I had been spitting up blood for about 5 days. The last 2 I was throwing up blood. Finaly some coworkers encouraged me to go to the doctor. I went to the ER in Arlington. I waited about 7 hours, from morning till afternoon. Twice I threw up more blood. The second time I didn't make it to the bathroom quik enough. When a nurse saw the blood on the floor and my shirt they finally saw me. Turns out, 10 cups of coffee, pack of cigarettes, 6 advil, 6 beers, spicey food, and various other mood enhancers every day, combined with the stess of a competitive sales job, is not good for you. Whoda thought.
Hey, I don't give a **** about any of that. I don't like waiting. I don't care if the patient has a spike through his head and is also the President. I want to be in-and-out as it comes to my treatment-- stitch me up and send me on my way in the first 20 minutes or bear my futile wrath. Ah, well. It was basically an interest-free loan, for six months. Ha, ha, ****ing hospital, thanks for the loan.
That is absolutely ****ing hilarious!!! I keep picturing the billing department first looking at the $1 check then writing it on the deposit slip. HA HA HA!!! Not to get all "socialistic" on your asses, but has anyone thought that maybe the best way to eliviate the problems in ER is to find an affordable way to provide insurance for people so that they don't have to take a child with a runny nose to the ER just to get treatment? Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Actualy, in my opinion, the difference between a good doc and a bad doc is all in the bedside manner, especially for specialists. Surgeons are another matter, as they don't often have to talk while working . I used to go to a school with a REALLY good med school, and you could tell when the student center had Med School staff specialists, and when they had to find some poor slob who had to take the job to make ends meet based on whether they'd talk. Also, when I worked at Methodist Hospital, it was intresting how different departments had nurses with different temperments. It seemed that all the hot, goofy, sweet nurses, just out of nursing school gravitated to the OB/GYN wards, and all the nurses for the people that had chronic renal failure or chronic heart failure were the old battle-axes. These ladies had to put up with so much constant suffering that it aged them sooner or something. There was all sort of stuff like that. The ER guys, in the limited capacity that I dealt with them, I defined as "difficult to get a reaction." Kind of real easy-going types. I'd imagine that you could pick out the ER doctors at the Rockets games. They'd be the ones in the rich seats looking half-heartedly at the game as it went into triple OT.
lol 6 years ago (7 years old)I broke my left arm (compound fracture) Ambulance took 3 minutes (good service) Get to the hospital then sent strait to x-ray but before they start taking xrays a dr. comes up to me and starts twisting my arm w/bone sticking out that crazy guy wondered why i started screaming "your arm is broke" the doc said omfg i was in such pain 2 days later i had to get it operated on because the guy F'd it up so bad best part was that the costed me $0.00 oh yeah
