Entitled

Yesterday I spoke to a patient that wanted to make up his own rules. He wanted his son to come for treatment as soon as possible and did not want a consultation. That is not the way things are done and I explained that to him. His son would need to have a consultation and be diagnosed, a treatment plan would be made and then he could start therapy. The father kept insisting that he wanted to go the "non traditional" route and just start sessions immediately. I kept explaining that we do not work that way as we do not know his son's needs. He said he would tell us what the needs were. After a few minutes I could see that I was talking to a wall and said that I would pass the message on to my boss and she would decide what needed to be done. If we lived in a world of non tradition, I would like to walk into a bank with a dollar bill and ask for change. The only catch would be that I want ten 100 dollar bills instead of ten dimes.