I'm not a saint or a hero at all!
I was seething with rage. As much as I would love to beat him about the head with his own ripped off leg, I don't want the trouble of being charged in court for assault. Unfortunately in the States, medically speaking, uttering threatening things is assault and then doing them is battery. He would have had me in court so fast my head would spin.
Thank you-these replies have made me lol and cheered me up no end. Every nurse in the world has to put up with crap like this; comes with the territory.

This job will end soon and I can't wait to go back to delivering babies or taking care of people who are dying, thank God. Ooh, that didn't come out right, did it?
BTW he was in a wheelchair on government assistance because he had crashed a variety of vehicles (planes, boats, cars) not once or twice, but 5 times until he finally made himself into a paraplegic.

My contract is up the 28th and I can tough it out til then. And sometimes I have absolutely delightful patients that I just fall in love with like my elderly Air Force vet who was stationed in England. He's told me many stories about bombing runs over Germany and all the brave RAF guys he knew. He hasn't been there since 1945, but he recalls England with the greatest of pleasure!

But thank you all from the bottom of my fat little heart-vindication is one of the sweetest pleasures known to man or nurse!
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Tue 9 Sep 2008, 4:50, Reply)