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Okay, well, I'm about fed up! Maybe someone on here can help me out...as to what to do. I have been having very bad experiences with the local hospital that need to be addressed but I seem to be getting the proverbial "run around" I don't go to the hospital often, even for "emergencies" But starting with the birth of my son last year I've been in and out pretty regularly and let me tell you...they are about the most incompetent bunch ever! Just a brief description of my "problems"...starting with the birth of my son...
They sent me home, for a 24hr test, even though initial tests showed I could be VERY ill. When I returned the following day, when the doctor finally got to me, he said "we had a woman that we sent home yesterday show up in the ER today having seizures, we thought it was you" (I kid you not) Due to the delay in treatment for this problem the whole birthing process of my first child was ruined and my health was comprompised as well as my unborn sons
Flash forward, pregnant with my second child (about 9 weeks) and I start having bad stomach pains. They decide to send me for an ultrasound to see what the problem is. I need a full bladder for this ultrasound. After three hours in triage, alone, I finally ring a bell to see what the hold up is. I'm told "we forgot about you" (seriously) and instead of getting to fill my bladder the "old fashioned way" I have to have a catheter (sp?) put in and have it filled externally which was quite painful
Flash forward again, I'm having gallbladder attacks. After three, the fourth one (I didn't know what was happening at the time) sends me to the hospital. I was admitted...in less than 24hrs I see about 4 doctors and too many nurses. Several of the nurses, I would ring, as a question...they'd tell me "let me go check" and just simply would not return. After this happening about four times I flipped out. Repeated my question (can I have some solid food) to the RN and explained that I'd asked several nurses and they'd all left and not returned over the course of several hours. After leaving the room she gets on the phone (which I can hear by the way) and starts telling the person on the other line that I won't listen and that I need clear liquids only and that I do not get it...at this point I really flipped out. When she came back (finally one of them returns) I rudely explained that I have no problem being on a liquid diet but would at least like people to give me an answer when the tell me that they are going to get one, rather than leaving and not returning. At this particular stay, I also had a ring that wasn't answered at all!
SOOO...am sent home with instructions to meet with my surgeon or go to the ER if I have another attack before then. SO, I do have another attack...go to the ER, it just so happens, on the same day I'm to meet with my surgeon! They gave me pain meds which made me really loopy (they usually do) and some nausea medication. In the meantime my mother goes to call the surgeon to see what she wants me to do. While my mother is out, I get really sick...do not have a place to vomit and am too loopy to move yet. I go to ring for help...where's my call bell? On the wall about 4 feet from the bed! They'd forgotten to give me it! SO, I hold back the vomit. My mother comes back and tells me that the surgeon (who's right next door to the hospital) has bumped my appointment and that she wants me to stay in the hospital until then (2hrs away) Well...the hospital doctor comes shortly after and asks how I'm doing. I tell him that the pain is gone but that I feel very sick, like I may vomit. He goes out...comes back and tells me that I'm being discharged and to go to my appointment in 2hrs at the surgeons! He promptly leaves. I tell my mother that I cannot walk to the car and to get a wheelchair from the RN...my mother explains to the RN that I cannot walk and need a chair to get to the car...she brings a chair and leaves. Didn't even lock the chair...didn't assist me to get in...nothing! So, my mother gets me in the chair and to the car...over to my surgeons. Goes into the office and asks for another chair and explains why. The surgeon is mad and tells my mother to take me back to the hospital and have them stabilize me! When I get back over there, the same doctor that discharged me tells me that I said I was fine or he wouldn't have discharged me!
SOOOO...sorry for the long rant but I need help! I'm only 22yrs old and not sure where to turn. All these bad experiences are really turning me off to getting medical treatment. Furthermore, my father died this April because he refused to go to a hospital AND worst of all I'm beginning to wonder if my poor treatment is because of the type of insurance I have (cheap)
Any suggestions?
They sent me home, for a 24hr test, even though initial tests showed I could be VERY ill. When I returned the following day, when the doctor finally got to me, he said "we had a woman that we sent home yesterday show up in the ER today having seizures, we thought it was you" (I kid you not) Due to the delay in treatment for this problem the whole birthing process of my first child was ruined and my health was comprompised as well as my unborn sons
Flash forward, pregnant with my second child (about 9 weeks) and I start having bad stomach pains. They decide to send me for an ultrasound to see what the problem is. I need a full bladder for this ultrasound. After three hours in triage, alone, I finally ring a bell to see what the hold up is. I'm told "we forgot about you" (seriously) and instead of getting to fill my bladder the "old fashioned way" I have to have a catheter (sp?) put in and have it filled externally which was quite painful
Flash forward again, I'm having gallbladder attacks. After three, the fourth one (I didn't know what was happening at the time) sends me to the hospital. I was admitted...in less than 24hrs I see about 4 doctors and too many nurses. Several of the nurses, I would ring, as a question...they'd tell me "let me go check" and just simply would not return. After this happening about four times I flipped out. Repeated my question (can I have some solid food) to the RN and explained that I'd asked several nurses and they'd all left and not returned over the course of several hours. After leaving the room she gets on the phone (which I can hear by the way) and starts telling the person on the other line that I won't listen and that I need clear liquids only and that I do not get it...at this point I really flipped out. When she came back (finally one of them returns) I rudely explained that I have no problem being on a liquid diet but would at least like people to give me an answer when the tell me that they are going to get one, rather than leaving and not returning. At this particular stay, I also had a ring that wasn't answered at all!
SOOO...am sent home with instructions to meet with my surgeon or go to the ER if I have another attack before then. SO, I do have another attack...go to the ER, it just so happens, on the same day I'm to meet with my surgeon! They gave me pain meds which made me really loopy (they usually do) and some nausea medication. In the meantime my mother goes to call the surgeon to see what she wants me to do. While my mother is out, I get really sick...do not have a place to vomit and am too loopy to move yet. I go to ring for help...where's my call bell? On the wall about 4 feet from the bed! They'd forgotten to give me it! SO, I hold back the vomit. My mother comes back and tells me that the surgeon (who's right next door to the hospital) has bumped my appointment and that she wants me to stay in the hospital until then (2hrs away) Well...the hospital doctor comes shortly after and asks how I'm doing. I tell him that the pain is gone but that I feel very sick, like I may vomit. He goes out...comes back and tells me that I'm being discharged and to go to my appointment in 2hrs at the surgeons! He promptly leaves. I tell my mother that I cannot walk to the car and to get a wheelchair from the RN...my mother explains to the RN that I cannot walk and need a chair to get to the car...she brings a chair and leaves. Didn't even lock the chair...didn't assist me to get in...nothing! So, my mother gets me in the chair and to the car...over to my surgeons. Goes into the office and asks for another chair and explains why. The surgeon is mad and tells my mother to take me back to the hospital and have them stabilize me! When I get back over there, the same doctor that discharged me tells me that I said I was fine or he wouldn't have discharged me!
SOOOO...sorry for the long rant but I need help! I'm only 22yrs old and not sure where to turn. All these bad experiences are really turning me off to getting medical treatment. Furthermore, my father died this April because he refused to go to a hospital AND worst of all I'm beginning to wonder if my poor treatment is because of the type of insurance I have (cheap)
Any suggestions?
