This just sickens me to no end.
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Imagine if this was your mother.

with warm regards,
Tony

I saw that on TV a few days ago.  They showed not only this poor woman, but a couple of others who died in hospital waiting rooms.  Since I have no "sound" on this computer, I couldn't hear the video, but I believe this woman had been sitting in the waiting room (which appears pretty empty to me) for over 24 hours without being seen or treated. 

A couple of years ago, my closest friend's husband had been in a car wreck.  He was transported to the hospital by EMS.  She called me and I drove her to the hospital.  She went in to the  emergency room with him, while I waited in the emergency waiting room.  There was a man and his wife who were there before I was, and I could tell she was in extreme distress, unable to breathe and in a lot of pain.  I sat there for a good two hours, and she had still not been seen, and was becoming more desperate.  The husband walked over to the nurse's station and loudly said "she needs help here!  She has chest pains, difficulty breathing and it's getting worse.  We've been here three hours!  What are you going to do about it?". 

Know what happened?  A "rent-a-cop" security guard came over to the man, grabbed him by the arm and told him to sit back down and that the hospital would get to his wife when they could. 

The good news, if you can call it that after a three hour wait, was that another nurse overheard the whole thing, went over to the wife sitting in the waiting room, took one look, and immediately called for "stat" help and they took her in to triage.

My friend's husband, transported by ambulance with minor injuries, was immediately seen.  This poor woman, with possibly fatal heart problems, driven in by her husband, sat for three hours, and, based on the nurse's reaction when she looked at the woman, could have died sitting right there.

Lesson - If something is seriously wrong and you need to go to a hospital - dial 911 and have them transport you in.  Never come in any other way because you will just go on the waiting list and will not be seen quickly.

Our hospital emergency rooms are a complete and total disaster.  This video and the others shown on TV are proof.

Sandy

I had my mom in ER one night and we'd been there for several hours. I asked a nurse how long it was going to be and she snickered and said, "Well you haven't been here 8 hours yet!"  I called my doctor at home -- we had a doctor see us in about 5 minutes and the nurse was fired.

After that I called my doctor BEFORE we went in and we didn't have a problem getting in immediatly. It's a crying shame what's happened to EMERGENCY ROOMS! Someone needs to look up the definition of EMERGENCY!

Hugs BD

KingOfPain wrote on Jul 7^th, 2008 at 6:45pm:


I second that emotion.


with warm regards,
Tony

Here's a couple of news article

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