AITA for telling my best friend's boyfriend at dinner he might be having a heart attack?
So my best friend Adaeze (33F) invited me to her boyfriend Marcus's birthday dinner last Saturday. Halfway through appetizers he's rubbing his left arm, sweaty, says his chest feels tight and heavy like someone's standing on it. I'm an ICU nurse, this is not small talk to me. I told the table flat out, in front of his parents, that those are classic MI symptoms and he needs to go to the ER right now, not finish his steak. He went. Turned out to be reflux and a pulled muscle from the gym. $3,400 ER bill, no insurance covering most of it since he's between jobs. Adaeze is furious, says I turned his birthday into an ambulance situation over indigestion and made her look crazy in front of his family, who apparently still bring it up as "the night Ronke diagnosed Marcus." I told her I'd rather he be annoyed and alive than dead and polite. She says I don't get to play doctor off the clock and I embarrassed everyone for nothing. We haven't really talked since, she left me on read after I sent her the AHA symptom list. Her sister thinks I overreacted, my coworkers think she's ungrateful.
This Case Is Closed
Sign In To See The Verdict