they run their ignorant mouths.

If the manager or director of the center and hospital ward don't make it happen, go over their heads. Is your bariatric center or sleep clinic a Center of Excellence? Maybe not for long, if they retain those employees. Go all Charles Bronson on their asses. That's how change happens.

I am surprised at how upset some people are about this tech "chatting" to you. Do we really expect people we deal with in a medical setting to not talk to us at all - wouldn't we all be speculating then that medical techs don't talk to us because we're fat/having RNY/are wearing blue (or any other "imagined" slight) etc????

Maybe he was talking crap but was he rude to you personally? Did he make a remark about YOU not being a success or tell you not to have surgery? Was he idly chatting or imparting medical information pertaining to his position as a tech?

And yet here we are, giving advice for you to report him and get him to lose his job! Doesn't matter if he does his job properly, has 12 kids and an aging grandmother to support etc etc. He said something we didn't like and so he deserves to get fired???

When did we all get so intolerant of people expressing opinions we don't like? I have a lot of eyeroll moments - and I'm sure there's a ton of people reading this now and having one - but who would like to call my employer and tell them to fire me because I'm a miserable cow who thinks firing someone for giving a false statistic is overreacting somewhat ...? (I think he will agree about the miserable old cow bit and **** himself laughing at the firing me for my opinions bit LOL)

 Employees acting in a professional capacity are obligated to act professionally. If a sleep tech chats to you in the coffee shop and says a bunch of nonsense, that's him exercising free speech. You're free to ignore him, educate him, or tell him to shut up. If he gives you misinformation while he's caring for you, he's violating ethical, contractual, and professional boundaries. That's not okay.

So Flinstone pushing, pouch stretching with carbonation crap talking surgeons need to be fired ... or are they excused?

The surgeons are actually imparting advice that is factually incorrect whereas the Tech was imparting an incorrect anecdote ... Flinstone pushing could actually have serious health implications whereas the Tech's story is just a pile of baloney


Difference? Or should they all be reported and fired?

Lora

 If the tech's or cleaner's job included counseling patients about bariatric surgery, they would have received appropriate training. 

If you want your room cleaned, you need a room cleaner. If you want someone who can attach electrodes to your head and legs for a sleep study, you need a sleep clinic technician. If you want counseling about bariatric surgery, you need someone entirely different.

Find me one health care administrator or physician who approves of their nonmedical staff giving advice and opinions about medical issues.