DU: Dummie Tries to Warn Other Dummies About Wal-Mart Eye Center

[Traveshamockery]

............and hilarity ensues. 

 

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redirish28  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) 
Thu Feb-26-09 08:08 PM

Another Wal-Mart warning....This is about the eye center
   
My neighbor just told my wife what happened to her at Wal-Mart earlier today.

Her son came home at 5pm was doing an after school activity so he didn't get home til 5 and she saw his eye which was swollen and a mark on the bridge of his nose.

She was concerned about injury to the eye and wanted him to get checked out but being 5pm most doctors are gone for the day. So she rushed him up to Wal-Mart because the doctor was still there. Gives Wal-mart the insurance card (he is covered by her ex-husband) and she is told the insurance covers everything.

Doctor examines the boy than puts drops in his eyes to get a better look. Doctor turns to her and says "Oh, it's going to be $60 dollars now".

She upset that first she was told EVERYTHING was covered by the insurance than told she needs to pay $60 dollars. Then she get the receipt and on the receipt the charge is listed as removal of forgeign object. The mother was in with the son the whole time and nothing was removed from his eye there was nothing there and the mother used to be a nurse.

tangent90  (81 posts) Thu Feb-26-09 08:11 PM
Response to Original message
2. Mom was a nurse and didn't know how to get something out of a kid's eye?
   
Yeah, right...

TexasProgresive (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 08:59 PM
Response to Reply #2
10. Can't you read - nothing in the eye
   
and just how would a nurse remove a foreign object from the eye with out the dyes, optics, lights and instruments to do so without causing further damage to the eye.

What planet are you from?

   
 

Heddi Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Thu Feb-26-09 09:47 PM
Response to Reply #10
40. Uh, you don't need dyes, optics, lights, and instruments to remove a simple foreign object
   
Many foreign objects (such as dust, etc) can be removed safely with a q-tip. I'm a nurse and I know this.

I'm glad your friend isn't a nurse anymore. She sounds like a moron. WHo takes their child to WALMART instead of the ED, after-hour MD care...if she had insurance, call the GP and go to wherever they have after-hours clinic, or wherever they refer you to....not Walmart....shit.

 

Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Thu Feb-26-09 08:14 PM
Response to Original message
3. If you go to Wal-Mart for medical care....
   
Ah, well...

If she had ins (AND was a nurse), why not an urgent care center or ER?

   
 

redirish28 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Thu Feb-26-09 08:19 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. I don't think we have urgent care in PA or at least here and well the
   
ER in our town you only want to go to if you are close to death and then you hope for the best. She was thinking get to an eye doctor/specialists instead of waiting around the waiting room for 4 hours (which is average in our town)

   
 

moc Donating Member (1000+ posts)    Thu Feb-26-09 08:23 PM
Response to Reply #6
8. Honestly, I can't believe your friend is a nurse and thinks that an optometrist is the right
   
person to treat a suspected eye injury.

   
 

redirish28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) 
Thu Feb-26-09 08:26 PM
Response to Reply #8
9. She was a nurse until she was injured.

   

Take it back, Dummie!   
 

Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Thu Feb-26-09 09:05 PM
Response to Reply #9
11. And this injury knocked out all her former knowledge, skills, and
   
common sense?

I think a wait at your local ER would be better than a Walmart employee. But hey, that's just me.

   
 

redirish28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) 
Thu Feb-26-09 09:11 PM
Response to Reply #11
13. THAT IS JUST UNCALLED FOR!!!!
   
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 09:14 PM by redirish28
YOU ARE EXTREMELY INSULTING!

I tell you this stuff as a warning and you want to insult a good friend of mine for taking her son to a eye specialist!


THIS PLACE ISN"T WORTH MY TIME ANY MORE

   
 

fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts)    
Thu Feb-26-09 09:14 PM
Response to Reply #13
14. sorry, but lol
   
its either ophthalmologist, or optometrist

'optermoligist' I'm sorry, thats funny

   

A dummie with a sense of humor:

MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Thu Feb-26-09 09:47 PM
Response to Reply #13
38. Point us to the news story that covered this--because this is an Eye Team (pun intended)
   
Eyewitness News type expose story. Any news team would love to sink their teeth into this, especially if the victims have a receipt and a registered nurse as part of the tale.

Look, your story has some major holes in it--people are pointing them out. You're shooting the messengers, here, by yelling at them because they doubt your recounting of this event.

It's not "uncalled for" or insulting to point out gaps in logic, and your story is full of them. No offense, but it sounds like a dire urban legend type tale designed to crap on the easy target that is WALMART. Of course, those WALMART glasses makers are contractors--they're not part of the WALMART "family." WALMART would just call the guy a 'bad apple' if it were proven that they overcharged or mistreated a patient.

[AllosaursRus]

Uh, Moran! The optics centers in Wally World are CONTRACTORS! Idiot! WalMart is certainly not responsible for their business! Just like the Banks. Do ya think they would be responsible for overdrafts from customers who wrote hot checks to them from the bank occupying the space?

[BlueStateSaint]

Do ya think they would be responsible for overdrafts from customers who wrote hot checks to them from the bank occupying the space?

If the DUmmies have their way . . . yes.

[Carl]

Redirish effed up is all.
Had he added to his little story that the Doc was wearing a Palin 2012 button and while removing the object had told her that with socialized medicine she would be waiting for days to have a bureaucrat okay the procedure then he would have been a hero at the DUmp.

Someone needs to sticky the scripts over there to prevent this kind of tragic mistake.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Well, you don't see that too often - a Wal-Mart-hatin' story that's too stupid and far-fetched for even the DUmmies to buy!