You think this is a joke. Let me tell you it is NOT. I volunteered in our local hospital for over 28 years, and very often they asked ME to try to find out what was going on with them. Most nurses are overworked and don't have time to hunt up patients and tell them what the doctor ordered untill the GITs share their diagnoses. . But when someone is frantic and upset, they will go out of their ways to help if they can.