Hi Barbara,
I never thought you had intended to be disrespectful, and I have no doubt you would have a ***much*** better bedside manner than that intern did.
If I had been the intern's sister or date, or even if we had just met at a party, I would have sympathized with him and with his complaints. I would imagine that breaking bad news is indeed a miserable part of the job. But his complaining to a patient's mother (and not just a sentence or two -- he went on complaining for a few minutes) immediately after telling her devastating, life-altering news about her newborn, only child was absolutely the wrong place, wrong time, and wrong circumstances.
Be well,
Lynn
