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Get your stethoscope, make sure you have your smile on, and let's get ready for a review of "How not to piss off your Nurse" A Patient’s Guide to Appropriate Hospital Behavior" by Amy Thyst.
Opinion
Amy did not come to me for a review. This is my honest review because I happened to see her Twitter bio and thought “Huh, that’s a short story. Let’s check it out!” and I’m so glad I did. This is an honest review and my opinion, so thank you very much for understanding.
Let’s start with the positives. This is a short story, about thirteen pages long. This is a story from the perspective of a nurse who has been nursing for a long time, and no Amy didn’t tell me that. I figured it out on my own.
What I noticed is that Amy is writing this from a nurse’s Point of View, not hospital administration, not doctors, not anything like that. This is an intimate conversation spanned over 13 pages from someone who has been dealing with patients for a long time. This narrative fits I believe, any nurse in any country under any hospital rules and laws. This has NOTHING to do with patients’ rights.
Anyone who says “This book isn’t fair, it’s not patient focused on their bill of rights” needs to re-read the title. The entire point of this book is “How to not piss off your Nurse”. If anything, we as people should look at nurses, doctors and anyone in a servitude type of setting for our health and thank them for doing it. But to read this book, I must be the only one who thanks nurses for even looking at me. I had no idea people would ever stay on the phone while the nurse came in, and now I feel odd and more of a prude than ever before. But while it’s very true that we as patients need a bill of rights because we shouldn’t suffer, what we as patients also need not to do is to be cruel to people helping us. This book illustrates why it’s important to not take advantage of others in any capacity.
There are things that are told here, that I’m familiar with just because I’ve been to the hospital a few times. There are things here I can relate to, some I cannot, but most I can picture vividly in my mind. There is a bit in here about “Don’t bring your meds from home and take them here” and that’s more a cautionary tale than it is a rant. That’s very important. So important, hell I’m spoiling it here, don’t do it. My mother is on pain meds, that’d kill her if we let her take it while in the hospital, and I know that. I’ve watched enough CSI in order to know that.
Critiques? It is only thirteen pages. I would have loved more. I cannot tell you how much more, I just know I liked what I read and I wanted more. If she writes her biography, I want to hear the story about the helicopter mom who found out her precious darling was a dope fiend. I’m sure that story has to be there somewhere. This is by far one of the shortest of short stories and I enjoyed it. It’s well written, reads easily on Kindle and is fun.
Is this a satire in some sense? Yes, yes it is. And I’m reviewing it but it’s not a how-to book in the traditional sense of testing a theory to see if it stands such as a cookbook or landscaping book. I cannot test any of this, but I can laugh. This is hilarious if you have been to enough hospitals and been sick, or been with someone who is sick.
Score
It had a full story, it did have a beginning middle and ending for a pamphlet style book, and it was funny. I liked it. It’s a 96/100, which is a 5 Star Review on Goodreads and Amazon. If you need a laugh, and you are a nurse or have spent entirely too much time at hospitals, this should make you laugh.
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Mrs. Y
