my68camaro
Registered
So I took my son (he's 13) to the emergency room last night. He was playing on the trampoline at my mother in laws house and jumped off of it and landed on a piece of metal cutting himself. Well we decided he needs stiches so we took him to our local emergency room I dropped him and my wife off at 730 and went to run an errand. My wife calls me at 750 asking if I had our insurance card on me so stop in to give it to her on my way home to drop off our daughters (17 and 15). I tell my wife ill be back shortly at 815 im back. At 9pm I ask if my son is going to be seen soon or should I find a differrent hospital because during the time i have been there 2 people showed up after us and were seen and left. the lady in the reception area says a couple ambulances have come and gone while we were waiting so.. me being the a$$ I am asked if I should go into the parking lot and call the ambulance for a ride in. she laughs and says no shouldnt be too much longer. At that point a nurse opens the door and called another lady who showed up after us back the lady looks at her and says they have been here longer pointing to my wife and son the nurse then calls my sons name we go in and she calls another name 3 times.. after the 3rd time I say they might have left because they were tired of waiting (at this time 3 people have walked out on their way to another hospital) the nurse had the audacity to look at me and say "I dont want to hear that from you we treat critically ill paitents first" me being the a$$ I am look at her and ask "since when does a 7 yr old putting a rock in his ear make him more critical than someone who is bleeding and in need of stiches" her reply was "thats not what I said" so I told her point blank because now im pissed "hold on that is exactly what you just said to me word for word" she told me she didnt need to explain herself to me and put us in a room and she walks away only to come back in 2 minutes later and say that the guy didnt leave and I should mind my own business or she was going to throw me out into that waiting room i looked at her and said go ahead and she stormed off
NOW WTF I understand triage (in a hospital)" the principle or practice of sorting emergency patients into categories of priority for treatment" ) as I have some basic military medical trainging but a pebble before stiches ??....looks like im going to drive to a different hospital 16 + miles away before I go back to that sh!%hole.... boy im glad my property taxes pay for that place fyi I live in a smaller town and this is a Rant I know they might have been busy with more severe cases but still a pebble over stiches good job Doc ...
NOW WTF I understand triage (in a hospital)" the principle or practice of sorting emergency patients into categories of priority for treatment" ) as I have some basic military medical trainging but a pebble before stiches ??....looks like im going to drive to a different hospital 16 + miles away before I go back to that sh!%hole.... boy im glad my property taxes pay for that place fyi I live in a smaller town and this is a Rant I know they might have been busy with more severe cases but still a pebble over stiches good job Doc ...
