Emergency Room Observation

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During a four hour visit to the emergency room this weekend, I was able to observe many different people. Since we had such a long wait, I was able to watch, listen, and record different people around the room. I never realized how informative a trip to the emergency room could be. Most of the people looked miserably sick or miserably worried which is what I expected; however, I was able to focus on a woman that accompanied her husband and his grandfather to the emergency room, and continued to observe her for about three hours because they ended up in the curtained room right next to ours.
This woman’s appearance was out of a magazine: she was dressed in expensive jeans, fashionable boots, chic scarf, beautiful sweater, ostentatious jewelry,
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24-44). While I did not have the option to ask her about herself, she described herself to the grandfather as friendly, outgoing, happy, relatable, and social amongst other things (Mrs. Stokely, personal communication, February 5, 2016). The grandfather, an unwitting informant, described her as a being many unsavory things, but the most profound was he found her to be fake every time he had to “suffer her company” (Stokely, personal communication, February 5, 2016). Her husband, another unwitting informant, continued the negative assessment with how inept she was as a woman or wife which gave me perspective across different situations not just in the emergency room (Mr. Stokely, personal communication, February 5, 2016). In my observation, she made sure to seek-attention, perform to those she felt were important, ignore people she felt insignificant, and generally act as if she was above others. If she had known I was observing her, she probably would have been irritated or have requested to be moved because I was beneath her perceived station in life. Had it not been for the “I-data” from her two male companions, I would have assumed this to be isolated to this setting; however, with their input I was able to ascertain some of these traits as consistent in many settings (Funder, 2016, pp. 29-35). As far as “L-data”, I was able to obtain a few bits: she is married, college educated, affluent, and orphaned at sixteen (Funder, 2016,

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