Around here, even if you go in with chest pains and a known cardiac condition you end up sitting in the waiting room. It has happened to me and to Hubby. When he had his heart attach on Thanksgiving day he sat in the waiting room for over an hour before they took him to the back. Once they got him to the back and got his labs back they had him in CCU within 15 minutes.
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Speaking of ERs. I'm in the waiting room now with a friend of my mother's. They didn't move very fast at first because she seems like she's okay but after they took her blood sugar they alternated between a flurry of motion and amazement that she is still standing with a blood sugar of 30.At the conclusion of an Irish wedding, the priest said "Everybody please hug the person who has made your life worth living. The bartender was nearly crushed to death.
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Quoth FormerCallingCardRep View PostAround here, even if you go in with chest pains and a known cardiac condition you end up sitting in the waiting room. It has happened to me and to Hubby. When he had his heart attach on Thanksgiving day he sat in the waiting room for over an hour before they took him to the back. Once they got him to the back and got his labs back they had him in CCU within 15 minutes.
I hope hubby's ok now
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The one and only time I was in the ER, my dr. told me to meet him there (pancreatitis from an ERCP) ugh. It was a friday night, so packed, and i walk in with my puke basin and go up to the traige desk. The nurse looked at me, and said, you come with me, and took me back, where my dr. was waiting. But even after he decided to admit me, and I had gotten some demerol, I had to lie on a stretcher in the corner, since all rooms were full, until they found me a bed. I was ok; drifting in and out. I'm thinking maybe they didn't want me puking my brains out in the waiting room, since you know someone else would have been sick too...
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Quoth Catwoman2965 View PostThe one and only time I was in the ER, my dr. told me to meet him there (pancreatitis from an ERCP) ugh. It was a friday night, so packed, and i walk in with my puke basin and go up to the traige desk. The nurse looked at me, and said, you come with me, and took me back, where my dr. was waiting. But even after he decided to admit me, and I had gotten some demerol, I had to lie on a stretcher in the corner, since all rooms were full, until they found me a bed. I was ok; drifting in and out. I'm thinking maybe they didn't want me puking my brains out in the waiting room, since you know someone else would have been sick too...
They seem surprised when we explain that unless their doctor is here or decided to make them a direct admission, they have to wait and be seen with the masses. Unfortunately, puking in the waiting room is a normal occurance that totally skeeves people out. Im glad you got taken care of though. It also amuses me when people ask for demerol. We haven't carried it in a long time.
Also, pancreatitis from an ERCP? Im sorry that happened. One of the main reasons I refuse to get one. I dont want to risk it.
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Quoth Amina516 View PostToo many times we get doctors who send in their patients and DONT bother to tell them that they will meet them or that they want them to have an ER workup for whatever reason.
Also, Jazzy has been learning about emergency workers at school lately - the biggest point that she's been discussing at home has been about what is and isn't important enough for an ambulance. Rugz had trouble not laughing when I asked about splinters.Don't tempt pixies, it never ends well.
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Quoth Mishi View Post... Rugz had trouble not laughing when I asked about splinters.I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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Quoth kpzra View PostEven being brought in in an ambulance doesn't guarantee you won't be dumped into the waiting room. More than once we did that. It was quite amusing to hear the patient bitch that they thought they would get seen sooner.
Don't see that it worked any.
Quoth Amina516 View PostThere's a dark place in my heart that smiles when I see an ambulance assigned to triage.
These are the people that call ambulance for a stubbed toe, a cold and other random, nonemergent things.
Quoth Amayis View Post...Like, really? O.o
I've been in the waiting room with a fairly large wound in my wrist needing stitches and it still took them 45 minutes to take me back.
Quoth FormerCallingCardRep View PostAround here, even if you go in with chest pains and a known cardiac condition you end up sitting in the waiting room. It has happened to me and to Hubby. When he had his heart attach on Thanksgiving day he sat in the waiting room for over an hour before they took him to the back. Once they got him to the back and got his labs back they had him in CCU within 15 minutes.
Quoth Catwoman2965 View PostThe one and only time I was in the ER, my dr. told me to meet him there (pancreatitis from an ERCP) ugh. It was a friday night, so packed, and i walk in with my puke basin and go up to the traige desk. The nurse looked at me, and said, you come with me, and took me back, where my dr. was waiting.
Abdominal pain is another high priority complaint, and I try to get them back as quick as possible because there are so many potentially urgent surgical reasons for abdominal pain. But I once spent 5 hours in an ER waiting room myself once (an ER where I used to work, ironically) because it was so busy with serious ambulance cases puking my guts up the whole time. I was very dehydrated when they finally got me back. Evil Empryss was getting pretty upset about the delays, and I was certainly frustrated but I knew the problem was either a stomach bug or a bad flare up of my Irritable Bowel Syndrome (lands me in the ER once every couple of years with intractable pain, nausea, and vomiting).They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.
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