Better than a kick in the teeth...

I will have some more interesting things to post in the future, as soon as I get some time, but I do need to share this story, even though it didn't happen to me.
So the other day in the clinic, the unfortunate doc who was on got struck by a pretty bad stomach flu, so was running back and forth from the bathroom between seeing patients. She, of course, could not go home and leave the clinic unmanned, for, heaven forbid that a doctor be allowed to be sick and go home from the office early. She was trying her best to keep up with the onslaught without getting into big trouble with her bowels.
One patient comes in, and, because she had been waiting a whole (gasp!) twenty minutes to be seen by the doctor, starts making a ruckus with the secretaries. She complains how if she was in a life and death situation, then the clinic would be in biiiiig trouble for making her wait so long to see a doctor. It's explained to her that the doctor's gone to the bathroom, and, frankly, if it was a life or death situation, she'd be far better off in the local emergency department, for, in a small clinic, if you're in a life or death situation, death will surely win. She then states, bald-faced to the doctor, "How dare you go to the bathroom? You guys are not allowed to go to the bathroom when you're on shift!".
Personally, I would've punched her in the face, or at the very least, refused to see her, especially under the circumstances. However, our good doctor did not, and asked how she could help this jerk. Well, her so-called life and death situation was that she needed a new requisition to go for a test, for she had had her previous one eaten by her dog. That, my friends, is the self-centredness and idiocy that makes up the Canadian public, I'm afraid...