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Annoying Patient

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71 feature instances
53 referencing feature instances

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Annoying Patient	label	Annoying Patient
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Annoying Patient	comment	A sick character (usually with the flu) is selflessly tended to by anotherâ€”unless, of course, the latter also caused the malady. The sick character will inevitably abuse the situation and be as demanding and obnoxious as possible. In a sitcom, this immediately occurs right after they're given a summoning bell. Sometimes the sick person may get more sick and make it a serious episode, but generally the one tending to them gets sick, and karmic payback kicks in. Another common variation is to have the sick character faking the illness in one way or another, or hiding the fact that they're quickly getting better because they don't want the pampering to end. After their abused caretaker discovers this, the tables are often turned, and by the end of the episode, the patient becomes the servant. Doctors as patients can be very annoying, particularly if they have already made an Informed Self-Diagnosis. Compare Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery and Ailment-Induced Cruelty. Contrast Nurse with Good Intentions.
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Annoying Patient / int_168d76f	comment	Mrs. Wilkins from Doctor at Large, who demands wind medicine that she doesn't need and gets her husband to threaten Dr. Sparrow with legal action:
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Annoying Patient / int_18acb3a5	comment	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air had Aunt Vivian become this to both her family and her sisters that came over to help while she was in the late stage of her pregnancy. All together now:
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Annoying Patient / int_1e945a7b	comment	Wendover from Doctor in Clover is rather a difficult man, constantly arguing with the hospital staff and complaining about his war wound:
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Annoying Patient / int_2170b9bf	comment	Becker: Dr. John Becker constantly suffered from Annoying Patients. After accidentally being shot, he was an Annoying Patient to his doctor at the hospital due to him constantly disagreeing with her diagnosis.
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Annoying Patient / int_2275c659	comment	House: Everyone's very sympathetic about House's brain cancer until it turns out he was faking it to get into an experimental drug trial. In something of a subversion of the trope, what House is annoying about is insisting that he doesn't want anyone's help or sympathy for his supposed illness; he didn't even want any of his associates to find out, and when they do, by accident, he's very annoyed. Played straight in the aptly named episode "The Jerk," where the patient is an insufferable teenage chess prodigy who has an almost supernatural ability to turn everybody against him (even his mother). The equally insufferable House is the only one who can stand him long enough to cure him, and in the end, even House hates the kid's guts.
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Annoying Patient / int_23465101	comment	On an episode of Wings the recurring character Carlton takes a fall down Helen's stairs, forcing her to take care of him with the threat of his "big lawyer son" who wants to sue. When Helen finally catches him dancing in front of the TV, he gives up the deception, and for good measure, brings the annoying to a head (typical for Carlton):
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Annoying Patient / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons Bart fakes a serious illness to get out of taking a test - while "recovering" his parents do everything from getting every variety of ice cream he desires to hauling the big screen TV upstairs so he can watch it. Lisa ends up sick and having to stay away from school for a few days, with Bart giving her a videogame to play to pass the time. She gets absorbed with playing the videogame, even when she is feeling well enough to go back to school, and asks Marge to get her some ice cream later. Marge immediately drives her to school.
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Annoying Patient / int_277975b4	comment	In a Miss Marple story, one set of characters is a pair of sisters, one of whom is a chronically ill Annoying Patient, and her long-suffering caretaker of a sister. It turns out that these are just false identities, though, as part of a large Nefarious Plot.
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Annoying Patient / int_27831967	comment	In the Parks and Recreation episode "Flu Season", April gets the flu and has to stay in the hospital, using the opportunity to give this treatment to Ann, who she's holding a grudge against for kissing her love interest Andy. Ann takes it all like a true professional until the very second her shift ends, at which point she shouts, "What the fuck is wrong with you?!" and calls April out on her pettiness.
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Annoying Patient / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: the Porky Pig cartoon "Patient Porky" features a screwball cat who is a patient at a hospital where he yanks the chain of the other patients. He poses as a doctor as he tends to Porky who is suffering from a tummy ache.
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Annoying Patient / int_2f203125	comment	Shin Megami Tensei: Akihiko Sanada makes a lousy patient after being injured at the beginning of Persona 3, due to his eagerness to return to fighting. As Mitsuru is the one looking after him, the main character only sees occasional hints of this when he expresses boredom and frustration, or schemes to rejoin the fight behind Mitsuru's back. Later in the game, however, the main character becomes ill following a minor event. Afterwards, Mitsuru specifically requests that s/he rest quietly until well again and NOT subject her to a repeat performance of what she went through with Akihiko, indicating she really had her hands full during that time. Late into the main story of Persona 4, Ryotaro Dojima winds up in the hospital after a car accident, but keeps sneaking out of his room because of doubts regarding his current case. As you can expect, the hospital staff are rather irked at this.
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Annoying Patient / int_35d98631	comment	In the Taz-Mania episode "Nursemaid Taz", Digeri Dingo fakes a broken leg so he can get Taz's family to wait on him. They soon start killing him with kindness, force-feeding him soup and piling pillows on him till he nearly goes insane.
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Annoying Patient / int_36142806	comment	In an episode of 227, Lester is this, irritating Mary so much that she finally storms out. Luckily, their daughter Brenda is there, because things take a darker turn—his symptoms worsen and she actually has to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital, because it turns out he had appendicitis, which can be fatal if not treated immediately.
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Annoying Patient / int_41c629e2	comment	Alluded to in Baby Blues, when Bunny is in labor with her twins. Her husband calls Daryl at one point, suggesting that he should give the nurse painkillers. A nurse can be seen leaving Bunny's room in the background, making strangling gestures and growling "Ooooh, that woman—!"
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Annoying Patient / int_43576f5	comment	The Supernatural fanfic Down to Agincourt has Dean struck by a nearly mortal illness, and when he's lucid he's an annoying patient of the "tries to do too much" variety. When he's delirious, though, he tries to exorcise, strangle, and/or stab his caregivers.
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Annoying Patient / int_4b882a66	comment	St. Elsewhere: Throughout Season Three, Mrs. Hufnagel manages to insult, belittle, annoy or offend every single prominent character, with the exception of Bobby Caldwell whom she charms.
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Annoying Patient / int_4ca7cf84	comment	In an episode of Matlock, Matlock himself is one of these, until his nurse gives him some medicine for a headache, leading to an epiphany, and a change of attitude towards the nurse.
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Annoying Patient / int_4e45b093	comment	Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory suffers from severe social ineptitude, as well as mild hypochondria, making him an absolutely awful person to have around when he becomes sick in one episode. Specifically, he continuously infuriates his neighbor, as his roommate and friends have long since learned to avoid him in this state.
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Annoying Patient / int_5562da6a	comment	3rd Rock from the Sun: In "Guilty as Dick", Dick Solomon does this after spraining his foot. Once his foot gets better, he starts faking it to keep the treatment going. His family and Mary wreak vengeance on him when they find out, injuring him much more in the process.
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Annoying Patient / int_55f41ce9	comment	Curb Your Enthusiasm: In the episode "Interior Decorator", chronic malcontent Larry David, throws a tantrum at his doctor's office over their waiting list policy, culminating in Larry tackling another patient. In a later episode "The Hot Towel", he manages to get his doctor's home number on the condition that he will only use it when it's absolutely necessary. He ends up calling it accidentally and tries to start a conversation with the annoyed doctor.
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Annoying Patient / int_58c15fb0	comment	In the Hurog series, Tisala is a mild case of this, going from unconscious to impatience and bad mood in quite a short time.
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Annoying Patient / int_5921531a	comment	Akihiko Sanada makes a lousy patient after being injured at the beginning of Persona 3, due to his eagerness to return to fighting. As Mitsuru is the one looking after him, the main character only sees occasional hints of this when he expresses boredom and frustration, or schemes to rejoin the fight behind Mitsuru's back. Later in the game, however, the main character becomes ill following a minor event. Afterwards, Mitsuru specifically requests that s/he rest quietly until well again and NOT subject her to a repeat performance of what she went through with Akihiko, indicating she really had her hands full during that time.
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Annoying Patient / int_5921531b	comment	Late into the main story of Persona 4, Ryotaro Dojima winds up in the hospital after a car accident, but keeps sneaking out of his room because of doubts regarding his current case. As you can expect, the hospital staff are rather irked at this.
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Annoying Patient / int_5dfc7572	comment	The Angry Beavers, "Fakin' It": Norbert feigns illness in order to get out of repairing the house, and Dagget works so hard catering to his brother's every whim that he gets sick for real... but in the end, it turns out that Dag had gotten wise and was also faking it.
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Annoying Patient / int_5ec3a015	comment	In the Adventures in Wonderland episode "The Hatter Who Came to Dinner," the Hatter becomes an annoying patient to the Queen and the White Rabbit after he hurts his back while trimming the Queen's hedges and has to stay at the palace until it's better.
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Annoying Patient / int_5ed778cd	comment	Twice Round the Daffodils: At first, Henry is rude to the nurses due to the fact he is being forced to move into Ward V after a year in his old ward: John is hard work at first too, refusing to admit he has tuberculosis just like the rest of the men:
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Annoying Patient / int_5fd94766	comment	In The Lucy Show, Vivian trips over a toy that Lucy's son Jerry had left out, and sprains her ankle. Taking full advantage of Lucy's remorse, she exaggerates her injury, stays in bed far longer than necessary, runs Lucy ragged with constant demands, and threatens to call her attorney every time Lucy hesitates.
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Annoying Patient / int_65012e2a	comment	In 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd, Justin breaks his leg and has to be taken care of by his parents. However, he's not the annoying patient; his sister, jealous of all the attention her little brother is getting, fakes a sprained ankle and makes her parents wait on her hand and foot. When Justin chooses to grit his teeth through the pain and bike through town to find Eddie, she actually tells their parents that he must be the faker. Her masquerade is destroyed a moment later when her mother accidentally(?) spills iced tea on her leg, causing her to jump up. By the end, Justin has made his leg worse by biking and has to be waited on again, this time by his sister as her punishment.
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Annoying Patient / int_6644f858	comment	Sherman's Lagoon: Sherman becomes one after undergoing hernia surgery. His petty requests get under the skin of everyone trying to help him.
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Annoying Patient / int_6ae1d164	comment	Zak Arranda shows some symptoms of this in Galaxy of Fear: The Planet Plague, when he's clearly falling ill but refuses to rest in bed... until the illness gets much worse and he's too weak to run around, which scares his sister Tash more than the prior behaviors had annoyed her.
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Annoying Patient / int_6ba20f54	comment	One episode of Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat has this. After his sprained paw heals, Dongwa feigns continued agony in order to get out of chores. His mother has him make up for it, though.
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Annoying Patient / int_74365738	comment	In Going Postal, Mr. Groat, a man who believes in a very strange type of All-Natural Snake Oil, has to be taken to the Lady Sybil Hospital after the Post Office fire and his being attacked by a banshee. He proceeds to become an Annoying Patient by refusing to actually let doctors and nurses interact with him, including protesting that he can't take a bath because soap "washes away your natural effluviences" and complaining that he had to receive a "trouserectomy." Also, his toupee was taken away but escaped from the cabinet on its own. While the nurses are fed up, Dr. Lawn views Mr. Groat as something of a scientific curiosity, but not so much that he won't allow him to leave.
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Annoying Patient / int_7884ec15	comment	Perhaps the quintessential example is Elaine Benes of Seinfeld, who is blacklisted by the American Medical Association. When in desperation she books an appointment with a vet, his office receives a call just moments before she sees him. The AMA sends over her medical records, including the blacklisting. The worst part is that she wasn't this, just branded as such because she didn't want to put on a hospital gown.
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Annoying Patient / int_85f0d3f0	comment	In Howl's Moving Castle, Howl is a terrible patient. Sophie ignores him, though Michael his apprentice does plenty of running around when he is in. There are no consequences for Howl.
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Annoying Patient / int_86b2e635	comment	My 600 Lb Life has had quite a few patients repeatedly fail to follow Dr. Now's instructions, lose little to no weight (if not gain weight), and offer some pitiful excuse when called out on it. Yet the worst example by far would most likely be Steven Assanti: Before contacting Dr. Now, he had been kicked out of a hospital near his home town for being severely hostile to the staff. Shortly after coming to Houston for Dr. Now's treatment, he was kicked out of another hospital for abusing the staff there as well, at one point spilling urine on the floor.
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Annoying Patient / int_8cf9e301	comment	One episode of The King of Queens had Carrie exaggerate her illness when Holly started bringing her food and realizing what a great cook she was. She took advantage of her, even asking her to bring food for Doug also.
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Annoying Patient / int_8d7c737c	comment	Amen. Both Ernie and Reuben were this whenever they became sick or injured. In particular, Thelma goes from hoping that the Florence Nightingale Effect will endear her to Reuben and finally make him propose to being so irritated that she practically throws him out when he recovers.
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Annoying Patient / int_8d81bb26	comment	On NCIS, Tony can get like this... when minorly and/or humorously injured. When seriously injured, he suddenly becomes stoic and all "I'm fine, just let me work."
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Annoying Patient / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk becomes even more irritating when ill.
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Annoying Patient / int_8f36f969	comment	Flip from The Loud House becomes this in the episode "House Flip" after Lori's reckless driving due to her siblings' misbehavior causes her to injure him. Risking losing their Vanzilla privileges indefinitely, the kids decide to take care of Flip until he recovers, and the latter threatened to get them in trouble after overhearing what was going on, at first, and the parents eventually do find out the moment he recovers, but Flip suggests they go easy on them after all the care they provided for him. Realizing they went overboard with their disciplining, the parents decide to only revoke the kids' Vanzilla privileges for a month, but as they return Flip to his store, they end up on the receiving end of this when they injure him again by backing into the same structure Lori backed into at the start of the episode.
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Annoying Patient / int_938e19ec	comment	Fraggle Rock: In "Pebble Pox Blues," while Boober and Wembley set out to gather medicinal ingredients for Gobo's pebble pox, Red acts as Gobo's nursemaid. He drives her crazy with his moaning and groaning and nonstop demands.
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Annoying Patient / int_94a7832d	comment	Top Cat: In the episode The Late T.C., Dibble overhears part of a conversation between Top Cat and a doctor and mistakenly believes Top Cat is dying. T.C. takes advantage of this to make Dibble bring him food, throw him parties, etc.
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Annoying Patient / int_994af351	comment	Phoenix is this to Iris in Through the Years when she nurses him from his cold, mostly because he thinks she's completely overreacting.
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Annoying Patient / int_9fe68540	comment	Today's Special: In "Help!" Muffy sprains her toe while playing baseball with Jeff and ends up taking advantage of his sense of guilt to make him wait on her.
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Annoying Patient / int_a0500a06	comment	Rugrats - Angelica fakes a broken leg, almost causing Aunt Didi and Uncle Stu to have a nervous breakdown. She even made Stu make her pudding at 4 in the morning. In the end, Angelica's mom Charlotte comes home with a real broken leg and is just as demanding to Angelica and her dad as Angelica was.
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Annoying Patient / int_a0ae8b12	comment	There was an episode of Steptoe and Son where Steptoe Snr was recovering from a bad back, making Harold do everything for him and constantly calling him lazy. He then discovers he is all better but fakes illness to continue Harold waiting on him hand and foot. He's eventually caught when Harold finds evidence of him making it downstairs. The payback is rather amusing.
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Annoying Patient / int_af95b79	comment	Seen serially from the doctor's perspective in Death Star. Uli is a surgeon, not an internal meds doctor but is forced to do routine checkups anyway, as there's only so much for a surgeon to do but a shortage of medical staff in general. A lot of the people he sees do not want to be there and are sarcastic and barely cooperative at him. Uli himself doesn't want to be there just in general - he signed on for one tour of duty in his late teens but has been hit with stop-loss orders and forced to serve the Empire for twenty years - and tends to find their complaining relatable and funny. Then he's ordered to tend the Princess Leia after she's tortured and is struck by her continued defiance and moral clarity, rapidly coming to admire her greatly until he's shaken from his defeated resignation.
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Annoying Patient / int_afeeacf6	comment	Chewbacca becomes this in The Force Awakens when he's injured by blasterfire. Finn, a defected stormtrooper who doesn't understand Shyriiwook, has to take care of him, which is easier said than done.
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Annoying Patient / int_bc848d30	comment	Squidward in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Can You Spare A Dime?" isn't sick, but had been living on the streets for an undisclosed amount of time after getting fired from The Krusty Krab. Even once SpongeBob nurses him back to health, Squidward continues to take advantage of his kindness instead of seeking a job, so SpongeBob is forced to beg for his old one back.
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Annoying Patient / int_c4282b71	comment	In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Discord is like this when he gets sick with Blue Flu in "Three's a Crowd". It turns out that he was faking it, but his shenanigans result in him getting sick for ''real''. He's more well-behaved the second time around.
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Annoying Patient / int_cb2e606f	comment	The entire premise of The Man Who Came to Dinner—famous and acerbically witty critic Sheridan Whiteside breaks his leg on a family's doorstep and proceeds to make their life hell. The very first thing heard in the play is him howling abuse at his nurse Miss Preen offstage. He later finds it advantageous to pretend he hasn't recovered yet. The current trope quote is Sheridan's nurse telling him off the moment she's had enough and exposing that she's been Maddened Into Misanthropy before storming off the house. The play ends with Sheridan breaking his leg on the doorstep again and being rushed back inside—and astoundingly, the first thing he says is "Miss Preen! Miss Preen! I want Miss Preen back!"
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Annoying Patient / int_d050b6dc	comment	In With a Bullet, the third book of the Shadow of the Templar webseries, Simon goes through a long and grueling recovery after being shot by a madman. Jeremy, tasked with looking after him, gets a great deal of verbal abuse heaped upon him, though it's less "Get me this and that, stat!" and more "I'm a man and I don't need to be babied, so fuck off!"
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Annoying Patient / int_d3452c26	comment	In Dolores Claiborne, Vera Donovan gradually devolves from a strong-minded businesswoman to a feeble helpless old lady through the novel. It doesn't help that she maliciously craps the bed in order to make life harder for Dolores, her carer.
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Annoying Patient / int_d46cc708	comment	Sarah, in the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Is There An Ed In the House?", becomes this, to a point where even Double D becomes justifiably furious of her bratty attitude towards him.
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Annoying Patient / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER trotted out a ton of these in its 15-year run. One of the best examples is from the first season, where a psychologist would deliberately ask the staff questions meant to irritate them. A fed-up Carol put him in a room with a recently injured boxer. Within minutes, the staff was treated to the sight and sound of the shrink getting his lights punched out.
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Annoying Patient / int_d7a3975d	comment	The Colonel in Carry On Nurse infuriates the nurses with his incessant demands on their time. Similar characters appear in the other medically-themed Carry On films, such as Frankie Howerd's character in Carry On Doctor.
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Annoying Patient / int_dbdb6fab	comment	12-Hour Shift: Mr. Kent keeps demanding to be seen despite being told over and over by Karen that as soon as a bed becomes available she will call him.
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Annoying Patient / int_dbf05cf0	comment	Doctor... Series: Mrs. Wilkins from Doctor at Large, who demands wind medicine that she doesn't need and gets her husband to threaten Dr. Sparrow with legal action: Wendover from Doctor in Clover is rather a difficult man, constantly arguing with the hospital staff and complaining about his war wound:
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Annoying Patient / int_dcdb5200	comment	Miranda (2009): Miranda's mother is this in one episode.
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Annoying Patient / int_de00af4b	comment	Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot: In one episode, Grumpy takes advantage of Wingnut's willingness to help when his foot is hurt, even faking it still being hurt after it heals. In another episode, Funshine got a case of Bubbles, and had to stay in bed for a whole day. In this case, he was an annoying patient because he kept getting out of bed to play outside, and his friends had to capture him each time to get him back inside. In the end, they all came down with it from chasing after him so much.
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Annoying Patient / int_dfb24eb9	comment	An episode of Strawberry Shortcake has one of the characters (a pony) break her leg and have to recover in the titular character's house. She suddenly started whining and making all kinds of unreasonable demands. But this was dismissed by the main character as being nothing more than boredom, even when the pony rejected all forms of entertainment. Eventually, she stopped being such a whiner and her leg got better.
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Annoying Patient / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Toyed with in the Pretty Cure fanfic The Season's My Reason; Rosemary constantly frets that he's being a burden to his caregivers while in the hospital, despite frequent reassurance that he's been very patient and cooperative. In Chapter 12, Nodoka quips that the only annoying thing he's done is constantly ask if he's being annoying, and that compared to giving Mepple a flu shot, giving Rosemary a checkup is a blessing.
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Annoying Patient / int_e4a4e2f	comment	Wimzie's House: In "Queen for a Day'', Wimzie comes down with the flu and drives everyone crazy blowing the moose-call horn her grandma gave her to use as a summoning bell.
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Annoying Patient / int_e5fd2cef	comment	A borderline case: in the Lensman series, when protagonist Kimball Kinnison is hospitalized, his desire to eat heartily and get back into action causes incredible friction with the hospital staff. One doctor comments that they actually like to see patients like this, as it indicates they'll likely recover completely. Later, he uses the incident as a way to cue his former nurse in on his presence in an enemy facility. Averted when Kinnison is hospitalized again, later, with a much worse condition. Part of the difference might be the simple fact that the first time, Kinnison knows that he was injured by being an idiot, and he's frustrated.
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Annoying Patient / int_e936047a	comment	In an episode of Hey Arnold!, Helga bosses Phoebe around just a bit too much, and Phoebe ends up being hit by a truck trying to do what Helga wanted, resulting in a broken leg. Helga feels horribly guilty and pledges to take care of her friend. Phoebe resists at first, but then she discovers that she enjoys being taken care of by Helga for once, instead of the other way around, and still fakes her broken leg after it healed, demanding more and more of Helga, who gladly does whatever Phoebe asks. Finally, Helga's put in the same situation that Phoebe is in the beginning, scrambling around to do her friend's bidding, and is also hit by a truck, suffering a broken leg. Phoebe feels terrible and they return to the status quo of Phoebe performing tasks for Helga.
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Annoying Patient / int_eeac804a	comment	In the Emergency! fic Taking Your Lumps Like a Man, John is stuck with Chet, who drives him nuts with jokes and TV shows. But in the end, Chet leaves and Brice comes in, making John start using Chet's tactics on Brice.
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Annoying Patient / int_f0a86c12	comment	In the How I Met Your Mother episode "How Lily Stole Christmas", Robin takes care of Barney when he has the flu. He complains about everything and acts like a spoiled child, and the plot culminates in this exchange:
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Annoying Patient / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: Frasier makes Daphne's life hell when she tends to him in "Frasier Crane's Day's Off." She gets her revenge when he becomes crazed from fever and medication and makes an ass of himself on the air. In another episode, Martin makes Daphne put off getting her flu shot. When she inevitably comes down with flu, she forces him to read romance novels to her. (After his initial horrified refusal, however, Martin gets hooked.) In another episode, Niles' wife Maris is admitted to the hospital for a cosmetic procedure, Niles is seen on the phone assuring her that the IV fluid is "low-calorie". He's later seen buying gifts for the hospital staff as an apology for having to deal with her. When one nurse tells him "I worked the night shift", he immediately hands her a second box with a nice watch.
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Annoying Patient / int_f90f1b9f	comment	In an episode of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Dale pretends to break his leg in order to sit around on his ass during a mission and get attention from Gadget. He's later found out and then breaks his leg for real, and now he hates sitting on his ass all day. Especially because now, he was missing a party.
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Annoying Patient / int_fe0af5c6	comment	Dr. Glassman becomes an example of this in season 2 of The Good Doctor, doing everything he can to antagonize Dr. Blaize (and, to a lesser extent, Shaun) during treatment for his brain cancer.
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Annoying Patient / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In one episode Deanna Troi loses her empathic powers, seemingly permanently, and takes it extremely badly. Despite being a qualified trauma counsellor in her own right who helps people through this sort of thing for a living she can't entirely stop herself taking it out on Dr Crusher. Justified somewhat by the fact that she has in effect suffered a very serious, life-changing injury equivalent to a regular human going blind or deaf, and that would mess with anybody. Trek captains have a tradition of giving their doctors a hard time because they're so eager to get back in action.
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