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 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:35 pm
Check this out I went to the ER today and I was there from 7:30 am to 1:45 pm for xrays and a cat scan. Why does it takes a stupid hospital that long. Seriously, while I was there a lady came in and was there for like an hour and a half. When the Dr asked the nurse how long the lady was there for he told him and the Dr said to change the time to 12:30 instead of 10:30 due to it was too short of a treatment stay. Can anyone explain the long wait at ER's. Anyone wants to share their hospital experience. I have a lot of them pick a number.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:42 pm
I've never been in the hospital for anything before but I've visited people in the hospital many a times. Hospitals themselves makes me uneasy, for some reason.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:34 pm
ONly been to the ER twice, the first time I was admitted the second time I was was in there for about 5 1/2 hours.
The first time I went in for a stabbing pain on my side...the next day I had my gall bladder removed. I'm the second youngest female to have it removed at that hospital. I was 21.
And exactly 6 months after that I went to the ER for busting open my eyelid. I passed out at work and my glasses cut me. I got there a little after Noon, watched people who came in after me, with less serious problems, go in and out. I finally get my turn, and end up getting a CT scan making sure I didn't seriously hurt myself for falling on the concret floor, then I get what is basicly super-glue poured on my cut. The whole time i was there all I could think about was that I wanted McDonalds. lol
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:36 pm
If only it worked like the show ER, where you get rolled in on a stretcher straight into the OR, no questions asked. Oh, and good looking medical personas all around.
Hell, I'd settled for House. I'd like for doctors to show more interest in figuring out the problem. I've had problems with reactions on my feet during the summer. In 06 I had to get one of the blisters cut off at urgent care. The Dr. just supposed it was infected poison ivy, but later tests show there was nothing bacterial in the blister. No Dr. has ever tried to figure it out. So I have a mysterious skin thing during summers around my ankles and feet. Seriously, if this was House he'd insult me and pry into my sexual life, but at the end of the hour long show, he'd have a diagnosis.
Why ARE ERs so slow? When I worked in a hospital I was never in the ER section...
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:29 am
First time I was in the ER I don't know how long I was there as I was having an appendicitis and eventually admitted to have an appendectomy the same night/day. I was in 6th grade, too.
The second time I was in the ER was because of a broken and sprained fingers. I believe I waited (even though it seemed like an enternity) over 2 hours which is nothing now, but then it was.
The last time we were in the ER was for Daddy. I believe then we waited around for like at least 5 or 6 hours before everything was said and done. sweatdrop (like him being admitted and such)
EDIT! I voted for the wrong time, but then again I had two different answers. xd
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:20 am
The last time I was in the ER, I didn't have to wait that long, luckily. I was in there for a nose bleed. Not just a regular nose bleed, I had a bad case of the flu at the time, and I was blowing my nose so much that a capulary burst open (sp?) and I was gushing out blood non-stop. I was really freaking out because I couldn't get it to stop. I think I was in the waiting room for..30-45 minutes before a doctor saw me and they put me in one of those "rooms" with the curtains and I laid on the bed for about another half hour until the doctor decided to glue my capulary shut. It worked. smile
I guess I was lucky and it wasn't too busy that night. Six hours in the ER? Guh - that would feel so horrible. Waiting so long to be treated for something severe. sad
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:35 pm
Okay here's one I went to the ER for a bee sting from like 2 days before. Waited there for like 6 hours and had to get an IV done. INdiana Dr's didn't want to prescribe me the bee shots there due to it's not serious enough to get one. Well I got stung on my pointer finger and my whole hand swelled up and my eye started to swell shut. Needless to say they said it wasn't majore to get a bee sting kit yet. The 6 hour wait and IV treatment. Yes I"m a bleeder and when they put the IV needle in I gushed and squirted blood everywhere. Just for a bee sting. lol
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:46 pm
I think that the last time I was in for about 10 hours. I went in in the early morning and got out in the early evening. It wasn't a very fun time at all, and the reason I was there is a bit too personal to share....sowwy. sad They never figured out what exactly was wrong with me anyway...they never seem to. Kind of frustrating.
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:21 pm
Being 1. VERY klutzy, 2. the source of many a medical mystery that keep doctors in business and 3. having an extremely CRAP immune system I am WELL acquainted with waiting in ERs. Because the thing is, things usually happen after 11 at night.
Like Last night....
When I slipped on the ice going out to my car in my own dang driveway....
and now have a cast thing on my foot and can't walk. Yeah. STELLAR. gonk
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:14 am
hey another foot injury. That was the thing that started this thread. lol. I hope you doing better then me. sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:52 am
Several years ago I had a bad cold, so went to have things checked out. I was out in about 2 hours. Was not a long wait. That was the last time I had to go to the hospital for anything other than routine checks and such.
When I was young I had a real bad case of strep throat. Had to stay overnight with an IV. I was feeling too bad to care that time. I was better the next day.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:32 pm
I HATE HOSPITALS! I try very hard to not go to ERs because, one of these days, they will kill me (frankly I'm a little suprised they haven't much as they've tried)
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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:42 am
As an EMT, I don't stick around the hospital, I just drop you off.
The couple times I've actually been admitted to an ER, the first was when I was 8 and it's when I had a really bad asthma attack. I don't have any clue how long I was there. The second time was on a backboard after a car wreck, and it seemed like forever. I don't believe I was there more than an hour or so though.
When I broke my fingers, I just went to the doctor regular. Same with collarbone. As far as when I broke my ribs and when I broke my toe, I didn't even go to a doctor.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:47 pm
ok the reason ERs take so long
1 They have all sorts of levels of care from the "ouch I hurt my foot" to the shot 17 times.
2 Billing
3 Approval everything they do needs to be approved, most of the time
4 They dont want to get it wrong
5 They dont want to be right
6 INSURANCE!!!
7 Because there are alot of people there
8 Not enough nurses
9 Not enough beds
10 Not enough money to buy equipment
11Altough it is a science, it is not always that cut and dry
12 It takes time to come up with the answer
13 They would rather be slow and not miss anything
I could tell some stories about me being in the ER, but really I dont think I can type for that long. But I must say if you want fast service, all you have to do is get shot, the run you right in! LOL
Also I have had a few times bringing in a patient and they have told us to go to another hospital due to the patients insurance. That really sucks, but heck we can sometime use the pretty lights on the top of the ambulance
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:12 pm
Two years ago I fainted in class, so my mother took me to the ER where they did all sorts of tests on me but could not find anything that could have been the cause of my fainting. Two months later I find out, from a different doctor, that it was probably due to anemia. :
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