As I type this ...

[CC27]

1StrongBlackMan (16,463 posts)   Mon Jan 12, 2015, 03:56 PM

As I type this ...

I'm in the ED with Mrs. 1SBM ...actually a second ER.

Mrs. 1SBM has had a headache for the past couple of days. We've been monitoring her BP. Yesterday it spiked to 188/110, before going back to normal. Today it spiked to 190. So off to the ER we go.

We'll see what's up with her; but, her condition is not what this is about ... at the 1st ER, was packed. We waited about an hour (a BP level of 180+ is stroke level; but again, this isn't about my wife). One of the people waiting was clearly in discomfort ... groaning loudly and writhing in pain. He was there before we arrived so who knows how long he had been waiting.

Then, he suddenly began vomiting violently into a bucket ... I would have thought someone on the staff would have noticed and took some kind of action ... nope. After maybe 5 minutes (maybe less ... time is hard to judge when witnessing stuff like that), he fell over onto the floor vomiting still.

Still no one on the staff moved. It wasn't until I went up to the desk and informed them the guy was on the floor in what appeared to be severe distress, did the nurse even look up.

She called someone who sauntered to her desk, then sauntered over to the guy, along with a male attendant. Thy picked the guy up, put him in a wheelchair and disappeared, leaving him in the waiting area.

Mrs. 1SBM and I waited another 10 minutes before leaving for the ER "in our neighborhood" ... the guy was still unattended to when we left.

The experience has left me disgusted ... the staff at that ER, was clearly unconcerned.

Our neighborhood? Racist! 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/118711858

[GOBUCKS]

Mon Jan 12, 2015, 03:56 PM
1StrongBlackMan (16,463 posts)

As I type this ...
I'm in the ED with Mrs. 1SBM ...actually a second ER.

Nice bouncy, Blackie.

Maybe the sick guy was on democrat insurance.

[franksolich]

Nice bouncy, Blackie.

Maybe the sick guy was on democrat insurance.

My guess is that he's a habitual there--the taxpayers, not him, are picking up the tab anyway--and so the staff's already intimately acquainted with what ails him. 

[GOBUCKS]

One of the people waiting was clearly in discomfort ... groaning loudly and writhing in pain.

Then, he suddenly began vomiting violently into a bucket ...  After maybe 5 minutes (maybe less ... time is hard to judge when witnessing stuff like that), he fell over onto the floor vomiting still.

That's just a routine evening in the Pitt household.

[thundley4]

I have always had a "good experience" with emergency rooms, never waited more than a couple of minutes. But maybe that is because I only go when it is an emergency.

[delilahmused]

Of course this couldn't possibly be because there's a shortage of doctors thanks to 0bamacare.

Cindie

[thundley4]

Of course this couldn't possibly be because there's a shortage of doctors thanks to 0bamacare.

Cindie

They were warned that ERs would be hard hit. When you give a bunch of people insurance, but it's insurance that a lot of doctors won't take, like medicaid, then those new people are going to hit the ER for every little thing. Even more so than they use to without coverage.

[Chris_]

They were warned that ERs would be hard hit. When you give a bunch of people insurance, but it's insurance that a lot of doctors won't take, like medicaid, then those new people are going to hit the ER for every little thing. Even more so than they use to without coverage.

But we were told Obamacare would reduce the strain on emergency rooms.   

[Carl]

The only chance of this bouncy having any truth to it would be if it was in an urban,leftist hell hole where  the most pressing needs are Obamaites in the middle of a drug overdose or shot/stabbed up from a gang fight.

[thundley4]

But we were told Obamacare would reduce the strain on emergency rooms.   

Like everything else we were told about Obamacare, that was also a lie.

[Chris_]

Like everything else we were told about Obamacare, that was also a lie.

Exactly, yet these idiots get the vapors when they find out that they've been lied to.

[obumazombie]

I hope he (1SBM) runs hard afoul of HIPPA laws.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I hope he (1SBM) runs hard afoul of HIPPA laws.

Nah.  He's not a care provider or involved in health service for the guy who with the technicolor yawn, and even if he was, he didn't say anything that would identify the guy by name or other unique identifier.

[98ZJUSMC]

1StrongBlackMan (16,463 posts)   Mon Jan 12, 2015, 03:56 PM
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The experience has left me disgusted ... the staff at that ER, was clearly unconcerned.

Oh, c'mon, Slappy.  You can do better than that. 

Starts with a "r" ...... c'mon, you can do it.

[98ZJUSMC]

The only chance of this bouncy having any truth to it would be if it was in an urban,leftist hell hole where  the most pressing needs are Obamaites in the middle of a drug overdose or shot/stabbed up from a gang fight.

Slappy may have just ... "neglected" to fill that part into his bouncy.

[Chris_]

1StrongBlackMan (16,463 posts)   Mon Jan 12, 2015, 03:56 PM
(....)
The experience has left me disgusted ... the staff at that ER, was clearly unconcerned.

And you expected better treatment once the government took over.  How cute. 

I'm guessing this genius wasn't around during the Soviet days of bread lines and vodka shortages.

[obumazombie]

Nah.  He's not a care provider or involved in health service for the guy who with the technicolor yawn, and even if he was, he didn't say anything that would identify the guy by name or other unique identifier.

Any unauthorized disclosure of patient information can be a violation of HIPPA.
Furthermore, even if no names or descriptions are mentioned, if enough information is relayed where the patient can be identified, that also would be considered a HIPPA violation.
All this is to my knowledge of HIPPA which is extensive but not on the level of an attorney.

[DumbAss Tanker]

For the most part it applies to disclosures from medical records or patient communications, not a layman noticing obvious externalities.

[HawkHogan]

Weird, whenever I have had to use the emergency room, I was seen almost immediately.  And I get my insurance through my school (since Obamacare requires me to get insurance as a student now), so it's not really a good plan.

[Gina]

My guess is that he's a habitual there--the taxpayers, not him, are picking up the tab anyway--and so the staff's already intimately acquainted with what ails him.

Yes, it does kinda sound like someone going through some drug withdrawals. Maybe they knew him well.  Quit trying to do other people's jobs.   

[delilahmused]

I don't even think the other patients exist or he's practicing extreme exaggeration. If someone vomits excessively and falls on the floor they're not going to ignore it. Someone does sit at the desk 90% of the time. I get strep throat a lot and tend to wait longer than I should to get antibiotics which has meant a trip to the emergency room and I had boys, one of whom never let an opportunity to break one of his bones or get a gash in his head in his head to go to waste. People who aren't critical usually have to wait their turn. Those who are seriously ill get helped right away, as do babies & children. This is how it should be.

Cindie

[GOBUCKS]

If someone vomits excessively and falls on the floor they're not going to ignore it.

Alcoholic DUmmy Will Pitt does that every night at home.

His drunken mother and his tattooed bride both ignore it.

[CC27]

Alcoholic DUmmy Will Pitt does that every night at home.

His drunken mother and his tattooed bride both ignore it.

He is married? I must have forgot about that. And i don't needs pics. haha

[Chris_]

He is married? I must have forgot about that. And i don't needs pics. haha

No, you definitely don't want those.

[CC27]

No, you definitely don't want those.

They could use Pitt family photos for birth control ads.