So my best friend is in the hospital again with kidney stones this time. I was up at the hospital with her all day today as when the ER doctor admitted her he wanted her to have emergency surgery on the stones and her husband wasn't with her at the point I went up there and someone needed to be around in case she went in for surgery to tell them what she was allergic to.
At 3:30 the doctor finally comes around "Oh so you're the patient they called me about last night." Tells her they have a skeleton crew and he can't do surgery today, but he'll get to her in a day or 2 so she'll be admitted. Hours go by and she's still in ER overflow. We ask the nurse what's going on. Why is she not admitted yet? She gives us some kind of BS answer. We ask another nurse, we get that she's under observation. No the doctor said she was to be admitted. "That was not your admitting doctor, he was called in for consult."
"Can you PLEASE CALL MY DOCTOR AND GET BACK TO ME!!!"
Apparently no one had bothered to tell her doctor what the consulting doctor said, and he'd called in and asked for the nurse to read him the chart! To whoever that nurse is I give you a hearty ! You made my best friend cry when she was in a lot of pain.
Edit: I wasn't clear. The doctor called in to have the nurse read him the chart and she refused.
At 3:30 the doctor finally comes around "Oh so you're the patient they called me about last night." Tells her they have a skeleton crew and he can't do surgery today, but he'll get to her in a day or 2 so she'll be admitted. Hours go by and she's still in ER overflow. We ask the nurse what's going on. Why is she not admitted yet? She gives us some kind of BS answer. We ask another nurse, we get that she's under observation. No the doctor said she was to be admitted. "That was not your admitting doctor, he was called in for consult."
"Can you PLEASE CALL MY DOCTOR AND GET BACK TO ME!!!"
Apparently no one had bothered to tell her doctor what the consulting doctor said, and he'd called in and asked for the nurse to read him the chart! To whoever that nurse is I give you a hearty ! You made my best friend cry when she was in a lot of pain.
Edit: I wasn't clear. The doctor called in to have the nurse read him the chart and she refused.
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