'Would you judge me?' | Employee branded 'unprofessional' for fainting at work

A worker claims they were branded ‘unprofessional’ after fainting at work. The employee, who works in healthcare, began feeling unwell during a conversation with a patient. They tried to excuse themselves but collapsed before leaving the room.

As if the unexpected health scare wasn’t enough, the worker was reprimanded by their boss, who arranged a meeting to “discuss how unprofessional it was” to faint in front of a patient during an appointment.

Recounting the incident on online forum Mumsnet, under the caption ‘Would you judge me? Was I unprofessional?’, the person wrote: "Would you consider this unprofessional and would you be annoyed at this? If you were in a healthcare appointment not whilst getting an invasive or risky treatment, and during the talking part of the appointment - whilst explaining things to a podiatrist, audiologist, optician, dietician and the healthcare professional fainted, would you complain or consider it unprofessional?

"And if you were the colleagues of the healthcare professional would you think that person should be embarrassed at all or would you judge them for it?