homophobic patient
not a nurse but a third year medical student here, (nurses are so nice so maybe yall could help!) so right now i'm in my surgical rotation and the other day my resident sent me down to the ER to do a consult for a male with right lower quadrant abdominal pain. So i get down there and introduce myself as a med student who would be doing his exam. He wasn't pleased because im gay (just listening to me talk you can tell) anyways i told him i would be palpating his abdomen and maybe even getting an ultrasound based on what i felt. Anyways i start palpating his abdomen and he started calling me homophobic slurs like the F one... and calling me snowflake and stuff of that nature. anyways he had abdominal guarding and wouldn't let me do anything anymore so i stopped for a second to give him some time to rest. He then got up from the gurney and got right in my face yelling homphobic slurs and even put his hands on me. i went back up to go to the surgery floor and told my resident. He said i needed to get over it i also told my attending and he said stop complaining. any advice what to do? also he's still in the hospital and they keep sending me to do his exams and things like that. any advice would be soooo appreciated!!!!
omg i didn't expect to get so many responces in such a short amout of time lol i was at lunch when i posted this!
Update from earlier today: my resident paged me and told me i needed to do another exam and do an abdominal ultrasound on his right lower quadrent (let me claify they don't let med students do ultrasounds without supervision and i even asked why a tech wasn't doing it and he said because i was the first to see him in the ED so he said i had to do it) because the guys pain was now an 8/10 (it was a 5/10 when i first did my history and exam on Wednesday) anyways I brought another person with me. Her name is lilly and shes another third year doing her OB rotation right now. (keep in mind shes asian this is important) anyways she was free and i asked if would come with me and help me with the ultrasound (im not to confident in my ultrasound skills haha) and as a witness if something happend. anyways we went to his room and introduced ourselves and stating we would be doing his exam and his ultrasound. He immedienty called me slurs again and this time he called lilly asian slurs and even told her to go back to china. (shes not even Chinese) anyways i finish up my exam while he's calling me all these names and slurs. i then let lilly do the ultrasound and i step to the front of the room and watch. and you know those big hard plasic water bottles we give people.. yeah he threw that at me and it hit me in my face and then lilly looked at me to see what happend because she didn't see then he pulls her by her hair and starts hitting her across the face. i called security and they put him in restrants. Im trying to be kind because i get people don't wanna be in the hospital in the first place and he was probably really stressed.
Update: i haven't been back in his room today and i don't plan to go back as long as he's a patient. me and her plan to go to the police later and file a report. they probably won't do much because assault on a healthcare worker is only a misdemenor in my state.
Update: so last night after we got off we filed police reports and they said they would look into it and get back with us. Now onto my resident and attending. When i went in this morning i met with the cheif of staff and the surgical department head and filed a complaint agaist my resident and attending and they are on temporary leave while they are investigating the matter. they are also investigating my resident more in depth because of the things he made me do even though i didn't feel safe.
also i see alot of people saying i should switch but i kinda can't because its required for me to graduate and also i'm afraid if i ask if i can switch they're going to grade my badly on my rotation evaluation and then that would mess my chances of getting into a good residency up