My 20-year-old daughter has been through months of pain due to a chronic condition…but you, little miss south end who wants to park herself in the ER with your pricey laptop and phone friends to complain about how long you have to wait to get refilled your prescription to maintain your effing high level of SELF-ABSORPTION…you slow-down the long queue to be seen all because you want to stick your husband with the kids you only had as lawn ornaments for all of Sunday so you can sit in the ER playing your clickety-click computer game, munching your pricey crackers and drinking your smoothie. I should probably add more profane words to get this in print so you might see it. To all of you who waste time in the ER with your stupid shit that can wait, I wish you half the pain my daughter has experienced, you could barely take that, you jerks! —Tired of Having Idiots Near Kid
This article appears in Sep 6-12, 2012.
I’m surprised you’re not also yelling at aged edna in the corner who decided to get checked out because she has a slight cough… or the old-timer with the sniffles.
Kinda sounds like you just really hated this bitch for how she was acting as much if not more than why she was there in the first place.
You go to an ER to get a perscription refilled? Sounds like a valid bitch to me. The ER is for people who need IMMEDIATE medical attention hence the term EMERGENCY. Someone playing games on a laptop and munching crackers doesn’t scream “I need help!”.
More it screams “I’m using the public health system to do something I could do when my doctor’s office opens next week”. Thank God there’s triage and Tiffany doesn’t get ahead of a heart attack victim.
OB… thats why there is a triage station !
Emergency rooms work on a priority basis.
Not a first come first serve basis.
The gal coming in with the heart attack goes to the head of the line, while the guy suffering with a cut hand , who definately needs stitches, but isn’t bleeding out & who has been there for 2+ hours can still wait !
Being in pain wouldn’t move you ahead of a heart attack, or someone spurting arterial blood etc. So calm the fuck down & wait your turn !
It sounds like chickie who needed meds, knew she would be facing a long wait & came prepared…. nothing wrong with being prepared !
an emergency room is just that, for something bad that needs tending quick. not for a sniffle or an owwie, or booboo. some people make me want to twist their heads off, then they would have a real reason for wasting everyone’s time.
chronic care at an ER sounds just as fucked up
Hub-Unit had all the symptoms of a stroke a few years back and he was made to wait 9 hours while a pack of old nuns from the Mount St. Vincent Crowhouse (average age: 136)shuffled in before him even though they arrived 4 hours after he did. I almost completed the punch line for ‘what’s black and white and red all over’? TTFN bitchslapping out some unhappy memories from elementary school.
stupid penguins grr
Here’s a story for ya…
I’m sitting in the ER after I flipped my tractor trailer during White Juan. I’m all gimped up, broken ribs and purple from my neck to my toes on my left side, and was told during triage that they would not be giving me any pain killers, as the doctor needs to know where it hurts. After 9 hours of sitting, writhing in pain I overhear a conversation behind the curtain beside me… It’s a snot nosed little shit from Ontario and her mother. The little twit broke her ankle and already had the cast on for three weeks, and wants it removed so she can go out with her friends for February break (reading week) in Ontario. This conversation goes on with the doctor advising the two of them against the removal as the bone has not fully healed yet for at least 15-20 mins where the mother and the idiot daughter have to sign a waiver relinquishing any responsibility from the hospital.
At this point I got up, walked out to the nurses station, asked when I would be seeing a doctor, relayed what I heard and asked about why triage protocol was not being followed. I was told very sharply that what goes on behind a curtain is priveleged information, and if I wanted to see a doctor to remain in my seat until my name was called. I promptly gave her my phone number and told her to give me a call when it was convenient for the doctor to see me, and went home never to return. I went to my doctor the next day and scheduled an xray.
The only way you will get me in the emergency room at this hack job of a hospital is if I’m drug there by the paramedics.
This past easter my dad went in by ambulance. He still waited THIRTEEN HOURS before they clued in that he was in septic shock. He was in a room, yes, but the doctors were all “eh probably has the flu” until they saw his ankle (apparently the gibberish he was speaking because it couldn’t form a sentence wasn’t an indication that he was very sick). Once they put two and two together, he was in emergency surgery then the ICU. He spent the next month in the MICU and another 4.5 months getting IV antibiotics daily at home.
I get that they’re busy, but seriously.
Tip: the best way to get into the ER to be seen is to go in by ambulance.
I don’t often agree with Petty K
But we have some really great paramedics in our Province. (Personal experiences talking here)
IF they show up at a hospital & say they have a priority…. Nurses & Doctors take notice.
Which is probably why ambulance patients get quicker attention, but when I had a MI … I walked s l o w l y into an emergency room , I went to the head of the line …. actually I never got out of the Triage station, they put me on a stretcher & took me directly into a room where I believe some secret trap doors opened & out popped 2 nurses & a doctor ! Before I knew what had happened or where they came from I had an IV in, & one was shooting drugs into me to get my heart rate down from 200 + beats a minute to something a bit more sedate .
These days being taken to ER via an ambulance means shit.Unless your a big shot.
I’ve spent some time in Emergency as both a walk-in and an Ambulance case. Personally, I haven’t had an issue with the priority of injuries and the wait discrepencies. If it isn’t immediately life threatening, you can wait. Sadly though, that wait can be brutal!
Ummm… they triage people at the ER. Your daughter would get in based on that, not the number in which she arrives…
brutal indeed… the 4 hours it took to see whether my ankle was actually broken or not was fairly agonizing. Still, I don’t think it’d hold a candle to harper’s mishap.
For the amount they like to push out drugs in that place, you’d think there were a dealer or two in the crowd to help people out…
here in small town ON our ER is all about welfare mothas and their sickly spawn with malnutrition clogging up the system …