aww poor bubba glad hes ok ,,

the system here isnt that great either i have to say ,, i was rushed in with an expectant rupture of my apendex..

eg ,, flatmate called the ambulance at about 1am as i couldnt move and was curled up on the floor not knowing what was wrong with me ,, i didnt make a big deal of this but i knew things wernt great  when no meds panadole aspro would take the pain away ..

the ambulance drivers knew what was wrong right away and gave me meds to breath in and as soon as we got to the emergency department they told the staff there what they though was wrong with me

( i was in my daggy pjs also )

the first thing they has asked me was i on drugs and comming down off it ,,flat mate no way shes in pain and dosent do drugs at all and never has

they left me in observation and just walked away not doing anything .. the pain was soo severe i felt like i just wanted to die then take any more of this pain ,,

again i was asked an hour later do i take drugs i didnt understand as to why i was yet asked this again ,, and again said NO im in pain please what is wrong with me help me

( my blood presure had dropped very low and now i had a high temp ,, still was left in pain with no one bothering to even examine me ,, all they did do was ask me if i was comming off drugs many times and took my blood presure now and then ..

my flat mate had called up the hospital a few hours later to see how i was ,, they asked her again if i was on anything ,, she got angry and said no and why are you again asking this and whats going on with me ,,,

there where people in all the other beds also waiting to see docs and one older lady kept comming to me as she saw the pain i was in and she also got very angry with the doctors cause i had been left ..

it wasnt till 3pm that afternoon that they had decided to take me for x-rays and give me morphine .. thats 14 hours after i was ammited by the ambos

and i had crawled on the floor and tackled a doc that was passing in tears asking for help thats when they decided to even take any notice of me ..

they still after the x-rays couldnt find what was wrong but then decided to just put me in thetre to open me up to take a look

i was soo scared all alone and no one talking to me but they where all rude to me ..

i woke up in recovery it was then they said to me that my apendix leaked thougout my body , that i was very lucky it didnt just out right burst .. ( their fault ) and they had to wash out all my insides also ,, my left side cause of this was paralised .. i had to learn to use it again though physio

all they where excited about is that i was the first one to have had key hole surgery for this ..

to cutt his very long story short i also was very ill cause they had left this way too long and was riddled with infection and now fluid on my lungs ...all this could of been avoided if they has only listened to me and my flatmate and the ambos in the first place ....

i could go on about all my experiences in the hospital not all good many bad also leading to my first born dieing cause again they never listened to me

i now speak out and am very loud about this  they have made many mistakes with me and my family .. big voices are amust

 

Puts the NHS in perspective.

First things first, glad to hear JB is ok.  Poor little love.  And thank goodness for the skin glue.  Wonderful stuff that is!

As for the hospital, well, I have heard things about SV ER.  Amazing that people would drive to Tucson to go to the hospital, but you can understand why.  Scary things.

I am appalled to hear about your treatment and that of the other patients.  But, will let you in on what I know as a nurse...

As for the woman with chest pain, it is standard procedure to ask where the pain is.  The pain can be indicative of differing things based on where it is located.  And with women, the symptoms of a heart attach are often vague.  So, hoping that the doctor was following protocol, that could explain that.

As for the patient with the oxygen, who knows who screwed up there.  Or, maybe they were giving the patient a trial without oxygen...maybe he is a known patient that thinks he needs O2 and they just wanted to do a check to see how he was going without it?

Internal bleeding, well, I don't have an answer there.  But, I am quite surprised that if she in fact had internal bleeding that she was allowed to leave the hospital.  Makes me wonder how she knew she had bleeding before she was even seen.  And if she left after being diagnosed because of a long wait, then she most certainly would have left AMA or against medical advise, I guarantee if they had diagnosed her, they wouldn't have let her leave.

And last but not least, the open beds.  Well, there is a well known nursing shortage in the US (and all over the world) and if they don't have the nurses to care for the patients in those 2 beds, then they can't use them.  And for the staff milling about, may not have been nursing staff but techs, admin, and other non-medical staff.

And, please don't think I take offense to what you have said.  If I were in your shoes, I am sure I would have felt the same!  I am just offering some other situations you may not have known to think of in relation to what you have seen in the ER. 

Take care Lorna and JB!

Angela

Hi
Wouldn't want to have a real emergency would you
You would die first before you got seen
Can just imagine a car crash and how they would cope. 
Spose if they make you wait long enough like the lady with the bleeding you go home..one less patient to deal with
Can just imagine that poor lady with internal bleeding she could bleed to death before someone saw her. 
Poor bugger on oxygen...bit too late if he couldn't breathe hey
This is beyond a joke
Spose the longer you wait the less chance of staying if you aren't really ill or hurt...would rule out the hypochondriacs that go see the doctors for nothing hey.
This needs to be reported.  Your son could have had concussion or anything and they don't care..it's wrong Hope you find somewhere better to go if he needs medical help again
Hugs
Luv Deb

i'm so glad your little man is now napping and that they were able to glue the gash instead of stitching it,

as for the disgusting er treatment you received if it was me i would be putting in a complaint about it, are you still thinking of working there?

hugs and kisses

thats no good at all,. and i really feel for the doctors as well., as recently had my hubby at the hospital with a gallstone, and this poor doctor had a waiting room full and had done 16 hours work., so i personally dont blame the doctors,its the bllody red tape and burecratic govenments fault, as they would rather spend money on footy then our hospitals....'

Hope your son gets better soon,  and you can get to your doctors appt as well...

take care
love cazza

That is terrible!  I am so glad he's okay despite the awful care.