When in Rome
Having been employed as an RN in Home Health Care, I found out early on......when asked by the patients in the outlying areas "where I lived" .... NOT to say The Villages. They immediately started complaining about how "we" came in here and changed everything they loved. The response was always the same, TV changed their laid-back lifestyle, bringing in all the restaurants, businesses, traffic, etc. I would ask why that was not considered a convenience, saving them having to drive miles for these things. The answer was again, always the same... if we wanted to live near the big city we would not have moved here. Most were really nasty once they found out you lived in TV. By the same token.... when seeing patients in TV, most of the HHC workers were treated rudely, as though they were doing us a favor, letting us into their homes. Once they found out you lived in TV... their demeanor changed and they treated you with a little respect. Throughout my 17 years working in the HHC field here in TV, it was a known fact in the agencies that the employees preferred a caseload outside TV due to the rudeness of the patients residing in TV. Quite a few of the employees refused to see patients living in TV. A sad statement.
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